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Old June 9th, 2009, 01:19 PM   #5 (permalink)
wetland10
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Originally Posted by The Saint View Post
I would use Tunecore for digital distribution.

www.tunecore.net

You pay a one-time fee to register your EP and you keep all the money it earns (as opposed to giving CD Baby 9% forever). You also have more control over the artwork etc. and they get your music on every legal download site (iTunes, Napster, Emusic, Rhapsody etc.).

Unless you are a touring band selling CD's at your shows or already have a large fanbase, why bother pressing CD's? Did you sell enough of your current EP to justify the expense of manufacturing it?

If you do decide to do CD's, I would suggest CD Baby for physical product and Tunecore for digital distribution.

By the way, you can get a discount coupon for Tunecore on Guitar Center's website.

Hope this helps and good luck with your project!
We're an odd group, we aren't looking to make money on our actual CDs. We use them for promotion, send them to radio stations, things like that. We HAND them out at festivals when we play. Just to get them in people's hands and so on. We had 200 copies of our EP at the start of 2008 and today I have 24 left. So we do utilize them.

CD Baby has been OK to just have it around, but maybe we don't even need to sell the hard CD, rather just digital?

Wayne
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