Fellow camslib/videolib folks,
A faculty member recently requested we acquire a film titled White Scripts and
Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books. At the site to purchase
it, the dreaded tiered pricing plan appears
(http://newsreel.org/video/WHITE-SCRIPTS-BLACK-SUPERMEN), with
Richard,
I'll shoot a thought at that invitation. If the independent video authors and
agents could get their works listed with jobbers, particularly Baker Taylor,
Blackwell, and others that serve higher ed, then they could lower prices some
because they'd have a bigger audience. On the
Dear folks,
Just some information back. Even at $25 (and less), I sell about 50 to 150
copies of any of my DVDs to the colleges, high schools and public libraries
of America. There are very few institutions left who buy indie DVDs and
BluRays because they *should* be offering them to their
In my past life long before I ever got in the acquisition of DVDS, I
worked here at USC as
a serials librarian. With the pricing of academic journals, there
always been a two tiered
system of pricing. There is one rate which an individual pays for a
subscription, and what
a university library
Hi
Not many things are currently rousing me from my post-retirement lethargy,
but this issue does.
You're talking about buying a title from a distributor that has exclusive
distribution rights. What's going on here--tiered pricing with specific
stipulations re use--is really matter of business
Jessica
A wonderful explanation.
As a distributer Docs For Education I want to add I don't want the retail
Market at $25 a DVD, the work to correspond , invoice post etc. is the
same for a Library use at $175 or a private home use at $25, as the so
called fair use allows a legally bought DVD
Richard wrote:
A faculty member recently requested we acquire a film titled White Scripts
and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books. At the site to
purchase it, the dreaded tiered pricing plan appears
(http://newsreel.org/video/WHITE-SCRIPTS-BLACK-SUPERMEN), with public and
Speaking as distributor of all labels, we have found that most of our
university clients order 1 copy of a title we invoice all at the same
deeply discounted rates. We do offer extraordinary specials, often at or
below normal dealer cost and ONLY post those special offers on the MLA list
serv.
Barbara,
You may want to check out our new film Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial
Inequity. Through this film project, we are working to reframe the national
conversation to include an understanding of systemic inequity. The film does
use a racial equity lens, but reveals a system
Susan at Wabash College wrote:
Richard, you asked if any of us ever try to work with
publishers/producers/small distributors. My answer is YES, and I did so in
yesterday's case . I'm not necessarily opposed to the concept of tiered
pricing for these kinds of films, but I *do* object to having
We charged $850 for an hour-long film and $550 for a half-hour. Of course
everything was expensive: creating the internegative, making prints, even the
reels, shipping cases and of course postage, because of the weight.
VHS was a lot cheaper, but now with DVD and streaming there are all sorts
A couple of things Jay. The discussion here is basically about specialized
educational media which is not sold retail/wholesale as your titles would
be. These are in most cases exclusive distribution deals of material which
is largely of interest only to the academic community ( not covering folks
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