I'm back

It has been a long time since the ABC closed their audio dept. and unceremoniously put an end to the distribution of my 65min 'father and son stories' CD. Not to be too harsh, the head of Audio at the time did revert the copyright to me as a farewell gesture. This was later questioned by the ABC legal dept but an arrangement was agreed to and a fee of $250 charged. I also agreed to grant ABC nonexclusive rights to distribute digitally should they decide to do so. They will have to hurry to catch iTunes but I wish them good luck.

Last week I was excited to parcel up the copies I've had duplicated locally, two by two in bubble wrap, as instructed by the national buyer and send them to ABC head office in Ultimo Sydney. Each also wrapped in a brochure and an invoice addressed to each of the ABC Shops around Australia. We will share 50/50 the $2550 RRP total this order makes.

Out of my half I will pay per disc the GST of $1.13 , the picture disc duplication including crystal cases $1.28 Also .67cents to print the CD covers .26cents postage and .06cents of bubble wrap. I'll make $9.11 each disc. Perviously I made $2.50 per disc as a royalty but did none of this messing around. The ABC did everything.

For now it has been fun doing it all but to be sensible I should hand it over to a volume distributor.

The discs look beautiful and sound better that ever. I wonder what other artist have done since ABC Audio closed.