When you buy a digital score, what does your investment support?
In purchasing a PDF score from an online market like laurahawley.ca, here are some of the ways the purchase price is disbursed:
- Royalties are paid to the composer, poet, singer-songwriter, or other collaborator
- In some instances, where the text of the musical work is not in the public domain, ongoing royalties or a lump sum fee are paid to the publisher of the text
- A portion of the fee is paid to PayPal
- Funds are directed back into www.laurahawley.ca to help recoup cost of establishing and maintaining the operational aspects of the site, which includes:
- contracting a website developer for site building, updates, support, and maintenance
- Several weeks of full-time work setting up the site
- Regular time investment in updating the site
- Financial investment in maintaining domain hosting
- Various admin tasks (bookkeeping, etc.)
- Funds are directed back into www.laurahawley.ca to offset the cost of the creative life of the site, including:
- Communications with performers
- Careful editing and engraving of scores
- Adding new scores and recordings to the site as they become available
- Building of pedagogical strategies and other resources
These are some of the ways your purchase of music on www.laurahawley.ca helps to support the operation and creative work involved. Thank you for your interest, for supporting the arts, and for upholding fair pricing of musical scores!