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More feedback on my email, Your next album supplier
Changing to Queensberry is like changing my Ford Focus for a top range Audi ... Not sure many people are going to cope with that.
Depends what you mean by "many". But certainly we never expect most people to choose Queensberry. Products that differentiate need to be aspirational (ie more people want them than can have them). That applies to your own "products" too, of course.
In business, rather than ask how much something costs, it's useful sometimes to ask how much it's worth. And how it positions you in your market.
There were 42 album companies at Focus this year ... something must be going right for them all.
Not necessarily. There used to be dozens of little oil companies, car companies and computer companies too. Right now the barriers to entry for digital book companies are very low. Things will get shaken out. And you didn't even mention the very cheap press books you can buy from Apple and goodness knows where else.
Many of the old UK companies make a very good living from supplying their legacy products.
It didn't pan out for Spicer Hallfield. My post was simply to suggest that you think twice before hitching your wagon to products or companies that may be in a long, slow decline.
Cheers, Ian
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