The online music store/distributor CD Baby now gives artists the option of selling their albums in the unprotected MP3 format, as part of its latest redesign. Digital albums are delivered in a downloadable zip file that contains the songs, album cover, and liner notes, for the same price as the CD version.
The site has paid over $53 million to the nearly 200,000 artists who currently sell their music through the site, which distributes CDs from its own warehouse and digital music through iTunes, Rhapsody, and other services. It'll be interesting to see whether buyers learn to prefer the un-DRMed MP3 versions at CDBaby -- and whether its digital music store will affect its relationship with those services, which could start to view the site as a competitor.
(via digital audio insider)
