Re: Re: Lilypond store?

[Stewart Holmes]

I don't think there's much problem about people willing to buy... the 
quality can be as good or better as printed editions, thanks to Lilypond, 
and the price can be very reasonable due to very little overhead. I'd quite 
happily buy (decent) scores from the internet if they were around the same 
price/cheaper than printed editions. Other people obviously do too, as 
evidenced by www.everynote.com, and www.musicnotes.com (which is pretty 
expensive, and the scores not that great).

I think this really could be work. To take the example of 
http://www.everynote.com/goods.1/JSB_PreFug_1_01.pdf from everynote, which 
costs $1.87. Would you rather pay for that, or a similar amount for a nicely 
typeset Lilypond version, e.g. 
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BachJS/BWV846/wtk1-prelude1/wtk1-prelude1-a4.pdf 
(one of the better engraved parts of Mutopia)?

Stewart

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Cave" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Lilypond store?


> > Quentin Spencer <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I think another question regarding selling scores is how much people
> > would be willing to pay. Obviously the engraving quality must be as good
> > or better than any print edition, but even then, while I might be
> > willing to pay a little, I don't know if it would be enough to make this
>
> How to price a score?
>
> I have used a web site
> http://www.everynote.com which offers scans of
> out of print editions of scores for only a few dollars. For example,
> I donwloaded the violin and piano score of Prokofiev's violin concerto
> #1  for $US 3.50    I thought that was a reasonable price.
>
>
> Charles
>
>
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