> Once this price goes down, it goes down for EVERY SINGLE customer
Alternatively, what if the price went down for previous customers—retroactively, as you've said–but not for new customers? Then, customer N - 1 gets paid back a bit of money when customers N and greater purchase your product. There is a name for customer N - 1 in this case: an investor.
I've had the hypothesis for a while that the future of artistic economics is microinvestment: your fans purchase, through a completely streamlined process (e.g. iTMS), tiny amounts of the right to steer your career around—and the actual digital goods come for free with those investments. The "collector edition" becomes the "investor edition." Polls on your fan-site—in est a virtual shareholder meeting—hold real legal sway over your publisher/studio/firm. Etc.
ah yes that's an interesting idea to ponder - exactly the things that I like to think about.
Why do things have to be the way they are? I mean we are the future generation. The current generation who run the banks will vanish sooner or later, why can't we imagine a space where pricing and inventory and investments and money are completely different concepts?
Alternatively, what if the price went down for previous customers—retroactively, as you've said–but not for new customers? Then, customer N - 1 gets paid back a bit of money when customers N and greater purchase your product. There is a name for customer N - 1 in this case: an investor.
I've had the hypothesis for a while that the future of artistic economics is microinvestment: your fans purchase, through a completely streamlined process (e.g. iTMS), tiny amounts of the right to steer your career around—and the actual digital goods come for free with those investments. The "collector edition" becomes the "investor edition." Polls on your fan-site—in est a virtual shareholder meeting—hold real legal sway over your publisher/studio/firm. Etc.