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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
Authors can't exactly tour the same way that Music groups do, other than maybe book tours, or speaking engagements. So the comparison really doesn't work imo.
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That also is a primary point - people constantly bring up this band doing it and making more money. Where the author comparison in more inline with what we content producers deal with as we can not really take our porn on tour either etc.
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Originally Posted by kane
Think of it like this. If you were a bestselling author that had many major big selling books many of which were made into very successful movies then you decided to put up a book for free online the media would jump all over it and you would get a ton of downloads. Why? Because everyone knows you. How? Because when you started out the publishing house put a lot of time and money behind marketing you.
If JK Rowling puts a book online there might be so many downloads it could crash the server. If unknown writer #2 puts his new book online tomorrow, nobody would notice.
Radiohead is not the norm. NIN is not the norm.
Yes, the record companies are unfair, but it is a trade off. The successful bands make a lot of money touring and the record industry keeps most of the money for album sales which allows them to sign and market new bands or continue to market existing bands.
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Again as I stated it failed hard for Stephen King