Report: EMI Stops Selling CDs to Some Indie Record Stores

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 30, 2009 - 11:53am.

London - Major record label EMI has begun informing some independent record stores that it will no longer sell them physical product, and that if they wish to carry EMI CDs, they will need to purchase them from stores like Walmart or Best Buy and resell them, according to a post on ex-Grosker head Wayne Rosso's blog. "Several [independent record stores] I have spoken with are so upset that they vow never to buy any EMI catalog again -- or any new artist releases either," Rosso wrote. "Only the certifiable hit product that they know will sell. They will no longer take chances on new EMI artists."

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