This guest post by Tony van Veen originally appeared on the Disc Makers Blog
I want to talk about what price you can sell a CD or vinyl record for these days and whether you can actually make money selling physical media. Artists ask me about this a lot, particularly about vinyl, since the investment in manufacturing a vinyl record is more substantial.
Manufacturing costs
In the quantities most commonly ordered by independent artists, manufacturing CDs costs between $1 to maybe $2.50 apiece. Vinyl, because…
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