{"id":1814,"date":"2014-07-14T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T14:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2014-07-14T10:49:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T14:49:53","slug":"on-reaching-the-fifteen-percent-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/on-reaching-the-fifteen-percent-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"On Reaching the Fifteen Percent Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a bit of insight into the economics of independent music publishing, this weekend I broke the 15% mark in terms of CD sales.<\/p>\n

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\n(Image by Paul Cory Photography<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

To be precise, I reached the 17.15% point, which means that so far I’ve made back a little over 17% of the cost of recording, engineering, manufacturing, distributing, etc., the CD.<\/p>\n

In other words, I’m still over 80% in the hole, almost a year after releasing the album.*<\/p>\n

Maybe you didn’t even realize I had a CD out. In that case, at this link you can listen to all 10 songs of Truths and Lies and Make-Believe<\/em><\/a>, which I call “a compendium of musical selections, inspired or influenced by science fiction, fantasy, life, and faith … a multitude of things.” If you decide to buy it, it’s $7 for a download or $10 — only $1 a song! — for a physical CD. (Though you can pay more, if you want to.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So as I told folks at my concert this past weekend at ConGregate<\/a>, if you’ve ever bought a copy of my CD, THANK YOU!<\/strong><\/p>\n

And if you like any of my songs, even a little bit, I’d be much obliged if you told a friend or wrote a review or otherwise helped spread the word.<\/p>\n

And maybe next month I’ll crack the 20% mark!<\/p>\n

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\n*And yet I’m crazy enough to be thinking of starting to record a second one!<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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