When
your CD manufacturing project is completed, the hard work of promoting
and selling your release begins. Disc Makers' Ultimate Web Sales and
Distribution Bundle gets you up and running right away. Through our
partnership with CD Baby, the world's premiere all-independent online
CD store, you get worldwide distribution when you order your CDs from
Disc Makers. You can trust CD Baby to provide you with online retail
sales of your CDs as well as sales of song downloads through today’s
most popular music download sales sites like iTunes and Rhapsody.
Best of all, unlike other online distributors, most of the money from
the sale goes directly to you, and you’ll get paid every week
for the music you’ve sold!
Disc
Makers is working together with CD Baby to get you the sales outlet
you deserve. When you sign up for the Ultimate Web Sales and Distribution
Bundle, we'll pre-register you with CD Baby, one of the largest CD
sellers, and ship five of your CDs straight to them, saving you the
hassle of filling out registration forms, the cost of shipping your
discs, and their $35 registration fee. We offer you a genuine musician-friendly
distribution...
• A distributor that pays you every week for CDs sold. • A store that gives you the full contact info (name, address,
email, etc.) for every person that buys your CD. • A company that is non-exclusive, lets you set your own CD
price, and only takes a small fee of sales to cover their costs. • Full accounting where you can log in to see every sale, every
payment, and communicate directly with a real person at the company. • A distributor that works only with independent artists like
you, so you're given red-carpet treatment, not taking a backseat to
major-label artists.
Worldwide download sales of your music. Through
our partnership with CD Baby, they will encode your music and distribute
digital copies of your songs to legitimate paying online e-tailers,
like Apple’s iTunes store, Rhapsody, Sony Connect, eMusic.com,
AOL's MusicNet, BuyMusic.com, the new Napster, Music Match,* and many
more to come! New retail partners are added all the time.
Best of all, CD Baby keeps only 9% of the net income generated from
your online digital sales, and they'll pay you every week! They’ve
been selling and distributing CDs for independent artists since 1998,
and have paid over $4 million to artists. While other companies wanting
to do digital distribution must face the significant start-up expenses
of building a new system from scratch, CD Baby already encodes every
CD that comes in their door and are already paying artists every week.
All that's added is delivering your audio files to the music services.
(*These services are not required to carry your
music. CD Baby will submit it for their consideration, but they always
have final right of refusal.)
NOTE: IF
YOU ORDERED PRIOR TO JANUARY 2007, YOU CAN STILL SIGN UP MANUALLY
USING YOUR DISC MAKERS CLIENT NUMBER
Starting in January 2007, CD Baby became available exclusively through
the Ultimate Web Sales & Distribution bundle. If you ordered before
that, you have already received our exclusive Aftercare Kit, which
includes a special CD Baby information sheet and coupon with your
unique client number printed on it. You must use that client number
to qualify for your free setup and free membership.
Once you have the sheet with your Disc Makers client number, just
follow these steps:
1. First, click
here to fill out the CD Baby online submission form. The online
submission form will ask you for your Disc Makers client number. Your
client number is located at the bottom of the CD Baby flyer that was
included in your Disc Makers Aftercare Kit.
2. If you'd also like to have
your songs available for download sales, click on the “Digital”
button at the top of the page after your have completed your CD Baby
online submission form, read the CD Baby
Digital Distribution Agreement carefully and click on the button to
agree to the terms.
3. Fill in the coupon at the
bottom of the CD Baby flyer that was included in your Disc Makers
Aftercare Kit. Make sure you’ve checked the appropriate box
on the front of the coupon – choose to get both FREE digital
download distribution and worldwide CD distribution, or Free worldwide
CD distribution only. Mail the completed coupon along with 5 copies
of your CD to:
CD Baby
5925 NE 80 Ave.
Portland, OR 97218-2891
Important: When you sign up, you will need an email address
that you check regularly because CD Baby will email youwhen they
need you to send more CDs, when you’ve sold CDs, and just
to keep in touch with you in general. If you don’t have an
email address, you can get one for free from mail.yahoo.com.
