Did CD Baby sell out indie artists on digital distribution?
Tim wrote: I understand with itms you’re paying for exposure and convenience and apple-flavored goodwill, but what is CDBaby offering, other than serving up preview listens, handling the transaction, and providing a one-use-only download link to each paying customer? I wonder if there are free, drop-in “music store” applications for artists who run their own websites. The tech side shouldn’t be that hard a problem, and if you’re working in small volumes (as a local indie artist) your bandwidth cost + Paypal fees would be far less than $.25 for every song purchased. Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 9:50 am | Permalink Kevin Breuner wrote: Peter, We always appreciate the passion in which artist weigh in on topics when we make changes. That means we’re doing something right if people care. However, I do want to point out a pretty big omission in your article above. The fee change DOES NOT effect the digital distribution we already do to iTunes where we are the “middle man.” This only effect down
