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Sell Your Music on iTunes Music Store
Photo_Designer writes "CD Baby is now accepting music to be sold via digital distibution through iTunes Music Store, Listen.com and others. Their cut is 9 percent. The artists get 91 percent of the sale and retain all the rights to their music. There is a $40 fee for each album submitted. It will be interesting to see how much indie music gets on and how it does. Imagine being a touring indie band and be able to tell people to go to iTunes and buy your songs; it seems this could be a huge boon to musicians wanting to circumvent/boycott/avoid/destroy the RIAA." Note that this is not an agreement to get on iTMS or any other service, only for CD Baby to be your distributor. iTMS can still reject your sorry attempt at fame.
...and skimming a nice 9% profit!
Blar.
Don't be fooled! This site at best is some naive attempt at trying to make some money off honest artists, or this is out-and-out con. RIAA does not share their stage with others very nicely. It is highly UNLIKELY that ITunes will be allowed to carry titles that are not members of RIAA. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on CDBaby's site that guarantee you that you WILL be on ITune for $40. This means that they are basically charging you $40 for NOTHING!!! Unless they have a strong track record, which they don't, or have a public support from places like ITune, which they don't, this is nothing more than some piped dream by some enterprising guy. I cannot believe Slashdot would fall for a scam like this...
No one will buy music there if they have to wade through sludge to find a choice indie band.
... that's okay, neither will anyone else, I don't hate you. Gumdrops don't hate."
Whereas I agree with you in sentiment, there's a problem. There is a whole industry whose job it is to find the new, good, cutting edge stuff and make it available to us at cost. The record industry has failed miserably, and all conspiracy theories aside, I don't think that's because they're not trying (considering as how if even one of them could pull it off, they'd be even filthy stinking richer.)
And now you want to give the seperation of wheat from chaff to people with the sense of taste to make the round translucent green line of personal doorstops?
"Hi, I'm a Macintosh, and I'm nonthreatening because I look edible. Won't you please write software for me?
(attempts not to vomit; fails.)
StoneCypher is Full of BS
how the fuck did i get troll for this? all i did was point out that if an organized, hundred-plus year old industry full of hundreds of companies and thousands of experienced scouts can't do it, then a small computer company probably can't either.
and then i made fun of the iMac.
StoneCypher is Full of BS