Amazon Createspace – Get your film in front of millions of Amazon customers.No annual fee and a much smoother checkout experience than PayPal. Square Merchant – Online and in-person credit card processing for your films, whether you’re selling DVDs online or at events, even comes with a free credit card reader that plugs into your iPhone or Android device.Quite cost effective for low budget documentary filmmakers and you can even bundle deleted scenes with your work. No annual fee, you only pay a tiny percentage of each sale. Gumroad works with either streaming or downloads and can do rentals as well. Gumroad – Set your own price and sell your film online.Here are some of our favorite resources for selling a film online: These tips work for indie filmmakers, whether you’re making shorts or feature-length movies. If you pick your distribution services right, you can get away with just paying a small percentage of each actual sale to the distributor. But distributing your film online can cost next to nothing– if you choose an option that doesn’t have a setup fee or an annual fee (which unfortunately Vimeo does do– to the tune of $200/year regardless of whether you sell any downloads or not).
Making a batch of 1,000 DVDs or Blu-Rays isn’t always cost-effective for low budget documentaries unless you’re sure that you can sell them all.
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