I usually sit on the sidelines and learn by listening, but as an owner of several music labels, I am obligated to share with my fellow readers/listeners that there is no viable market place for physical CDs. Our CD inventory which was in excess of 1 million units 18 months ago is now non-existent. Our sole focus is Digital Downloads [see our ad in The Lute Society Quarterly or visit our web site www.arabesquerecords.com ].
Our Digital Downloads are not only cheaper there are no costs of any kind to the artist(s), plus under our program, cash flow begins with the first sale. If anyone is interested please contact us at the address shown below. Regards, Marvin Marvin M. Reiss, Ph.D. Arabesque Recordings, LLC 60 East 42nd Street - Suite 2028 New York, New York 10165 (212) 730-5000 phone (212) 730-8316 fax mar...@arabesquerecords.com e-mail -----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of alexander Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 12:14 PM To: Karl Wohlwend Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: New post - Taking CD home Actually, my son, who is a working musician, and a hungry one at that, now instead of the CDs sells at his concerts a link with the password to download site provided to him by the company that normally prints his CDs. It is quite a bit cheaper for him and for the listener, can be used on any device (iPhone, iPad, blah, blah), and the audience still walks away with the music, while he does not have to lug around kilos of CDs. So, this particular train is leaving the station already. alexander r On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:28:29 -0400 Karl Wohlwend <kwoh...@gmail.com> wrote: > CDs still have a place in the world for those of us who play concerts. > The digital revolution hasn't yet found a way to satisfy those > audience members who want to take a souvenir home with them, and > performers always need gas and food money. They also make fine > business cards. Now, profit is another story altogether... > > Karl Wohlwend > 503 E Weber Rd > Columbus OH 43202 > 614.405.2300 > > Classical Guitar Performance and Instruction > www.columbusclassicalguitar.com > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
