Comments on: Amie Street Takes Innovative Music Model Into Beta

By: Galina

Galina — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:45:58 +0000

DRM has been a total failure and a step against the people on whom the whole music industry is actually based- the listeners, the music consumers.

Do you treat someone badly who comes to your store in order to buy something? The (major) labels and music managers are totally desperate because they are afraid to loose their jobs. Ok, I understand that. But, why do they have to lie then? The future belongs to the visionairies of our time, and I am sure this will not the people who try to rescue their state in sticking to old conventions and outdated restrictions.
As it is already mentioned in Wikipedia, the term “Digital Rights management” should rather be named “Digital Restriction Management”

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Amie Street 的定價機制與顧客預期經驗 « 小四的不專業圖書館 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:13:01 +0000

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By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:55:34 +0000

Pete,

Yes, this is true, but just a clarification, you’re on the other side of the curve. When something is truly “popular”, meaning sales of thousands and thousands of tracks, the price should decline per your argument once it hits that inflection point when the marginal revenue of an additional sale hits 0. However, we’re dealing with the first part of that curve here. Like a tree in the woods, if no one hears the music, does it have any market value?

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Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:24:18 +0000

[...] Amie Street is one of my favorite startups right now, partially because they are the embodiment of (what I consider to be) the perfect music model: DRM-free MP3s sold at pure market driven prices. [...]

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Amie Street Begins Data Mining and Artist Promotion — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:13:19 +0000

By: Pete Dapkus

Pete Dapkus — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:25:30 +0000

Neat to see people playing with pricing models, but this seems almost backwards. The more popular it is, the more easy it is to get on one of p2p networks. Since the value of the online services really seems to be keyed to convenience, the more popular it is, the less valuable the service is.

Maybe they should flip the model over: have you pay for unpopular stuff and give credits when a song you bought becomes popular; Give free downloads of popular music for “current” customers. Downside is that you’d have to work out some way of sharing revenue with popular artists, who are now effectively acting as your loss leader.

By: Another Crazy Music Model » JenIT

Another Crazy Music Model » JenIT — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:58:54 +0000

[...] We’re tracking a number of new music distribution models (a couple are listed in the last paragraph here), but our favorite continues to be Amie St., which we first profiled in July. Amie St., which has no DRM on music, starts off by distributing new songs for free. As songs become more popular, the price rises, until very popular songs hit $0.99. It’s a great way of building buzz for new bands, and consumers demand music without DRM. [...]

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By: The Netpreneur » Another Web 2.0 Gimmick: Amie Street

The Netpreneur » Another Web 2.0 Gimmick: Amie Street — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:58:29 +0000

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By: Liv Pooleside

Liv Pooleside — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:51:55 +0000

How many $.88 songs does a band have to sell in order to pay the rent? I don’t think that variations on the mass marketing model are going to do very many musicians very much good.

I say, better to abandon the “pennies per song” model and get with the “fans sponsor artist” model. Don’t ask less for the songs in an effort to promote them- give them away free in order to promote the band!

Then ask your true fans to sponsor your work. It’s a beautiful thing.

By: warsystems » New business models series

warsystems » New business models series — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:21:11 +0000

[...] Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Amie Street Takes Innovative Music Model Into Beta: DRM-free music marketplace Amie Street is announcing its beta launch this morning. (Note: it looks like it’s having traffic issues today, but it is coming up if you’re patient.) We wrote about the company’s alpha launch and interesting demand-driven pricing model here in July. Songs uploaded by artists fluctuate in price according to demand over time. Users get recommendation tokens for each dollar they put into the system and get free credits if the songs they recommend rise in price. Artists receive 70% of sales proceeds. The company is angel funded, with one of the most notable angels being Robin Richards of MP3.com fame. Comment this post [...]

By: Elias

Elias — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:42:20 +0000

Rob Safuto, per your points yesterday (sorry for the delay- long night) the DRM issue and the community-based pricing are two totally different features. Having no DRM doesn’t in any way decrease the payout to our artists. Further, our demographic of artists need exposure and Amie Street will adopt the necessary features to get their music to more fans. You only need to look as far as eMusic, the number two digital music retail site after iTunes, to see the success and positive market reaction of a no-DRM model. As for dropping the ‘open market’ stance, we believe that our music market works exactly because there are no supply-side constraints. If an independent artist has to give away a few copies of their song for free to incentivize new users to test their music, they are not suffering any inventory or marginal costs of distribution at all for that benefit. A spot on iTunes doesn’t guarantee an independent artist will be found; we believe that once an artist is discovered on our site at 0 cents and their music then climbs to the cap of 98 cents, they will have a much greater success rate, both in profit and exposure. Finally, we are a new site; the transaction costs associated with distributing royalty payments every week, and any time less than $10 was owed would make it really hard to continue to give back 70% to our artists. As soon as it is economically feasible, you can bet we will be paying out even more to our artists. We’re music lovers, not music tycoons.

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By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:54:09 +0000

Amie.St is fantastic. It’s great to be able to hear and download new music for such low prices. It has a user-friendly design and is quite innovative in all respects. Good luck on your continued success!

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By: Amie Street provides a new model for selling DRM-free music

Amie Street provides a new model for selling DRM-free music — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:25:01 +0000

[...] From the TechCrunch writeup: “Songs uploaded by artists fluctuate in price according to demand over time. Users get recommendation tokens for each dollar they put into the system and get free credits if the songs they recommend rise in price. Artists receive 70% of sales proceeds.” [...]

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:27:23 +0000

Ok that last post was supposed to be in my name…Let me try again…I love the new design! It is very user-friendly. Not to mention the music on the site is great! The fact that the site has its own player is also pretty awesome. When I logged onto the site a couple of days ago I was surprised by the diversity of the music. There was definitely something for everyone! Amie.st is such an innovative idea! I look forward to seeing the site continue to grow! Keep up the good work guys!

By: Elias

Elias — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:25:21 +0000

I love the new design! It is very user-friendly. Not to mention the music on the site is great! The fact that the site has its own player is also pretty awesome. When I logged onto the site a couple of days ago I was surprised by the diversity of the music. There was definitely something for everyone! Amie.st is such an innovative idea! I look forward to seeing the site continue to grow! Keep up the good work guys!

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By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:45:01 +0000

I was a little skeptic when I first came across amie.st. However, the music that I have found has been amazing and I love the hot reviews coming from my friends about all this new music I’ve been accruing. Also the pictures on amie.st show the artists in an aesthetically pleasing light, one which I feel is lacking in the superficial itunes setting. The whole business structure of the website is perfect, and I feel that it is a business that has awesome room for growth. I love it!