Online Music Distributors
Hooking up with an independent online music store that handles sales, gives you a fair cut, and doesn’t try to glom your copyrights is no longer a fantasy, and you have many to choose from. Here is a sampling of sites with different approaches to distributing music and compensating artists.
Magnatune’s (http://www.magnatune.com/) motto is “We are not evil.” They have another motto that I like better: “You get great music, musicians get 50%.” That’s 50 percent of sales, not profits. Magnatune distributes music in several DRM-free formats: streaming only, which is like listening to the radio, downloads in various formats, CD, and licenses for commercial use. All music is try-before-you-buy, and customers can either select ...
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