diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c16c1bb..d95bc17 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "nixamp",
-  "version": "0.72.1",
+  "version": "0.73.0",
   "description": "It really whips the terminal's ass. A Winamp-shaped audio player for your terminal.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "type": "module",
diff --git a/src/guide-vods.ts b/src/guide-vods.ts
index e7567df..984e81f 100644
--- a/src/guide-vods.ts
+++ b/src/guide-vods.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ export interface GuideVod {
 
 /** The bases a price may be put on: what the owner may sell, not just share. */
 export const SELLABLE_BASES: readonly RoomBasis[] = ["owned", "public-domain"];
+/** What a new video of the owner's costs to download unless it says otherwise (Anthony: "$1 per video"). */
+export const VOD_DEFAULT_PRICE_CENTS = 100;
 /** $100: a price above that is a typo. */
 export const VOD_PRICE_MAX_CENTS = 10_000;
 
@@ -318,8 +320,9 @@ export async function handleVods(request: IncomingMessage, response: ServerRespo
     const title = typeof body?.title === "string" ? body.title.trim().slice(0, 160) : "";
     const note = typeof body?.note === "string" ? body.note.trim().slice(0, 300) : "";
     const owner = taken?.by ?? by;
-    // A price, in dollars: only the owner, only on its own, only what it may sell. Left out, the old one stays.
-    let priceCents = taken?.priceCents ?? 0;
+    // A price, in dollars: only the owner, only on its own, only what it may sell. Left out, the old one stays,
+    // and a new one of the owner's that it may sell costs the default.
+    let priceCents = taken ? (taken.priceCents ?? 0) : owner === "" && ctx.canControl && SELLABLE_BASES.includes(basis) ? VOD_DEFAULT_PRICE_CENTS : 0;
     if (body?.price !== undefined && body.price !== null) {
       const cents = Math.round(Number(body.price) * 100);
       if (!ctx.canControl || owner !== "") {
diff --git a/src/library-usage.ts b/src/library-usage.ts
index 000ac53..489d44f 100644
--- a/src/library-usage.ts
+++ b/src/library-usage.ts
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ export const LIBRARY_USAGE = `nixamp library — what this server has, indexed
                                       on demand on live.streaming: a link that plays each from the start,
                                       from any of your servers (needs nixamp login); --here for this server's own guide
                                       (B: owned, permission, licensed, creative-commons, public-domain)
-                                      --price USD: sell it as a download on nixamp.com (guide owner, owned or
-                                      public-domain only; publish again with --price 0 to stop)
+                                      --price USD: its download price on nixamp.com (guide owner, owned or
+                                      public-domain only; new ones default to $1, --price 0 for free)
   nixamp library vods                 what is published on demand, with each link
   nixamp library unpublish VOD        take one off
 
diff --git a/test/guide-vods.test.ts b/test/guide-vods.test.ts
index 73a7829..647d4d2 100644
--- a/test/guide-vods.test.ts
+++ b/test/guide-vods.test.ts
@@ -174,3 +174,25 @@ test("the owner prices its own sellable file; a bought grant redirects to the fi
     rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
   }
 });
+
+test("a new sellable video of the owner's costs $1 unless it says otherwise; a member's is never sold", async () => {
+  const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "vods-"));
+  const store = new VodStore(join(dir, "vods.json"));
+  const probe = new VodProbe(fakeServer(ITEM));
+  let control = true;
+  const { base, close } = await serve({ store, probe, base: "https://live.streaming.pit.world", get canControl() { return control; }, member: async () => (control ? "" : "acct-1") });
+  try {
+    const post = async (body: unknown) => ((await (await fetch(`${base}/api/v1/guide/vods`, { method: "POST", headers: { "content-type": "application/json" }, body: JSON.stringify(body) })).json()) as { vod: { id: string; priceCents?: number } }).vod;
+    assert.equal((await post({ play: PLAY, basis: "public-domain", agree: true })).priceCents, 100);
+    assert.equal((await post({ play: PLAY, basis: "public-domain", agree: true, price: 0 })).priceCents, undefined, "--price 0 makes it free");
+    assert.equal((await post({ play: PLAY, basis: "public-domain", agree: true })).priceCents, undefined, "and it stays free when published again");
+    store.remove((await post({ play: PLAY, basis: "public-domain", agree: true })).id);
+    control = false;
+    const members = await post({ play: PLAY, basis: "owned", agree: true });
+    assert.ok(members.id);
+    assert.equal(members.priceCents, undefined, "a member's video");
+  } finally {
+    close();
+    rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+});