Well, I sold my first PDF today. Being the clever sort, I password-protected
the score and two parts using Acrobat. You can probably guess what happened:
the buyer could only open the score and not the parts (and he was using the
latest version of Adobe Reader).
No more passwords, I guess! I
Weren't the score and the parts the same PDF file? Most of the time
when I buy a PDF of music the seller has combined them all into a single
PDF file, which may or may not be password protected.
But basically we have to trust each other. The thieves will always find
a way to steal and the
On Mar 30, David H Bailey wrote:
Weren't the score and the parts the same PDF file? Most of the time
when I buy a PDF of music the seller has combined them all into a single
PDF file, which may or may not be password protected.
I thought I was doing the buyer a favor by having three different
On 3/28/2012 2:48 PM, Ryan wrote:
I'm curious about the price difference also. Granted, the expense of paper
and ink/toner are not applicable when distributing PDFs, but I would think
that the real value is the content, not the physical materials.
True, but if the publisher has to spend, for
On 3/28/2012 3:13 PM, Raymond Horton wrote:
There is also a print on command function that some sellers use. It does
not deliver pdfs but gives the buyer the ability to print one copy on his
or her printer. You can see this at places like
http://www.musicnotes.com/
[snip]
it - if I had
On 3/28/2012 5:02 PM, Mark D Lew wrote:
2. Adam Engst (TidBITS founder) was kind enough to offer some advice:
don't bother password protecting your PDFs -- they're easily removed.
I'm not sure I agree with that.
Although it's true that someone who wants to remove a password can easily do
I guess password-protecting a PDF has pros and cons. The most obvious pro is
that it makes it a _bit_ more difficult to pirate the PDF -- someone has to
remember where the password is and send it along with the PDF. That's also the
con! Two years later the buyer wonders, where's that damned
On Thu, 29 Mar, David H. Bailey wrote:
Which means that reasonable pricing and reasonable availability which
makes it easy and reasonable for everybody to buy their own copy rather
than share copies (such as has been the fallout of the recorded music
industry) is the best remedy.
Yes, I
On 3/29/2012 1:13 PM, Paul Hayden wrote:
I guess password-protecting a PDF has pros and cons. The most obvious
pro is that it makes it a _bit_ more difficult to pirate the PDF --
someone has to remember where the password is and send it along with
the PDF. That's also the con! Two years later
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
At 10:15 PM -0500 3/27/12, 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
I have been selling my music as PDFs for a while now and was wondering the same
things. I recently ordered some music from another composer by means of PDF and
email, and noticed that when I got it there was a note at the bottom of each
page 1 below the copyright notice: This score and set of
On 3/28/2012 7:49 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
I have been selling my music as PDFs for a while now and was
wondering the same things. I recently ordered some music from another
composer by means of PDF and email, and noticed that when I got it
there was a note at the bottom of each page 1
At 3/28/2012 09:26 AM, David H. Bailey wrote:
On 3/28/2012 7:49 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
I have been selling my music as PDFs for a while now and was
wondering the same things. I recently ordered some music from another
composer by means of PDF and email, and noticed that when I got it
On 3/28/2012 9:26 AM, David H. Bailey wrote:
Unless the pirates also have a pirated version of the full Adobe
Acrobat and edit the PDF to remove that line. :-)
You can put all kinds of protections on a PDF, if you have full Acrobat
or something similar. For example, if you're sending out a
I think sometimes that selling PDFs might be trying to monetize the wrong thing.
Selling nice printed copies is fine because not everyone can print
properly-sized sheets, nor has the ability to bind a score, nor has the desire
to put together a set of parts. Also, organizations, schools and
On Mar 28, 2012, at 12:03 AM, John Howell wrote:
And I do think one has to realize that we ALL
have to learn to trust people to do the right
thing,
Am glad that this observation is voiced by a musician. ( notice: Goldman Sachs,
et al )
Perhaps this is the core issue facing a society that
Hi Timothy,
You do know that this list goes beyond US borders, right?
Just saying.
-Randolph Peters
On 2012-03-28, at 8:03 AM, timothy.price wrote:
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Wow -- great replies! Your comments bring up a couple of other issues:
1. I assume that PDFs should be priced lower than paper copies. If they're not,
I would think there would be a greater incentive to pirate the PDF rather than
just buy your own copy. Does 50% lower sound right?
2. Adam
I'm curious about the price difference also. Granted, the expense of paper
and ink/toner are not applicable when distributing PDFs, but I would think
that the real value is the content, not the physical materials.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Paul Hayden phayden...@cox.net wrote:
Wow --
There is also a print on command function that some sellers use. It does
not deliver pdfs but gives the buyer the ability to print one copy on his
or her printer. You can see this at places like
http://www.musicnotes.com/
which I have used a few times to get pop songs I needed quickly. It
On Wed, March 28, 2012 3:13 pm, Raymond Horton wrote:
There is also a print on command function that some sellers use. It does
not deliver pdfs but gives the buyer the ability to print one copy on his
or her printer. You can see this at places like
http://www.musicnotes.com/
I've used them.
2. Adam Engst (TidBITS founder) was kind enough to offer some advice: don't
bother password protecting your PDFs -- they're easily removed.
I'm not sure I agree with that.
Although it's true that someone who wants to remove a password can easily do
so, it still sets up a situation where it
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,
Some others have mentioned a similar philosophy: the notice on the bottom of
the file is like a No Trespassing sign; it won't stop a determined thief, but
will keep honest people reasonably honest. It also causes an extra step if you
intend to pirate them, which may be enough.
50% lower seems
When I try to print to CutePDF or other PDF virtual printers on my Windows
PC from these sites I get an error message saying they will not print to
pdf. For the one that I mentioned not wanting to print reams of parts that
I didn't need, I even renamed a virtual printer for the purpose but the
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
Hi Paul,
I can pretty much guarantee that the income you are losing by not offering
digitally downloadable scores and parts far exceeds any potential loss you
might incur due to digital piracy.
Paper copies of parts and scores can, of course, be scanned and then posted
online or emailed to
On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:15 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
Am 05.02.10 14:12, schrieb Richard Huggins:
I'd love to see the URL for your storefront there.
http://stores.lulu.com/musikmanufaktur
Johannes
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On Feb 5, 2010, at 12:39 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
www.lulu.com
Of all the print on demand publishers I tried they are the only one
who will sell pdfs directly. I have some music there, too, and
actually sold some, too. Not much though, but one of the items I
have seems to be selling
I've engraved a collection of piano compositions for a lady and she's
asked me about selling PDFs of them on the 'Net. I'm looking for
suggested sites to do this. I'm aware of Kagi as a possibility; are
there others?
Richard
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Who is the music by?
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Richard Huggins huggin...@yahoo.com wrote:
I've engraved a collection of piano compositions for a lady and she's asked
me about selling PDFs of them on the 'Net. I'm looking for suggested sites
to do this. I'm aware of Kagi as a
On Feb 4, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
Who is the music by?
They are original compositions by
Dr. Warren M. Angell, Dean Emeritus (deceased),
Warren M. Angell College of Fine Arts,
Oklahoma Baptist University
--Richard
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www.lulu.com
Of all the print on demand publishers I tried they are the only one who
will sell pdfs directly. I have some music there, too, and actually sold
some, too. Not much though, but one of the items I have seems to be
selling a PDF copy from time to time.
Johannes
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