Independent music distributor CD Baby is celebrating having reached the milestone of $250 million paid out to artists since its 1998 launch, 50 million of which was in 2012 alone. Read More

Streaming music service Rdio has signed licenses with CD Baby and TuneCore, both of which are large aggregators of independent music, swelling its catalog to over 18 million songs. . Read More

Digital film distribution startup MoPix today announced its MoPix platform, which is designed to enable independent filmmakers to create, distribute and sell their movies in a DVD-style package. Read More

Non-profit performance rights organization SoundExchange announced today that distributed nearly $88 million to more than 18,300 payees during the third quarter of 2011, the largest quarterly distributions since its 2000 founding. For perspective, total distributions made by SoundExchange in 2010 were $249.2 million, up from $155.5 million the previous year. Read More

CD Baby formally went live with its new MusicStore for Facebook, a new option for the independent musicians and labels who distribute downloads and CDs through the company, after soft launching last week. Read More

Portland, Ore. - CD Baby, a provider of CD and digital music distributions services for independent artists, has expanded its service with the launch of BookBaby, which offers to help authors self-publish and distribute their titles. For $149, the service will offer authors 100% of net sales revenue generated via sales of their titles through CD Baby on Amazon, iTunes, Barnes & Noble, Sony and eventually Google.

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Portland, Ore. – CD Baby, a 12-year-old online retailer of CDs and digital downloads, announced on Wednesday that it has surpassed $150 million in payments of independent artists, and expects to pay out nearly $40 million this year. The company said it added 18,000 new titles during the second quarter, up almost 70% from a year ago.

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