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Re:The music industry finds another way to shoot itself in t... by epoxyhockey on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @04:10PM (#2468158)
My band released an album mid-2010 through Disc Makers and part of the package included Disc Makers publishing the album through multiple online music vendors.

We set a specific release date, and all of the online music vendors respected that release date, EXCEPT Amazon. Amazon made the music available for sale exactly 13 days prior to our desired release date.

Since we aren't a super-commercialized band, the early release by Amazon was more of an annoyance to us than a marketing strategy blunder. But, I guess it was annoying enough for me to want to comment about it on the Internets.

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Re:The music industry finds another way to shoot itself in t... by MikeTaylor on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @05:07PM (#2468387)
Sorry to hear about your bad Amazon experience. I looked around a bit more, though, and the late UK release of Paul Simon's album is not an Amazon thing, it's UK-wide: HMV and Sainsbury both have the same release date in the UK as Amazon does.
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