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Jun. 13th, 2007
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Big Book 2
Jun. 13th, 2007 03:41 pmOkay, another marketing question. I hope you won't mind.
I'm working once more on Tom Smith's Big Book of Stupid Filk Tricks -- The Director's Cut. I hope to finally have it done by Labor Day. It will have every song I can find that I had something to do with, including improv's if I've got recordings, and guitar chords for the original ones.
The only way that this can reasonably be published is electronically. A printed songbook would be thick, heavy, insanely expensive, and I'd have to lug 'em around. We did that. Ain't doin' it again. I'll let you print whatever pages you want.
When I get done with it, the only lyrics I'm going to leave on the main site are the ones that are actually on recordings. I think this is [a] reasonable and [b] a selling point for the BBoSFT.
So:
ETA: Okay, I started getting some serious requests for sheet music. I was planning to make it a fake book, i.e., lyrics and chords. But a number of people want melody lines, for valid reasons.
I'm really thinking hard about it. I had discarded the idea, because it would be a lot of work, and because recordings are available. If I do it, it will add a significant amount of time to the project. And most likely bump the price to $20. Just so you know.
I'm working once more on Tom Smith's Big Book of Stupid Filk Tricks -- The Director's Cut. I hope to finally have it done by Labor Day. It will have every song I can find that I had something to do with, including improv's if I've got recordings, and guitar chords for the original ones.
The only way that this can reasonably be published is electronically. A printed songbook would be thick, heavy, insanely expensive, and I'd have to lug 'em around. We did that. Ain't doin' it again. I'll let you print whatever pages you want.
When I get done with it, the only lyrics I'm going to leave on the main site are the ones that are actually on recordings. I think this is [a] reasonable and [b] a selling point for the BBoSFT.
So:
- .html, .pdf, or both?
- Large print (so that many songs would take up two pages) or small (so that a song can fit on one page)?
- It's around 300 songs, and I'm thinking $12.00-$15.00 for the download, a dollar more for a disk at cons. Reasonable? Too much? Too little?
ETA: Okay, I started getting some serious requests for sheet music. I was planning to make it a fake book, i.e., lyrics and chords. But a number of people want melody lines, for valid reasons.
I'm really thinking hard about it. I had discarded the idea, because it would be a lot of work, and because recordings are available. If I do it, it will add a significant amount of time to the project. And most likely bump the price to $20. Just so you know.