On Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 7:02:20 AM UTC+3, Juanman wrote:
Sean, I was addressing the idea of putting the film on YouTube for free viewing. The day that films are only on iTunes will be a problem for filmmakers, who receive very little revenue from iTunes or Netflix. Same as is happening in music with the disappearance of CDs.

I don't know about Netflix, but film owners receive 70% of the sale price on iTunes, the same as musicians or iPhone App writers.

That's a ten times higher percentage of the retail price than you ever got from selling a physical DVD in a store, with a long distribution chain.

Even selling physical DVDs yourself from home by mail (internet) order, your margins probably aren't near 70%, as you have to pay to make the DVD and case and for shipping.