# to anyone who has self-published a music CD

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-anyone-who-has-self-published-a-music-cd/560739>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 15, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-anyone-who-has-self-published-a-music-cd/560739 "2010-11-15T13:49:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-anyone-who-has-self-published-a-music-cd/560739/1 "2010-11-15T13:49:47Z")

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Where are the best sites for selling?  
My chorus just recorded our first CD, and I was thinking that selling on line would be a good thing. So, I’d like input from anyone who has done that sort of thing. kthxbai

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-anyone-who-has-self-published-a-music-cd/560739/2 "2010-11-15T16:11:06Z")

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I have some friends who did OK with CD Baby.

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**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-anyone-who-has-self-published-a-music-cd/560739/3 "2010-11-15T17:27:31Z")

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Yeah, CD Baby is the best one I’ve ever used. You send them your CDs, which they then store at their warehouse. Then they ship it all wrapped up when a customer buys it online. They also provide a credit card machine you can use at your live shows… then you send them the receipts and they do all the charging (obviously this is risky if the CC is declined).

The only drawback is that they take $4 for every CD sold. To me that sounds a little excessive, but YMMV. But overall I think they’re the most well-regarded independent CD retailer.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-anyone-who-has-self-published-a-music-cd/560739/4 "2010-11-15T17:36:27Z")

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Since the OP is looking for advice, this is better suited to IMHO than GQ.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator

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**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-anyone-who-has-self-published-a-music-cd/560739/5 "2010-11-15T18:46:19Z")

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CDBaby is fair, from what I heard. I went through [Tunecore](http://www.tunecore.com/), a service that gets you out there on iTunes, Amazon, etc. For physical CDs we went with [Dischord](http://www.dischord.com/), but you probably wouldn’t want to do that, as they’re sort of, um, specialized.