Selling own recordings online: Advice please

[Born 2B Mild]

After a year of recording bits in our spare time, we ...[b]Angie Shaw [/b](band) have produced an album of original songs, entitled [i]The Other Side Of Blue[/i]. We have had a short run of CDs produced and our hope for these is to open doors ...to better gigs, find our audience etc.

We aren't in it for the money, though wouldn't mind some revenue to pay for the recording/CDs, and recognise that some folk that aren't able to come to gigs, will want to either order a CD or download the songs.

Can anyone who self-publishes, give us tips on what we should do to make this possible? We aren't able to do our own online things, bar MySpace (see link below), and so would want to use an existing payment/download thing.

[odub]

Use CD baby, or the slightly easier Catapult distribution. They'll sort out everything for you and get your songs on iTunes/napster etc. They take a 9% cut and itunes take there bit too. But you don't pay for aanything apart from the barcode and initial set up, anout £35.

Then knock up a website and use paypal merchandise to create a paypal button. Here's my version: [url="http://www.felt-tip-records.co.uk/"]http://www.felt-tip-records.co.uk/[/url]

[Born 2B Mild]

[quote name='odub' post='213956' date='Jun 6 2008, 04:42 PM']Use CD baby, or the slightly easier Catapult distribution. They'll sort out everything for you and get your songs on iTunes/napster etc. They take a 9% cut and itunes take there bit too. But you don't pay for aanything apart from the barcode and initial set up, anout £35.

Then knock up a website and use paypal merchandise to create a paypal button. Here's my version: [url="http://www.felt-tip-records.co.uk/"]http://www.felt-tip-records.co.uk/[/url][/quote]
Thanks. I'll check all of this out!