Did Amazon recently change the Marketplace shipping rates?

[ejp626]

As much as people are dragging their feet and saying that hate it, there will be a day niche labels stop pressing CDs and go download only.

Naxos apparently has an agreement that allows them to sell mp3s of reissued material (some from EMI even) but they are not able to sell CDs of the material. At least in some cases, the source CDs seem to be OOP (if it was ever out on CD in the first place).

[Jim Alfredson]

I'd rather find a good distributor on that side of the pond to sell physical copies. Anyone can already buy a download from iTunes if they want it. I do not have the capacity, both in terms of the software for individual downloads and viable payment methods outside of Paypal, to sell downloads directly.

[Tim McG]

Here's a thought: Do you know somebody who could purchase those CDs for you here then ship them to you?

He would still have to pay those high USPS overseas rates.

True.

But the good news is the re-issues would come to him in the CD format. He said he wasn't legally allowed to buy them where he is.

Oh sorry, you were responding to my post about HD Tracks? Those are 192khz 24 bit FLAC files, remastered by Alan Yoshida who also did the Audio Wave xrcd24 series. This kind of situation involving downloads is my nightmare for the future.

There are some interesting titles like Out To Lunch, Speak No Evil, and Unity.

Thanks for the correction, Erwbol.

Best of luck on that one...those are some great recordings.

I'd rather find a good distributor on that side of the pond to sell physical copies. Anyone can already buy a download from iTunes if they want it. I do not have the capacity, both in terms of the software for individual downloads and viable payment methods outside of Paypal, to sell downloads directly.

Gotcha.

What puzzles me is why so expensive for the physical copies? I mean, from a consumer's stand point, it just seems like add huge postage fees is just insult to injury. Then, by transference, we pay more.

[Julian Stevens]

I reckon the reason amazon.com has hiked its shipping rates is to deter overseas customers from buying items at lower cost than via their home country amazon site. Many titles listed at amazon.co.uk can be found at much lower cost on amazon.com. Even with shipping at $6.95, as it used to be, it was cheaper to buy via the latter but shipping at $14.95 completely negates this. I've recently bought a couple of items from Japan via eBay and the shipping was only $5.00. Go figure.