CAMSCO Music * 28 Powell Street, Greenwich, CT 06831 * USA
800/548-FOLK (3655)                                                                         dick@camsco.com
                                
                


New CD? Or One That's Gone Out Of Print?


There are a couple of ways to handle this. You could lay out a couple of thousand bucks and have it produced privately—if you have room to store all the ones you won't sell in the immediate future. Or you could buy a lot of equipment, and spend a fair amount of time learning to do your own publication.
Or you could try to get one of the established labels, like Rounder or Green Linnet to produce it for you, if they're willing to do it. This approach has the advantage of having a distribution network in place, but all you'll get from this distribution is a standard royalty, which come to about 75 cents per CD. And they'll sell you back copies for you to sell at about $7 per copy.
Let's face it. The value of a CD, to a performer, has little to do with royalties (unless you're Britney Spears or Bob Dylan.) That CD is something you'll sell yourself, and it represents an opportunity to double (roughly) the fee you get at a gig.
CAMSCO Music is offering a new service, based on the Japanese Kanban, or just-in-time inventory approach. If you provide a usable master and copyable artwork, I'll make you a professional duplication (disk label printed directly on disk, full color jewel case cover artwork, tray card and booklet (if any) for 5 bucks a copy in quantities of one and up. Considering that the usual retail price is $15, this represents a handsome profit along with no risk. You retain all rights; there's no commitment to future orders and the quality is guaranteed. CAMSCO would like to reserve the right to fill orders for your CDs if we get any—we'd pay you $5 for each one we sell.
CAMSCO is currently serving Skip Gorman (2 titles), Margaret MacArthur (1 title) and is doing repackaging for Juneberry Records (7 titles) and Folktrax (6 titles.) We're discussing jobs with several other reasonably well-known folk artists.
If this sounds interesting, give me a ring at 800/548-FOLK (3655) from the US or Canada, or E-Mail me at dick@camsco.com