On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 10:55:15AM +0000, Rodney Perkins wrote:
quoted 4 lines Simple market laws also show that if the supply is smaller than the demand,
> Simple market laws also show that if the supply is smaller than the demand,
> you get MPEGs and CD-Rs distributed across the world and you get nothing.
> People are eventually going to realize that while selling small quantities
> at high prices increases cash flow, it ain't no way to sustain a business.
On the contrary, you can sustain a business just fine by producing a large
number of very limited pressings. This is Fax's business model, and I don't
see them going away anytime soon.
On the other hand, the history of the music business is littered with labels
that overpressed stuff they couldn't sell and went under as a result.
You can argue against limited pressings from a lot of standpoints, but the
cashflow standpoint ain't one of them. They don't produce a *huge* flow, but
they produce a *steady* one, which matters more.
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