.. and as for the albums actually making into the "inventory" of the services. I don't think there's anyway of guaranteeing that delivering an album to a particular service means that service will put it into its inventory or keep it in its inventory. I suspect that some of the services take some and not others - and I suspect some services remove albums that do not generate "hits" or sales. You and I and CDBaby have no control over that.

That's part of what I mean when I see it's a loose mechanism we have for distribution. I think the only way around that is for each artist to have an agreement with each service.