[NewMusic] tune core?

[Cypod]

I noticed tunecore in the guitar center catalogue too. Digging into it,
looks like it costs 99c per service listing and takes a few weeks to go
live. All in all not a bad deal. i.e. small amount (my estimate ~$5) to get
your songs in the standard places: itunes, emusic, napster, rhapsidy.
Shouldn't be too hard to make the money back. The free options that I have
found so far are myspace, and broadjam, but consumers may be less willing to
try something new out, instead of a service that they are more comfortable
with. Lots of sales opportunities, now to come up with some music worth
selling = repeat customers.

The day of selling a $15 album are over, now each track has to be good so
that people will download the next. One bad one could make someone less
likely to want to buy another. Also the first 10 to 30 seconds are now very
import for getting those undecided downloaders.






On 4/12/07, amar at ptank.com <amar at ptank.com> wrote:
>
> I've been using CDBaby for digital distribution, and I've gotten more $$
> from them for digital sales than CD sales...
>
>
> > IODA, Seems great so far they do the bulk of the work and it gets
> > everywhere, but I have not gotten any statements yet and it has been a
> > few months.
> >
> > Damon
> >
> >
> > On Apr 12, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Matthew Goodheart wrote:
> >
> >> I looked into that and IODA a while ago: I don't remember specifics,
> >> but each had advantages depending on what you wanted/were. For example,
> >> IODA is good if you're a label, but if you're just promoting you own
> >> work, it didn't work for me so well. I went with CDBaby, which does
> >> digital as well as physical distribution, and I like them very much. I
> >> set up a couple albums for digital only distribution through them,
> >> since they were physically available other places and I didn't want to
> >> conflict with other physical distributors. And I've made .63¢ already!!
> >>   I think Raskin uses CDBaby, too.
> >>
> >> Good luck
> >> mg
> >>
> >> On Apr 12, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Tom Bickley wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hey Kids!
> >>>
> >>> Thanks to the latest Guitar Center catalog (which I read only until
> >>> someone opens a nationwide chain of "Recorder Center"s and sends me
> >>> their catalog including a fipple flute tuner and chord finder) has a
> >>> page about TuneCore http://www.tunecore.com It has some interesting
> >>> aspects, and some problematic ones (of course). Anyone have
> >>> experience with it?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks! Pax, -Tom
> >>
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