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No, Sorry,

But the Sole profits of a producer channel out to a lot of other networks. Not just retail. Ever scince the internet was invented, producers are making all kinds of deals with VOD sites, distributors, wireless content, Live feeds and so forth.

DVD and retail will be dead very soon, so any company that profits and utilizes money soley on retail will be bankrupt.

You're money spent on retail doesn't do shit for anyone, except the retail store.

Understand?



Ryan, I think you're misunderstanding my argument. I chose retail as an example of a kind of distributor. However, it doesn't matter if we use internet services or retail stores as an example, the argument still remains valid.

The POINT of the argument is that distribution (in whichever way) is a way to connect the buyer and the seller. The production side of the equation get all their salaries and profits from the consumers via the distribution channels, i.e. indirectly. It is not true that my money DIRECTLY spent in the distribution channel of your choice only matter to the distributors. If people won't buy stuff from the distributors, the distributors won't buy stuff from the producers.

I think you are making the mistake of looking at a single movie at a time. You have to imagine the business process as channels of money and products though. That's the only way to explain the business - or any similar kind of business for that matter - in the long run (i.e. normal rolling operations).

Surely you see that consumers, distributors and producers are all connected in this way and that the production sector cannot possible be said to be disconnected from the consumers just because they use different kinds of distribution channels to sell their goods?

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