Doonesbury Say What?

"If it's 2012 and our party is defined by Palin and Limbaugh and Cheney, then we're headed for a blowout. That's just the truth."
-- GOP strategist John Weaver

At least Stewart & Colbert will be guaranteed an uninterrupted flow of material.

Trent Reznor and Keith Richards selling albums through Amazon partnership: your band can too for $35

It's a curious thing. You upload your artwork, music, liner notes, etc. to Amazon and pay them "$31 a year in upfront fees to handle a 10-track CD from pressing to delivery, passing all other costs through to the buyer." The artist makes about 40% of the charged price, "If one of Amazon’s 80 million customers buys your 10-song CD on Amazon for $8.98, you’ll receive $3.59. After selling just nine discs, you’re in the black."

Interesting proposition. You're not getting the promotion of a major label, but you're getting a heck of a leg up with distribution. Some of the comments on the article dispute the economics of the system vs burning your own discs to sell at gigs, I wonder if there's something in the fine print that says that you can't do both.

At any rate, have to send this article on to my brother and a couple of friends.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/05/amazon-to-unveil-on-demand-cd-printing-service-with-tunecore/