Taika-Kim Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 What have people been using? Does it generally pay these days anymore to have distribution agency for CDs? I'm making a 1000 piece run of the next CD, and was wondering if I should try to contact distributors for this... As opposed to licking envelopes for the next 40 months, my house filled with CDs... What kind of deals are there even available for small independent artists...? The again I would like to keep the prices low, so how much do they generally slice off the price for themselves`? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoebis Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Hey Kim! 1000 is for sure way too much, even big names don't sell much more then 800 cds any longer... So start pressing 500 maximum The best way is indeed via a distributor. Try Arabesque for that they are reliable! We never had any problem with them The standard price you get is around 5.5€ at the moment for each sold cd. If you want to keep prices low, you can start your own webshop for your music, but it will be a lot of work for a little income Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taika-Kim Posted February 18, 2012 Author Share Posted February 18, 2012 Well, the prices for 1000 are surprisingly close to 500, so I can just give away the rest of the 500 as promotion The difference is just a few hundred euros, I have asked from about a dozen places... I want to have an ecological packaging, and found something great, a really special interesting folding package from Wewow, from recycled cardboard, and no plastic tray. So that's 3 times more expensive than making the CD in China for 0.4€/piece, but worth it I think... I want to support European industry since here we have at least some laws concering the environment, workers etc. But, hmm so if I print the discs, I myself ship a portion of them to Arabesque for example, and they sell it.. Do they generally return unsold discs if they are left unsold after, like, two years, or is it goodbye to all discs when I relieve them to the distributor, regardless if they get sold or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedsound Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 [speedsound Rec] Release your tracks on Beatport! We are selecting new artists to join our label. If your music has a quality send the demo to email: xvibe.com@gmail.com We're releasing EPs with at least three tracks or complete albums. We list some shops that work with us: 121 Music Store Audiojelly Basepoint Media Beatport DJ Tunes iTunes Music Store Juno / DJ Download Mixed Up Music The Auditorium Thumbplay Track It Down Tunes 4 Djs Fidel.ru iRecordings.ru 24/7 Entertainment 7 Digital Amazon AOL Arvato Mobile Aspiro BeatsDigital Dance Music Hub Dance Tunes DJ Shop eMusic FineTunes FNAC Global Groove Digital HITLAB InProdicon Jamba! / Jamster! Jamendo JamVana MasterBeat MediaNet / Music Net Musicload / T-Online Musicstar Musiwave Napster Net Mobile Nokia Music Store / OD2 Omnifone PhonoFile DK / Basepoint Media RealNetworks / Streamman Rhapsody / RealNetworks Satellite Records SecuryCast Simfy Spotify TETA (Israel) Traxsource Virgin Mega Store You-Load.com + Infos: http://speedsoundrec.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taika-Kim Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 Well, my existing digital distribution covers most of those already, I think, and I prefer to manage my own music myself. But thanks for the offer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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