Captain Ironhelm wrote:Fairly good with my experiences. Basically you retain ownership of your music, but they get their 15% (or whatever) cut on sales made on bandcamp. way better royalties than a service like itunes offers (last I checked they kept about 90%, may be wrong but it's way higher than bandcamp). You're on your own with marketing. However being in the top 10 sellers can give a slight boost in sales.
Stuntddude wrote:Captain Ironhelm wrote:You're on your own with marketing.
Well that's not entirely true, they do have very good SEO, so they're at least helpful in that respect.
Anyways, my experience with bandcamp is it's fantastic. I know a lot of people who use bandcamp and I've never heard of anyone having any issues, legal or otherwise. They take a small cut of profit and they allow people to pay more than the minimum (which makes a distinct difference - bandcamp stats show people paying ~50% more than the minimum, on average). It's relatively straightforward to use, you retain prety much all rights to your music, and perhaps my favorite thing of all is they do all your encoding and metadata for you. It is extremely good as a musician, so much so that I've had a better experience with it as a musician than as a customer.
Just because I want to make absolutely sure, I can assume that retaining ownership means that they don't care if you upload your music to other sites (and even make it downloadable)? That's one of my main concerns.
Probably a noob question, but then again I
am new to selling things online.
My idea is to set up a page for pay-what-you-want, where people can contribute some money if they feel it's worth it but aren't obligated to.