Tunecore
The tide seems to be turning with internet music sales, as bands take control of their assets and start making the descisions themselves. Following on from our article about distribution platform Top Spin, check out Tunecore, which offers artists the opportunity to get their music onto all the major platforms (iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic, Amazon etc).
They charge incredibly reasonable fees per track/album, leading the the astounding fact that Trent Reznor must have paid Tunecore $56.61 to distribute his Ghosts I - IV album via Amazon.
Meanwhile, Amazon's MP3 store hits the UK soon, while Yahoo Music has gone the way of the dodo - potentially leaving music fans with a ton of unplayable, DRM 'protected' music.
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