thinking

[ewt]

I wonder what sort of subscription service I could hang off the website.... something for £2-4-ish/month. Possibly access to higher-quality MP3 files? Possibly getting rid of some sort of download limit?

Is this a terrible, doomed idea, or a quite good one?

I don't want to bug everyone to sign up for premium service all the time, because, hey, sucks. I don't want a huge gulf between the free services and the paid-for-services - everything we sell has to be free in some format and should be easily accessible. However, as the site gains popularity, having some kind of subscription service might be an easy way to gain revenue for the artists and make sure our costs are covered.

I need to think about money transfer and how that is going to work, too. PayPal? WorldPay? Something else? Why? If we do something by subscription, will that be the same or can people use a Standing Order if they're in the UK?

Comments

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Existing creative commons site provides a sample legal framework and appropriate documents, but doesn't really provide one place for people to distribute their music and listen to music. It links to some CC projects but not all of them. For many musicians, maintaining a website with their current work is a bit much, and even for those who do this easily, just having a website doesn't really get your name out there or get people listening to your music.

Credit rollover is a very good point and I will think about how this might be implemented.