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Newspapers can be jerks
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In my paper on the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), I examine
the history of newspapers’ hostile reception of new technologies and
competit...
3 days ago
Monday, August 10, 2009
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It's the one month anniversary of the relaunch - and where are we today? Better? Worse? Treading water?
ReplyDeleteA rollback is what I held out hope for - as there seem way too many tech glitches and funny things happening in the programming to be solvable by an army of CD Baby staffers.
I've not focussed on the forums etc. for the past couple of weeks, so I don't know if there's any trend. Are people hopeful, or resigned to tragedy, or what?!
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I lose more hope as time goes on. The forum turn-over seems to be high. People just discovering the mess are posting and those who already know about it are wandering away.
ReplyDeleteIt sure seems like a couple of canaries have stoppped singing.
They seem to take care of problems with new releases but the system wide glitches continue. I can see six months from now being more of the same.
ReplyDeleteIt has become a bad soap opera that i can't stop watching.
I´d have to echo most of what you guys have said above: I got sick of watching things fall apart on the forums, and since I didn´t have major issues to fix in my persoanl account, I sort of wandered away from the thing.
ReplyDeleteIn the course of my daily business, too, I simply don´t have the time to keep up with it all. I consider myself to be a reluctant blogger at best. However, I still see the need for this independent spot for CDBaby artists to hang out and trade info with each other.
I don't trust them any more - it's very strange what's going on, and payments are less and less. It's also flabbergasting that none was fired for this fiasco - maybe it was intentional?!
ReplyDeletePost here, as they prefer to keep it there.
I don't intend on using CD Baby for any new releases. I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. I doubt they care too much about a certain number of artists walking away (I'm sure that was factored in the plan).
ReplyDeleteIndependents need to think long term and build a catalog with a distributor that's solid. These guys aren't solid. It's not the company it was. There's no reason to be loyal to a company that can't deliver. This is the business side of creating for all of us and they've dropped the ball. There's no point in waiting for 'em. Time to move on.
I am sure though they are not comfortable with people going away. 55$ thousand times a week was nice income . That one had dropped already...they couldn't predict how hard a balance act this indie biz is.
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