Amie Street and Indistr
10. January 2007 – 05:07 byYesterday I tried to write a blog post about two probably cool alternatives for bands to sell their music. However I miserably failed to do so.
First, there is Amie Street which has a great concept. Prices of songs rise by demand. All songs are given away for free at first, though can rise up to $0.98 if there are many fans into it. The first $5 of each song go to Amie Street to cover costs: bandwidth, handling. Further revenues are split 30/70 between Amie Street and the artist. That’s great.
Sounds good and the website looks really good as well. There are even some social networking features like profile, recommendations, friends list. Well, I was not able to buy songs. The system gave me an error. Later I discovered that I have to buy credits to purchase songs. I thought I was able to purchase songs directly by credit card or PayPal. Strange.
Though check it out. It looks good.
The other service is called Indistr which just launched on Jan 8. Indistr even gives 75% (after PayPal fees) to artists. Artists can upload as many songs as they like and compile albums. There is a fixed price of $1 for individual songs, though artists can decide how much they want to charge for complete albums. Assuming you have eight songs uploaded to Indistr, each song is $1. Though it’s up to you if you charge $8, $5, whatever for the complete album. Makes sense.
The service seems to be only available for US and Canadian customers at the moment, though. At least that were the only options when I tried to sign up. Though if you are a band or customer living there give it a try.
Both services offer DRM-free MP3s and allow to have songs on competitors’ sites.
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