Thinking about moving into the 20th century

[ericcoleman]

CD sales are way down ... what do you think?

[Poll #1149964]

Comments

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Why don't you move into the 19th Century and have a store for Edison Cylinders?

[ericcoleman]

Ummm, gee, thanks for your help and taking a stand on this

[artpaulrocks.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about the cylinders but 7 inch records are still quite popular and if you go to the right good will you can get a record player that the needle still works.

[billroper]

I'd go the easy way and do it through CDBaby.

[ericcoleman]

I was looking at the Myspace service, and they take a BIG chunk of the money, something like 40% in the end. I hadn't thought of CD Baby, I'm going to take a look at that tonight.

[quadrivium.livejournal.com]

I really like CD Baby. They take only $4 off the top regardless of price. The service is more personal. I'm selling on Amazon too, but they gouge your profits mightily.

[ericcoleman]

Does that include mp3s ???

[billroper]

No, the MP3s you get 91% of the sale price. It's $4 off per physical album.

[ericcoleman]

You two pointed the direction, Marc Gunn and Tom Smith said do it ... it's done ...

thanks for the help ... all of it ...

[artpaulrocks.livejournal.com]

Yes I agree.

CD Baby not only can still sell your CD and sell your download but they will also be your distributer to Apple iTune,Europe iTunes,Canada iTunes,Japan iTunes and rhapsody as well verizon, & napster.

You get money for CD downloads,single downloads, and even when someone just listens.

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to put together a 'And Now The Fun Stuff' digital collection and put it up for sale at <a href="http://www.TheMadmusicArchive.com>The Mad Music Archive</a>. Check out who else is in the mp3 store.

[ericcoleman]

I've that setup actually. I may do that. Send me email me at ericcoleman at gmail dot com and let's talk about it.

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

I think I figure it out. Why are CD sales down?

Record store just don't advertise anymore. If labels and stores don't advertise, how do you think we will hear about the music?

-Ryan

[ericcoleman]

CD sales are down for face to face sales, like Marscon.

The day of the album is going away, the day of the downloadable track is taking over.

[singingpatient.livejournal.com]

yes i brought up this point recently on both this group and on a folk list. i got a few weird answers and some really good ones. but generally, i agree, the cd format is slowly dying.

for the near future, we're going to have to keep making cds *and* doing digital. we got into a discussion here in LJ about duplicated vs replicated, doing shorter ruins of cds instead of 1000, etc. prices of replication have mercifully come down of late, so at least doing a reprint of another 1000 isn't going to break my bank (especially if i end up having to reprint 2 projects at the same time), though it will still jam my garage full of boxes for a while!