How Online Distribution Works (and Doesn’t Work) Today

Don VanCleave
Don Van Cleave is president of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores, a group of sixty prominent independent record stores located across the United States that have banded together to strengthen their market share at retail. Van Cleave also runs Junketboy, a company that specializes in securing exclusive distribution deals for independent artists.

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Don Van Cleave, longtime music retailer and founder of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores, explains how digital music distribution works today. He also discusses his plans to open digital music stores for each of the major members of CIMS, and some of the barriers he is facing from labels and the rest of the industry in making this a reality.

Shoot Date: November 2007