Comments on: Is Amazon The New Self-Publish Kingpin?

By: Michael Wolf

Michael Wolf — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:45:38 +0000

I knew I should have just said “ask Paul Bonanos”

Thanks Paul for the info! Very helpful.

By: Paul Bonanos

Paul Bonanos — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:40:18 +0000

Actually it’s pretty easy for an independent artist to get into the iTunes and AmazonMP3 stores without establishing a direct relationship with either Apple or Amazon. There are distributors such as TuneCore and CDBaby that charge artists a one-time flat fee, an annual renewal, and/or a cut of sales, in exchange for distributing music to various online stores (and sometimes subscription services). It can be a very good deal for a self-publishing artist, although it’s still mostly a long-tail thing.

By: Michael Wolf

Michael Wolf — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:46:03 +0000

I am not too familiar with the music publishing terms for iTunes, but I think you probably need an established record label to get onto iTunes music store, and probably the same for Amazon. iTunes is pretty forgiving on their podcast publishing terms, however, and that’s where you see alot of grassroots content producers (though not necessarily music) putting content.

Amazon’s ebook publishing process is very easy and allows writers to set pretty much all the terms for price, etc. I don’t think you’ll ever see a music store from Amazon or Apple with nearly as friendly and easy publishing terms as you see with Amazon today for its Kindle bookstore.

By: Philip Leigh

Philip Leigh — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:58:07 +0000

Do you think that musical recording artists could do like Konrath? That is record their own works and sell them as downloads at Amazon.com or iTunes.