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Posted in industry | music on August 7, 2008
CD Baby sells business to Disc Makers
"But now my new projects are exciting me so much that I decided to hand over CD Baby to someone that's going to make it better than ever for you. I chose Disc Makers as the new owner because their president Tony Van Veen has been one of my favorite people for years, and I always felt they'd do a better job of running CD Baby than I would." [CD Baby founder Derek Sivers]
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Posted on August 7, 2008 11:52 AM
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There goes the neighborhood.
Posted by greg | August 7, 2008 11:56 AM
is this news?
Posted by Anonymous | August 7, 2008 12:13 PM
Doesn't it seem a bit irresponsible/unnecessary to announce to your customer base that you're selling because you like the person you're selling it to?
Posted by Anonymous | August 7, 2008 12:18 PM
Ah, it's just another monopoly in the music world, albeit on the smallest playing field possible. Speaking as someone that's used both these services for years, I see it as pretty bad for CD Baby users -- discmakers has incredibly inept customer service (as I found out in the last weeks) and CD Baby, while somewhat archaic, has created a fantastic service for indie musicians. We'll see how this pans out.
Posted by greg | August 7, 2008 12:44 PM
who buys cds?
Posted by Anonymous | August 7, 2008 12:45 PM
Maybe that's why I'm suddenly getting e-mail from the. Haven't ordered from them in maybe 3 or 4 years -- then all of a sudden a few days ago I started getting "here's some CDs you might wanna buy" e-mails.
Posted by Amy | August 7, 2008 12:52 PM
Considering CD Baby never manufactured CDs or anything, it was essentially pointless for a musician to waste money on the service after services like Tunecore began providing iTunes/Amazon distribution to anyone who paid a few bucks. You could always just sell CDs at shows.
Posted by Anonymous | August 7, 2008 6:08 PM
Turns out Discmakers is owned by a NYC investment bank called Corinthian. There goes the indie vibe!
Posted by Anonymous | August 7, 2008 10:14 PM
Hopefully they will do away with CD Baby's horrible, amateurish logo.
Or better yet, change the name entirely.
Posted by fixilator | August 8, 2008 9:19 AM
I am going to hitzmusic.com Indie site that is for a artist
Posted by John | January 9, 2009 3:26 PM