Quote from: halfawake on September 17, 2014, 07:12:43 AM

Quote from: Keyara on September 17, 2014, 04:53:12 AM

Digital goods are vulnerable to piracy and copy.

Unless someone solve the piracy issues, the market will not be able to support the artist and author.

Sure, but look at iTunes. Make the product (music in this case) reasonably priced and people seem to be happy to buy the legit versions of music. Piracy will always be around, alas, but with good enough platforms, I don't buy your statement that the market will not be able to support the artist and author...

Is that true? In a lot of cases, yes. In all of them? Absolutely not. I've read a lot about a guy named Hugh Howey. Ever heard of him? If you haven't, well...that's the amazing thing. The guy wrote a couple books that sold so well that he made seven figures on them. Yes, that's right, seven figures, over one million dollars in one year on his novels.

Granted, he is in the top 1% or more of recently published authors, but my point is that it IS possible. And probably more so with written work like novels than music because the stuff's enough longer that I think more people are willing to pay for novels / books than they are for music where it may just be a 5 minute song.

The iTunes store is designed to make it so that apple can sell more iPods. The prices are artificially low. Apple makes a lower profit then they really should on song sales because they are trying to sell more iPods and similar devices