CD Baby, a Company for the Niche Musician

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61 points·hudibras··11 comments

I highly recommend Derek's book "Anything you want" http://sivers.org/a it's a great read. It's basically about the company he founded, CD Baby. After I read it I sent an email to Derek with a 'thank you' and he just replied the next day... He is great.

Couldn't agree more. Crazy how he had setup his own payment system for his merc in an age before paypal, and the good ethics toward other artists

FYI, his Book, “Anything you want”[1], is free with Kindle Unlimited.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Anything-You-Want-Derek-Sivers-ebook/d...

I like their founder's talks, Derek Sivers[1]. He's also got a good youtube channel[2].

[1]http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_differen... [2]https://www.youtube.com/user/dereksivers

Derek is/was a regular here on HN.

is! - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sivers

Derek has a great blog as well[0], and has really great stories to share, especially about how he got started with CD Baby - which includes teaching himself web development (I believe it was PHP)!

[0] sivers.org

Surprised the NYT article didn't mention http://distrokid.com by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud

I just started writing songs recently and gave DistroKid a try - it's so easy and low cost. One happy customer.

Glad to hear it.

- DistroKid founder

Sivers is a big fan of Distrokid. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519589

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