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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (10372)	4/14/2000 10:22:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 60323

Zeev, If it cost you $2.50 a piece to press the CD's then it is clear that $6.00 per copy may be what is needed to break even, but this is a ridiculous example. If the recording industry can make a master recording, digitalize it in a downloadable (protected or unprotected) format and employ both Internet and traditional vehicles for popularizing/marketing their bands their costs will fall dramatically. The problem is that the record companies have totally alienated the consumer at this point by villainizing them. There have to be other viable business models. Just ask Stephen King how much he made on his last novella. He wrote it on his laptop while recovering from his car accident, formatted the whole 60 pages in Adobe Acrobat *.PDF format and then charged $2.00 a download. He sold 400,000 copies on the first day alone. You do the math. Not bad work, if you can get it. Ausdauer

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (10372)	4/16/2000 3:27:00 AM
From: Steve 667	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Zeev, Ausdauer reply #10375 puts it very well! No I have no problem with paying money that actually finds it's way to the artist which is probably less than $1 per CD. It's the other $17 that I have the problem with. It only costs me $1 to burn a CD and I am sure the big companies can do it for less than that. The rest of the math is pretty easy to figure out. $3 may be a bit low. At $6 they should be able to make plenty of profit. However as Ausdauer said, with new web technology, it is possible to sell music direct to the consumer as did Stephen King with his novel. There is more technology in place to utilize downloaded music (i.e. mp3 players using SANDISK cards of course) than there is for novels right now. It also allows the consumer to only buy the songs he likes. So instead of paying $90 to get 12 songs I like (on 5 cd's), I would be happy to pay $12 directly to the artist. Beleive me I have paid thousands to buy CD's. Unfortunately, the artists got very little of that. I wish your son all the best. What is the name of his group? Is there a sample on the internet that I can listen to? If I like it I will buy one of your CD's gladly. Steve 667