Magnatune: a record label for a new world (encore)

Jul 13.09 | Lifestyle   

While I’m on summertime travel please enjoy this re-post from the Rodeworks archive.  Magnatune continues to be a significant presence in online music distribution, and proof that open access, free delivery and pay-what-you-will can be a successful business model.

Magnatune: A record label for the new world

Apr 11.05 

Magnatune bills itself as “the open music record label.” Here is the deal:

• All of their music is available for listening. Not 30 second snippets, but full albums worth.
• You select how much you want to pay for an album from $5 on up (suggested price is $8.)
• The artists gets half of that — no muss, no fuss

They have 356 complete albums in genres from classical to electronica. Take a listen. Finally a publishing model that makes sense for most music artists!
Magnatune: MP3 music and music licensing (royalty free music and license music).
IT conversations has a great interview with the founder of magnatune, which is well worth a listen.

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Author: Randy

In my day job I serve as Information Technology Director for the Yale School of Drama. Otherwise I garden, play guitar, build stuff out of wood, take photos, play around with technology and have been blogging since 2003.

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