{"id":1430,"date":"2009-10-12T21:10:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T20:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:31:14","slug":"digital-music-store-focus-insound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/digital-music-store-focus-insound\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Music Store Focus &#8211; Insound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insound.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1431 lazyload\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" title=\"insound\" src=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/insound-300x270.gif\" alt=\"insound\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/insound-300x270.gif 300w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/insound-430x387.gif 430w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/insound.gif 983w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/insound.com\">Insound<\/a> is a minor player with a lot of heart involved in its operation. They essentially act as a blog and record label, picking up and supporting new acts that are to their taste, promoting them and selling their music through the site. They\u2019re a smaller retailer that survives by taking an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insound.com\/about.php\">active interest<\/a> in the bands they sell, keeping their margins high (read higher prices to the consumer \u2013 MP3 downloads $9.99-$10.49) and selling other trendy stuff, badges, bags, books etc. If you can convince them that you\u2019re worth selling they\u2019ll really make an effort to put you out in front of their indie audience, with promotional tools like free MP3 downloads and custom merch to drag people in to buy your music. RouteNote doesn&#8217;t currently do <a href=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\">digital distribution<\/a> to Insound &#8211; your best bet would be to approach them directly.<\/p>\n<p>***EDIT***<\/p>\n<p>Just to respond to that comment: a totally unfair comparison of someone who happened to be on Insound&#8217;s MP3 download front page when I looked, The Castanets, shows their album &#8216;Texas Rose&#8230;&#8217; as being $1.50 cheaper on Amazon ($8.99) than on Insound ($10.49). Please feel free to refute me with your own research. I think Insound might deserve the extra money for taking an active interest in the bands they promote, and I hope they pass on more $ to their artists, but as a straight comparison, Amazon is cheaper (admittedly this is only one example).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insound.com\/mp3s.php?searchtype=Artist&amp;searchby=castanets&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1464 lazyload\" title=\"insound castanets\" src=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/insound-castanets.gif\" alt=\"insound castanets\" width=\"313\" height=\"491\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/insound-castanets.gif 493w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/insound-castanets-191x300.gif 191w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/insound-castanets-430x673.gif 430w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&amp;field-keywords=castanets&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1463 lazyload\" title=\"amazon castanets\" src=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/castanets-copy.gif\" alt=\"amazon castanets\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/castanets-copy.gif 1308w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/castanets-copy-300x127.gif 300w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/castanets-copy-430x182.gif 430w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insound is a minor player with a lot of heart involved in its operation. They essentially act as a blog and record label, picking up and supporting new acts that are to their taste, promoting them and selling their music through the site. 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