On 3/27/2012 11:15 PM, Paul Hayden wrote: > Apologies if you also subscribe to the SCI list: > > I've been selling my compositions as paper sheet music for years, but I'm > getting more and more requests for PDFs. I feel a little uneasy about this > since a PDF (even with a password) can be posted online or emailed to anyone > who wants it for free. > > Any thoughts on this from publishers, composers, or engravers currently > selling PDFs? > > Thanks for any insight! >
I will second what Darcy and Mark have said -- as a consumer of printed music, one of the first things I do is to scan the music into a PDF file and put it on my iPad. If it's a work for a brass quintet I'm in, I'll scan my part, if it's a score I'll scan the whole thing so that I can have it with me to study or perform from whenever/wherever I want. If it's an exercise book or a solo work, the same applies. I would much prefer to purchase things already in PDF format. I don't sell much music online, so I can't speak from experience, but with so many people having all-in-one printers, whether we sell printed music or PDF versions, there is nothing we can do to prevent piracy. I never share the scanned music I create from purchased music, just as back in the day I never shared cassettes of LPs I purchased, even though creating a cassette was one of the first things I did so that I could listen in my car. Convenience is the key, as both Darcy and Mark have said. Honesty is something about which we just have to have faith in our customers. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
