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Digital
Bandcamp add fee to free downloads
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 13 September 2010
US-based Bandcamp, one of the websites which provides digital tools for bands to promote, distribute and sell their music, has changed its pricing structure, so that artists will have to pay an albeit nominal fee each time they give away their songs.
Originally a free-to-use service, Bandcamp started charging earlier this summer. The new additional fee will mean that bands who use the digital platform to give away MP3s will have to pay a 1.5-3 cent fee for each download. That said, free giveaway units will be bundled in to basic subscriptions, and bands who also use Bandcamp to sell music will get an extra set of free giveaway units every time they pass $500 in sales.
Says Bandcamp CEO Ethan Diamond: “The idea is that if you’re selling through Bandcamp, you’ll probably never run out of free promo downloads, and if you’re using the site to distribute your music for free, there’s still a cheap and easy way to keep doing that”.
