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BANDS READ THIS - CD Baby

  • 13-06-2006 8:30am
    #1
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭


    For those of you who are members of www.cdbaby.com or interested in becoming members. I've been talking to Derek Sivers who is the owner of CDBaby, He's going to be in Dublin on July 4th and wants to meet everyone whos involved or is interested in being involved for a few pints and a chat.
    This is going down in Eamon Dorans at around 7PM on July 4th.
    If you need more information either gimme a shout or mail the man at meetup@cdbaby.com.

    What is CDBABY? - From the website

    Who/What are we?

    * CD Baby is a little online record store that sells CDs by independent musicians.
    * [In•de•pen•dent: (adj.) Not having sold one's life, career, and creative works over to a corporation.]
    * We're just a few people (details here) in a cool Portland, Oregon, CD warehouse that looks like a playground. We listen to every CD we sell before we sell it, so we can help you find other albums you'll like.
    * We only sell CDs that come directly from the musicians. No distributors. Musicians send us CDs. We warehouse them, sell them to you, and pay the musicians directly.
    * Cool thing: in a regular record deal or distribution deal, musicians only make $1-$2 per CD, if they ever get paid by their label. When selling through CD Baby, musicians make $6-$12 per CD, and get paid weekly.
    * In business, and thriving, since March 1998. We're the largest seller of independent CDs on the web.

    History:

    * I was just selling my own CD in 1997, making my living by touring and doing sessions, and asked some fellow musicians if they'd like me to sell their CD, too. It was supposed to be a hobby. (Making music was my real career!)
    * For the first year, CD Baby was just me. I'd put the day's orders in my backpack and ride my bike down to the post office..
    * But then friends told friends, and now my little hobby has sold over $25 MILLION in independent CDs to people around the world.


Comments

  • #2
    miju
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,486 ✭✭✭miju


    CD Baby is well worth the €25 per CD to get decnt online distribution of yer music , I reckon I'll be heading along to this

    thread stickied


  • #3
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    If you are interested in attending this please mail me at mahbrain@gmail.com or PM me here


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