[Info-vax] OT: About Digital and divisions

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<2a46af63-1e22-4c62-931b-43d562b253b6 at h5g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>, Neil
Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes: 

> To your point, I read recently that Amy Winehouse was not as rich as
> many people thought. For every $1M in sales, she only received $70k.
> Someone, either traditional music publishers, or e-publishers like
> Apple, were taking $930,000. 

This is a margin of 7%.  The margins in many other businesses are much 
smaller.  Also, the $930,000 is not profit, since it includes costs; ALL 
costs---"real" costs and profits---are covered by the $1M revenue from 
sales.

> Why is it that creative people keep
> getting the short end of the stick? Imagine a world where all creative
> people are driven back into traditional jobs: No music, no TV, no
> movies, no books, no games, no art. What a crappy world that would be.

Indeed.  And illegal downloading is bringing us closer and closer to it.

I find it strange that people who complain that artists get a too small 
fraction of the income generated from sales offer as a "solution" that 
the artists get nothing at all.