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Old 06-16-2004, 01:27 PM  
Paul Markham
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The simple answer is they make more money shooting exclusive.

To me the bigger question is why?

Very few people will pay more than $30 for a solo girl set and even fewer will pay more than $500 if it's with a video. Now with the set or video going out at $35, the two together going out at $60 how many times do you have to sell it to make $500. Yes some never make any real money. But we can throw it into Bargain Basement at $5 and sell it 20 times.

I think some content providers are suffering because the market has changed. No longer can they count on the newbie webmaster buying their content, the paysites were not buying unless they gave it away and they are left with no alternative but to do a Blow Out.

Whether all of them are moving into exclusive remains to be seen, I suspect some are saying one thing to cover up another.

It is nice not to have all your eggs in one basket, but you don't need two outlets. Assuming you can shoot well enough to get decent paysites and professional webmasters to buy. They buy, it works, they come back.

Shoot content that does not work, they buy, it does not work, they don't come back. Simple as that.
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