![]() Distributors have to keep pushing new items to get new orders, and the retailers have to keep placing new orders to keep their inventories up to date, which means shipping back "returns" to make shelf space. In every instance I've known of, the problem is the same - mismanagement of inventory, and "returns." For those who are not familiar with how distributors work, it goes something like this: distributors promote releases with free copies to get record stores to place orders (hyping what will "sell," and paying less attention to what won't sell as much) distributors then ship physical records to stores based on orders received, but the stores are allowed to return unsold items within a certain period (usually 6 months to one year) - these are the "returns" and distributors then pay the record labels according to the number of records sold. ![]() To which I add, "Distributors are generally money driven fuckers of the worst kind anyway, pushing shit music in the same way book distributors try to pass off 'Best Sellers' as literature. In 2004, it was EFA, the most important electronic music distributor in Germany. 55, 2005).ĭuring the past 12 years or so that I've been commercially releasing electronic music I've noticed a trend: every 4 or 5 years a major electronic music distributor goes out of business, taking a ton of small record labels with it. Originally published in "Zehar: Revista de Arteleku-ko Aldizkaria," (Spain: Arteleku, No. ![]() ![]() IPod is Raping the Rapists Who Raped My VillageĪn economic overview of contemporary audio production ![]()
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