CD Cost Breakdown
Posted by: J.N. on 26 August 2013
The interesting thing I gleaned from this article is that the artists get around 50% for digital downloads. This goes some way to explain the relatively high cost of downloads considering there is nothing to manufacture, but not all the way.
The interesting thing I gleaned from this article is that the artists get around 50% for digital downloads. This goes some way to explain the relatively high cost of downloads considering there is nothing to manufacture, but not all the way.
Based on that article, digital downloads should be 8% cheaper.
My biggest worry concerning digital download is that the investment is rather similar with the CD format, but should your data disc get corrupted or otherwise broken, your record is lost in the cyber space. I am not sure how many are actually backing up their digital collection properly. I bet not all of us are.
Based on that article, digital downloads should be 8% cheaper.
Should be more like 25% cheaper at least! As well as zero manufacturing costs, distribution is negligible and online retailers' costs are nothing like those for a high street shop - especially stock costs as they basically have one copy of each release and sell it over and over again.
What Pev said.
The music industry has a long history of crying poverty while inventing new ways to increase profit. Including new formats.
Remember when they claimed that digital tape was supposedly the death knell?