Published Price to Dealer
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In the music industry, the Published Price to Dealer (PPD) is the wholesale
unit price
of a recorded work. It is often used in recording industry contracts as a basic figure for defining royalty shares
.
Wholesale
Wholesaling, jobbing, or distributing is defined as the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users, or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services...
unit price
Unit price
Average prices represent, quite simply, total sales revenue divided by total units sold. Many products, however, are sold in multiple variants, such as bottle sizes. In these cases, managers face a challenge: they must determine “comparable” units. Average prices can be calculated by weighting...
of a recorded work. It is often used in recording industry contracts as a basic figure for defining royalty shares
Royalties
Royalties are usage-based payments made by one party to another for the right to ongoing use of an asset, sometimes an intellectual property...
.