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> Fabio - When you're computing your pricing, don't forget to include > your shipping costs for sending the CDs to CD Baby. (From Toronto, > we have to sell 2 or 3 CDs just to pay for shipping a batch there.) Yeah, Amazon is the most annoying on this front. We sell 3-5 copies a month through Amazon's Advantage program. We get about $6 per disc. But Amazon has a totally automated re-order program where, when they sell one disc, you ship them one disc to re-stock. At $1.10 postage per disc, that begins to cut into profits. Not to mention extra trips to the post office. To touch on Fabio's original question, my band has gone through 2 pressings of 1000 of our first disc, released in 2003, and have almost gone through the first pressing of 2000 of our second disc, released last year. Probably 35-40% of the discs have been given away as promo, but we have paid off both discs and are starting to budget for the third. Most, like, the vast majority, of sales have been at gigs. We gig all the time, tour as much as we can. We have a steady trickle of sales from CDBaby and Amazon, of those, the CDBaby sales are much more profitable. We have stuff placed with a number of other internet distributors, and we have generated exactly zero sales through anyone other than CDBaby and Amazon. Definitely sign up CDBaby's digital distribution deal! We also get a steady trickle of income from that as well. We get virtually no radio play, other than a couple of cool college/community stations. Other than a couple of local indie stores where we are close enough to keep up on consignments, our stuff is not carried in stores, definitely not in the big chains. We have gotten uniformly excellent reviews from various print and internet zines. As far as I can tell, these have led to no sales whatsoever. The only way to sell discs in the new economy, as far as I can see it, is to play live. > > >> Hi people, >> In these days I'm working hard to release my new CD. >> It's the first time I produce a "professional CD" and I've some problems >> to solve. >> >> These are the questions: >> - How much copies do you think are right, thinking of web distribution >> (CD >> Baby or similar), promotions, selling at gigs, gifts, etc... >> - What price do you think is good to calculate for one copy in jewel >> case, >> color booklet 2+2 and color inlay card, CD printing and copy, and UPC >> bar >> code ? >> >> If ther's something other interesting I should know, please don't >> hesitate >> to tell me... >> Thanks >> Fabio >> http://xoomer.alice.it/eterogeneo > > >