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online royalties

I sell downloads via CDBaby (which gets me onto iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, 
etc.) and festivalink.net (which also gets me onto iTunes, Amazon and 
HDTrack.net).  CDBaby sends me money via PayPal whenever it the running 
total exceeds $50, and that happens a few times a year so I think I'm in 
the $200-250 range there.  VERY few actual CDs go out that way any more.

Festivalink.net has a couple of my live shows and two studio albums.  They 
offer downloads, CD on demand, and individual track sales.  I was also 
part of a performance of The American Beauty Project in 2007 that still 
sells pretty well, so I get a few pennies from every sale of that one.  I 
think I get maybe $300 a year from festivalink.

My March 2012 statement from SoundExchange, reflecting online plays of all 
my (registered) releases, was $126.68, comprising my composer's royalties 
and my publisher's royalties (I am my own publisher, of course).  
SiriusXM, Pandora, and something called "webcasting proxy II" are my 
biggest outlets.  So again, not much money, but every little bit helps.

I also get a few bucks from sales of my book "Conversations with the 
Dead," which found new life as an eBook in the Kindle era.

My point is that the lion's share of my income from music is from playing 
live, not from sales of my recorded works.

I love to record, and I put money aside for that as often as I can.  When 
I have enough to pay for studio time and some players, I record a song or 
two.  When I have enough songs for a CD, I'll put one out.  It's great to 
have CDs to sell at gigs.  And in fact, that business has picked up 
considerably this year: I sold 21 CDs at a festival in Ohio last Sunday 
and another dozen or so at a house concert the following day.




On Sep 7, 2012, at 6:34 AM, Stephen Goodman wrote:

> As always LD is a valuable resource for communication and information on 
> many levels.  What about downloads' income?

David Gans - david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com
Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102, Oakland CA 94610-2730
Blog:  http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com
Web site: http://www.dgans.com
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgans
Music: http://www.cdbaby.com/all/dgans