News bills: From bad to worse
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I recently wrote an extensive analysis and criticism of a proposed
California link tax, offering many alternatives. A state senator just
proposed his own...
2 days ago
wait, i'm confused. so is it 25% for digital downloads from CDBaby and 9% for tracks sold through vendors like CDBaby? or are they gonna take 25% from CDBaby digital downloads AND distribution?
ReplyDeletethanks!
The way I understand it, 25% is downloads from CDBaby & it's still 9% of revenues from iTunes & others.
ReplyDeleteThe comment just above mine is accurate, to the best of my understanding. I tried to update my post to reflect that without going into a tangent about their various rates, which wasn't really the point.
ReplyDeleteThanks for including my writing in this dialog. As I said in my post, I don't think CDBaby necessarily has an bad intent, but I think they've transformed from "good guy" to "necessary evil" - just like most of the other players in music distribution.