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"The cd model for mp3 pricing is not working;" efolkMusic CEO and founder Chris Frank says, "people are not paying 99 cents+ for an mp3 single. It's as if somebody in a boardroom was trying to figure out a way NOT to sell digital downloads! We want to find a price point that will entice people into downloading, not discourage them."

efolkMusic.com is a fast growing Internet mp3 and cd sales and artist promotion site, serving the folk, bluegrass, and Celtic market with a filtered selection of free and for sale downloads and cds. They will roll out "mp3 Multi- paks" in March, designed to encourage downloading in this emerging market. Retail price will range from $4.95 for 10 downloads to 12.95 for 50 downloads, and the customer will be able to easily download a few songs at a time until their multi-pak is used up. "We reduce small- transaction credit card charges, and the customer spends less time at a shopping cart- just click and download," Frank says, but well let you know when you need a new multi-pak, you can be sure.

Frank is familiar with the folk music "industry". A working musician for 25 years, Frank has played with the Tony-Award winning Red Clay Ramblers for the past twelve years. He started efolkMusic initially as a way for the Ramblers to keep in touch with their fans when the band was not touring, and realized that many fellow musicians could also benefit from a site dedicated to their under-serviced niche, and that users could benefit from a "discriminating" catalog. "There are plenty of non-discriminating mp3 sites out there." Frank says. We discriminate, helping our users find the good music.

The folk music market, including bluegrass, gospel, Celtic, and roots music, accounts for about 2% of the overall music market, and has been under-serviced by a mass-market oriented recording industry. Artists who sell small quantities are inevitably the first to be removed as retailers restock, an economic and not an artistic decision. The result has been a shrinking selection of folk music in traditional retail outlets. Frank sees an opportunity for "leveraging the infrastructure of the internet" to reverse this trend.

"It's very interesting, how virtually every independent artist is telling me 'Let's try it, we've got nothing to lose', and almost every small/medium size label I talk to is says 'We're not sure what we are going to do...we are waiting to make any decisions...' I go along with Strauss Zelnick (BMG CEO), believing 'all spinning formats will be replaced by chip-based products, within two or three years.' That may be optimistic, but then, Im an optimist- were going for it.

efolkMusic.com offices

316 Reade Rd. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 919-967-6587

520 Grand Ave. Spencer, IA 51301 712-262-3077 x11