Felsen: Improved Accounting & August iTunes

Brian Felsen's "weekly" update finally arrived this morning. Click it above. . .

I almost missed it while stumbling upon another Felsen post "Share Your Holiday Promotional Ideas!" At first I thought the "holiday" post was his only contribution in two weeks, so I was about to write a sarcastic piece about all the fluffy stuff we've been seeing over there:

"FiXT Launches New Remix Community & Celldweller"

"2009 International Songwriting Competition"

"Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit--CD Baby Artist Discount" and

"Be on a Tribute Album w/members of Twisted Sister, Cinderella, Quiet Riot + more"

Almost without exception, these threads have drawn only derisive comments from CD Baby artists. One of the above threads was beginning to turn into an all-out flame war.

But is it really any wonder that people are inflamed these days? Though it's been about 10 weeks since relaunch, on the world wide web 10 weeks is an eternity. It certainly "seems" like it's been more like six months or a year of this disaster (brought to us by CD Baby) than only two months or so. And that's why it "feels" somewhat ridiculous to have to wait for another 10 weeks (or a half a year, or more) for the Baby to get its pathetic act together.

Nevertheless, thanks, Brian, for the fortnightly update, even if it hasn't much reduced rampant speculation on the forum and elsewhere--speculation which is a direct result of your apparently deliberate policy of allowing only the driest trickle of information to emanate from your office.