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updated: July 26, 2004
The following
is a summary of our non-exclusive License Agreement:
Non-exclusive
agreement: affords out artists the prestige of
performing on our label: Eroica
is aggressively growing its catalog, and rapidly becoming one
of world's leading distributors of independent classical music,
offering mainstream retail and digital distribution channels to
over 200 artists and 400 titles. These same services are available
to genre other than classical through our affiliate label, Turn
On Records, as follows:
World
Wide Digital Distribution:
Eroica supplies its entire catalog to the new major legitimate
digital music services (DMS): eMusic, iTunes, MusicNet, Pressplay,
and many others - including the leading European DMS providers.
We fulfill CD orders, register your release with Soundscan, and
encode your music for delivery to the various digital music services
and retail outlets.
Internet
Music Retail Sites:
Eroica supplies its entire catalog to all major internet retail
stores including: Amazon, Tower, CDNow, and others in
11 countries, including the UK, Japan, France, Germany, and others.
Distribution:
in 144 countries, through Alliance One Stop Group, the
world’s largest one stop service., and H&B Recordings
Direct, the world’s largest direct mail order house.
Exposure:
Eroica uses its unique partnerships to give its artists mass exposure
via listings in All Music Guide, Muze, Inc., DCN, Loudeye
Technologies, and other Internet Listing Services who supply
cover art, track listings, sound samples, artists photos and bios,
and liner notes to all internet data bases for major internet
sites.
Fulfillment:
Eroica wants its artists to grow in every way possible.
Since the
distribution agreement is non-exclusive, you are free to continue
placing your CDs with any other record company or distributor
of your choice.
The retail price for all Eroica CDs is $17.95. Your royalty income
is $8.10.
The wholesale price for all Eroica CDs is $8.10. Your royalty
income is $4.05.
The retail price for all Eroica double CDs is $28.95. Your royalty
income is $13.06
You will receive 50% of all DMS royalties.
In return for these services, and the time we will spend marketing
your CDs during the next 5 years, ECR requires the signing of
our non-exclusive License Agreement, the consignment of 100 of
each title of your CDs to our inventory, and the payment of a
retainer fee upon your signing of the agreement.
We urge you
to give our offer the most careful consideration. You will be
joining an extensive catalog of internationally known artists.
We point with particular pride to our affiliation with Phoenix
CDs, Crystal CDs, Musically
Speaking CDs, and Palatine CDs,
featuring orchestral performances of the most familiar classical
music composers. under the direction of Maestro Gerard Schwarz,
Conductor of the Seattle Symphony. Maestro Schwarz also does a
commentary on the composition(s) on a 2nd CD in the 2-CD set.
Eroica is creating international attention with its new 7-CD release
of the greatest Bartok Solo Piano Works
by Hungarian-American pianist June de
Toth, the first woman to record a cycle of Bartok’s
piano works, including the complete Mikrokosmos. This 7-CD set
has been submitted for a Grammy Award. All of this activity will
result in attracting thousands of new visitors to the Eroica internet
site.
