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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Only those who can shoot what sells to the members will survive. A lot of shooters had to turn away from running content stores and turn to custom work. Simply because their work never sold that well. They ended up shooting solo scenes for $300-$400. While the industry were saying content providers were selling so many times it was saturating the content.  |
now tell us that you used to make $4000 for a solo set and we have a typical Paul Markham thread again
just kidding with you Paul, the thing from my point of view is that you are right - and you are wrong.
you were always right about the non-exclusive content, it just takes a lot of time and work to run a store and most shooters who work alone don't have the resources for that. thats why many stores failed. We have the advantage that I don't shoot and have the time - the result is that our shop this year up to today made already more than the whole last year. And last year wasn't that bad either.
But you are wrong about the $300 per solo scene exclusive. Maybe it's under your dignity but when someone goes home after a days work with $1000 profit you can't blame him for that. he only has a problem when he has nothing else to make money from in case the day comes when no one orders something new.
the print market is 90% dead - we both know that. the DVD market is 75% dead, also not exactly "news".
from my point of view the content market today is only worthwhile when you either do high volumes with DVD stuff - like Jaques does - or when you have many legs to stand on - like we do. And we keep growing more legs. ;)