Selling CDs w/o Getting Caught Up In Details?

Geoffrey Wiseman asks: "I was talking to a music artist the other day who was interested in setting up a store for her new disc, which she's maintaining the rights to, for the first time. Building the store itself is something I can do, but she needs credit cards processed, discs warehoused and shipped, ideally with order tracking. Someone to take care of the real-world pieces of the picture, since she's touring most of the time and can't possibly process transactions, stuff packages and mail them out. Her volume would presumably be low, so it would ideally be fairly low-cost, otherwise it just won't be feasible. While I know some major providers, I don't know anyone in the range she'd need, with maybe 10-50 orders a week at most. Telephone/fax order-processing and online storefront infrastructure are bonuses but by no means required. Anyone know a transaction and fulfillment house that would handle that kind of volume without charging extremely high fees?" It's all about finding new ways of distributing familiar things, without selling your soul (and the rights to your art) in the process. Updated: Title changed to something that better reflected the question. Thanks to all who pointed this out.

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The answer I've choosen for book publishing

[arete]

I've recently become the publisher of a book (release date is GenCon - 2 Aug 2001) It'll be available for preorder starting 1 Apr 2001 at www.xig.net/starchildren and I'm very aware that the website isn't up yet - it's not 1 Apr 2001, is it?

I did some pretty extensive research and decided to only accept PayPal. - at 2.2% (worst-case) and no other fees the disadvantages of not having a true merch acct are far outweighed by the savings.
For fufillment, I'm essentially hiring a friend as a subcontractor to fufill them and keep the handling charge... I can't find another good way to do low-volume like this. I'll simply give them an email address for complaints, etc... unless I can find something better for this side of the equation.
this solution is not the most hands-off, but it's much more economical than anything I've yet found. I've emailed you, and I read replies, but I don't leave my address on /.