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Points: 4076 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 25 2010 at 09:28
^ DEAN is right about the fact that the space is reserved for advertisers who pay to be listed there or propose sales re-distribution fees. This is some of the ways PA use to pay the hosting and related costs.

I also understand harmonium.ro who elaborate about how PA's job is too list things but those new external sellers should be found on the artist sites, myspace or others, I suppose !?  It would be a under-estimate job to wish to have PA replace all the informations related on a specific artist, even artist themselves don't maintain timely their own pages.

There is another issue, what if artists discography is not listed on Amazon, Ebay, GEMM, Doug Larson's Imports, LoudTrax.com, eMusic.com ? That is very possible and an actual issue.

2 ideas (we can elaborate):

  • We offer to the official sellers of the artists music to pay a certain price to be listed in that specific artist BUY ZONE with logo + product lists + $ and links 

  • We offer the artist to decide the links ( I will manually handle this with artists or genre team)
Let me know.

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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 25 2010 at 09:57
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

  • We offer the artist to decide the links ( I will manually handle this with artists or genre team)


I think this is the best compromise: it provides only restricted access (hence no headaches for the Admins) but makes it possible for small bands to have an extra promotion. Thumbs Up
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Points: 4076 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 25 2010 at 15:01
Great then , there is 1118 artists with no results from Amazon.com.

I have the list, how should we proceed now ... ?
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Points: 8321 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 25 2010 at 15:15
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Nope. Can't get behind this one. Any user who can edit a link can edit in a spam / abuse. We spend enough of the day editing spam links out of the forum - to have them littered through 30,000 random archive pages is a fricking nightmare in the making. Any hacker could write a routine to do this in minutes. 
 
Then, why don't we make this facility only available to Admins/Special Collaborators/Collaborators/Prog Reviewers AND Artists
 
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

Great then , there is 1118 artists with no results from Amazon.com.

I have the list, how should we proceed now ... ?
 
Well, when I write biographies, I usually (try to) contact the artists for informations. We could just ask them for a link to purchase their albums as we ask them for information. That is, of course, if their albums are available.
For artists that are already here, it could be done on a voluntary basis. Collaborators that wish to add links for artists could do it.


Edited by Tsevir Leirbag - June 25 2010 at 15:18
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