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Amazon & TuneCore To Cut Out the RIAA Middleman
eldavojohn writes "So you're an aspiring band and you haven't signed with a record label. Maybe you've got a fan base interested in purchasing your stuff but you're not really into accounting? Enter Amazon's partnership with TuneCore, a CD printing and music distribution service. You want to sell a full album on Amazon of you brushing your teeth? $31. And you get about 40% back on sales, so selling nine digital copies of your CD will put you back in the black. There you have it, public availability on one of the largest online commerce sites for $31 — no RIAA involved!" TuneCore's CEO put it this way: "As an artist, you have unlimited physical inventory, made on demand, with no [sic] upfront costs and worldwide distribution to anyone who orders it at Amazon.com."
The format kind of sounds like Amie Street - but much less efficient, and much more likely to fail.
Sure go and sell your shitty music on amazon and bypass the "draconian biz model" as the /tards says but remember
Ultimately the fucking tools here and everywhere will just f'ing donwload it for free anyway as soon as another f'ing tool decides to share his hard drive.
Bottom line, your fucked, get a real career path
well, I'm glad to see we finally got someone of your calibre onboard, I mean to say, without your support, we'd have been a lost hope!
Glad to see you backing the good team!
Who the fuck reads the article? This summary should never have made it past the fire hose. I blame stupid slashdotters for ranking up stories which are interesting but which don't pass basic journalistic muster. I sometimes use the firehose, but it is WAY too fucking painful these days. What a terrible abortion of a UI.
Sometimes I RTFA. Sometimes I don't, and just RTFS. Too bad RTFS is retarded. Even worse that firehose users are.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I'm sorry my stories don't pass 'journalistic muster.' I read the entire FAQ and didn't see anything about said muster, could you please expound upon that claim that submissions must pass it?
Congratulations on living up to the minimum possible standards. Making slashdot grate, one story at a time.
Also, I believe you are misplacing your disgust with the Firehose and directing it at users. This confuses me, as the users did not implement it.
No, no. The firehose sucks, AND the people using it suck.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I'm not a logician but if all who use the firehose suck ... and you yourself use it ... Wait, I think I've got it but I'm not sure. I shall construct a predicate calculus of these two rules and get back to you once I can conclude something from them.
Slashdot is a whole site predicated on the concept of being different in a crowd — News for nerds. Different, just like everybody else. A unique snowflake, lost in a blizzard of unique snowflakes. Anyway, let me correct my earlier statement; I have used the Firehose on occasion, but I have ultimately found it far too painful to continue. So perhaps I once sucked, but have given it up.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"