Thursday, January 22, 2009

From A Weekend Musician, To Making $4.2 Million... By Giving Music Away Free

From A Weekend Musician, To Making $4.2 Million... By Giving Music Away Free | Techdirt:

"Corey's story is quite interesting. He mostly makes money from concerts, and the free music drives more people to those concerts, but there are a few other aspects that are worth exploring. First, even though the music is available for free, plenty of people still buy his music on iTunes. However, as an experiment, they took down the free tracks from Corey's website for a period of time last summer... and sales on iTunes went down. Once again, this proves how ridiculous the claim is that free songs somehow cannibalize sales. "



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