{"id":140,"date":"2008-11-10T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:32:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:32:47","slug":"advantages-of-digital-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/advantages-of-digital-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Advantages of Digital Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal<\/w:view> <w:zoom>0<\/w:zoom> <w:punctuationkerning><\/w:punctuationkerning> <w:validateagainstschemas><\/w:validateagainstschemas> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false<\/w:saveifxmlinvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false<\/w:ignoremixedcontent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false<\/w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables><\/w:breakwrappedtables> <w:snaptogridincell><\/w:snaptogridincell> <w:wraptextwithpunct><\/w:wraptextwithpunct> <w:useasianbreakrules><\/w:useasianbreakrules> <w:dontgrowautofit><\/w:dontgrowautofit> <w:usefelayout><\/w:usefelayout> <\/w:compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:browserlevel> <\/w:worddocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\"> <\/w:latentstyles> <\/xml><![endif]--><span lang=\"EN-GB\">You already know the advantages that the internet has to offer musicians, you wouldn\u2019t be reading this site if you weren\u2019t interested in exploiting them. You\u2019re still unconvinced? Digital distribution, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Your music reaches a bigger audience than ever before, more people than have ever been into Tower Records, HMV and Virgin Megastores combined have access to your music without either of you leaving home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">More than this, digital distribution costs nothing when compared to physical \u2013 you don\u2019t need to press CD\u2019s or LP\u2019s, you don\u2019t need to package them, warehouse them, ship them, you don\u2019t need to take returns or manage stock, you can just put one copy of a track up with a digital distributor and have infinite copies of your music literally anywhere there\u2019s a phone line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Of course, there are many more ways for people to copy your music without paying for it on the web, but since the cost of getting your music out there is so much less, and a greater proportion of the profits goes to the artist having cut out so much of the bulky record company structure, you\u2019ll probably end up making more money anyhow.You certainly keep a bigger proportion of the revenue from the sales you do make.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The truth is that the internet is inescapable as a medium for music; you just can\u2019t afford to ignore it. Even if you think the internet lays your music too open to piracy, and stick with just releasing CD\u2019s or vinyl, chances are some one of your dedicated fans will encode their copy and put it up on a torrent site anyway, so you might as well give people the <strong>option<\/strong> of buying it legally online\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You already know the advantages that the internet has to offer musicians, you wouldn\u2019t be reading this site if you weren\u2019t interested in exploiting them. You\u2019re still unconvinced? Digital distribution, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways: Your music reaches a bigger audience than ever before, more people than have ever been into Tower Records, HMV and Virgin Megastores combined have access to your music without either of you leaving home. More than this, digital distribution costs nothing when compared to physical \u2013 you don\u2019t need to press CD\u2019s or LP\u2019s, you don\u2019t need to package them,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,143],"tags":[125,148,146,147,138,145],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Advantages of Digital Distribution - RouteNote Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/advantages-of-digital-distribution\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Advantages of Digital Distribution - RouteNote Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You already know the advantages that the internet has to offer musicians, you wouldn\u2019t be reading this site if you weren\u2019t interested in exploiting them. 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