Wired.com is reporting that TuneCore is going to partner with Amazon to offer CD’s printed and distributed on demand. TuneCore will charge only $31 per year to prepare a 10-track CD. Music lovers will buy the CD’s on Amazon’s website, and musicians will get 40% of the proceeds.
TuneCore has generate $32 million in sales in the past 22 months, so it seems independent musicians are increasingly warming up to the idea to release on TuneCore and completely cut the studios out of the process.
Given the increasingly sophisticated prosumer sound equipment available to indie musicians, it seems the major studios more and more have no answer to question, “Why sign with a studio?”
I think the beginning of the end (or at least major changes) for major label recording studios are in sight.
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I wouldn’t count the major studios out yet. Obviously they provide a lot of exposure that you wouldn’t get without a studio even in this age of youtube, facebook, etc.