At 12:20 PM 12/17/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>>(just read an email from Steev where he clarified the above contentions
>>of going to a label. He meant, the good guy labels, Seeland, Illegal Art,
>>etc.)
>>
>>Seeland's distributor, however, will ask for more money, like at least
>>another thousand to pay for distribution costs. That means everyone
>>needs to donate more money, at least for them to sign it.
>
>Maybe I misunderstood what you're trying to say here, but when Seeland
>decides to release something, the distributor takes their CUT from the
>sales, which is about 21%, then Seeland takes an additional percentage
>(generally 7%), and we give the remainder to the artist. And "money" has
>exactly zero to do with how we approve or do not approve a project for
>release; the manufacturing costs are borne by the artists. We make
>suggestions but not a budget.
So they don't charge you ANYTHING? That amazes me. What's stopping an artist
from going directly to a distributor for a release then, and bypassing a
label? Do you
have to be a label for a distributor to put your stuff out?
I thought the last time I was talking to Don about it, you guys needed a
certain dollar
amount down, aside from the fact you needed to approve of the release. Though I
might be confusing that with production costs...which I believe he said
1,000 CD's was
the minimum. In this case, we've got that covered.
Though this was like three years ago. You guys still use the same
distributor, yes?
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