Questions about when Apple reports and how to set album pricing aren't minor details in my book. but if there are only a handfull of companies authorized as aggregators, they should at least know how iTunes works. If this is a hobby and someone doesn't care what they get out of it, then maybe the details don't matter. It just doesn't engender any trust at all. I've also gotten answers from one company I haven't been able to verify yet that are squarely at odds with what another has told me. and at least a few of the answers I got back I know to be factually incorrect. I've asked questions directly of the admins for a few companies. (Since it's not an investment scheme, however, I'm not sure if it would be subject to the same laws and, of course, much depends on jurisdiction.) If, as someone suggested above, they are simply paying their current costs out of incoming, one-time only fees for new members, that is effectively a Ponzi, or pyramid, scheme, doomed to fail, probably sooner rather than later. If they're not collecting either a flat, annual fee or taking a slice (or some combination of the two), how do they pay for those costs going forward? ![]() ![]() ![]() Which is why I have some lingering concerns about services that have plans that claim no annual fee. Those costs are not nothing and they have to come from somewhere. If someone states it's for server side costs, they are not telling the truth.Presumably annual fees are for administrative costs - collecting sales info and revenue and forwarding it to the musician. There are other services where you don't need to pay this yearly fee. Me thinks the no 1 reason not to use Tunecore.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |