Serious Steel songbook market

Dave & Laura McKinstry dalm at why.net
Mon Mar 18 03:53:50 PST 1996


I just inquired about a songbook to go with the new _Serious Steel_ album, and got 
the following answer:
 
>...songbooks don't sell
> nearly as well as the albums do, in our regular filk market; how big a
> market in the SCA would there be? We'd have to do a couple of hundred copies
> to be worthwhile, and I'm not too sure of the cost/return ratio.

Does anyone have any idea on how well such a songbook would sell?  I'm always 
trying to get my hands on legitimate copies of music I've heard and enjoyed, but I 
also know I'm not a good judge of when my views are representative and when I'm 
just being weird, nor do I know how many musicians there are out there who would 
buy such a songbook at, say, $10, $15 or $20.  Does anyone have an idea?	

Lark of Cire Freunlaven		LauraMcKinstry	
Steppes, Ansteorra		Dallas, TX



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