Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero!

Cool: CafePress is going to start offering on-demand printing of CDs and books. Not cool: CafePress base pricing. If they already charge $11 for a coffee mug (more like $15 after shipping and a few dollars of profit for the creator), I can’t imagine what they’ll charge for a full-color CD package. I thought the idea was to sell more items by keeping the pricing reasonable and the inventory low. Competitors to CafePress: none that I can tell.

Still, on-demand is the way to go if you’re indie. This week I got another postcard from Disc Makers, offering 1000 CDs in full-color sleeves for $990. Now, what the heck would I do with one thousand CDs? Probably stack them in my closet with the 500 or so unsold CDs of my last band I’m still lugging around.