What are your digital sales numbers?

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Blade_Jones

I'm just curious if anyone has digital distribution of your movie (through Tunecore or other distributor) and as a percentage how do your digital sales compare to physical online DVD sales?

I know these companies are charging like $750 for digital distribution. Was it worth it? Have you broken even?

Also is anyone aware of any software apps that allow you to sell your movie via your website? So perhaps you take an order via Ccnow.com and then give the customer a code to download the movie file from your server (Hostgator, LunarPages, etc).
 
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I haven't really looked into it closely for that purpose, but many of the modern ecommerce platforms are set up for 'digital delivery' - designed for things like ebooks, etc where the flow is very much what you've described. Unfortunately they generally take some setup though, so if you're not particularly technically proficient on the web side of things it'll probably cost more than $750 to have someone set it up for you.
 
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ItDonnedOnMe said:
I haven't really looked into it closely for that purpose, but many of the modern ecommerce platforms are set up for 'digital delivery' - designed for things like ebooks, etc where the flow is very much what you've described. Unfortunately they generally take some setup though, so if you're not particularly technically proficient on the web side of things it'll probably cost more than $750 to have someone set it up for you.
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I'm very geeky! I'll look into digital delivery.
 
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I just discovered this:
TuneCore has discontinued Music Video and Film Distribution so we can focus on our Music Distribution and Publishing Administration products and services.
I guess the digital distribution of movies just isn't happening.
 
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Direct digital distribution is pretty cheap and easy in general, it seems like what companies like TuneCore do (did) are more about getting your work into a bunch of other online distributors like itunes - so that's really more about expanding your availability (and hopefully visibility) than about the distribution itself.

If you're just looking for the actual distribution side of things it should be fairly straightforward to set up a paypal purchasing option for $0 - 0.40 per transaction, then host the file on Amazon S3 and pay about $0.25 in bandwidth for someone to download an HD copy of your film (about $0.06 for SD) - all with nothing laid out up front, just pay as you go. Even if you're only charging $4-5/copy you potentially come out well ahead of the services that take a 30% cut. As the price goes up the difference in your profit becomes even more significant.

So now the question comes down to promotion - can you take the $750 you would have paid to the distributor and put it into your own marketing that's effective enough to sell a significant number of copies of your film? Or does just being on some of the bigger services sell enough copies to outpace anything you could do yourself - I tend to doubt this unless you already have marketing in place.
 
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