Radiohead is releasing their new album In Rainbows next week for any price you want to pay! But they’re not the first.
Canadian art-pop singer, Jane Siberry, sells her music through an honor-payment system. The Freakonomics blog points out how her variable-pricing scheme ends up bringing in more cash than if she were to sell it through iTunes. BoingBoing calls her “the gold standard for a digital artist’s business.”
If you’re looking for a music 2.0 business to model, this is the one.
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