I highly recommend Derek's book "Anything you want" http://sivers.org/a it's a great read. It's basically about the company he founded, CD Baby. After I read it I sent an email to Derek with a 'thank you' and he just replied the next day... He is great.

FYI, his Book, “Anything you want”[1], is free with Kindle Unlimited.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Anything-You-Want-Derek-Sivers-ebook/d...

Couldn't agree more. Crazy how he had setup his own payment system for his merc in an age before paypal, and the good ethics toward other artists

I like their founder's talks, Derek Sivers[1]. He's also got a good youtube channel[2].

[1]http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_differen... [2]https://www.youtube.com/user/dereksivers

Derek has a great blog as well[0], and has really great stories to share, especially about how he got started with CD Baby - which includes teaching himself web development (I believe it was PHP)!

[0] sivers.org

Derek is/was a regular here on HN.

is! - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sivers

Surprised the NYT article didn't mention http://distrokid.com by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud

Sivers is a big fan of Distrokid. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519589

I just started writing songs recently and gave DistroKid a try - it's so easy and low cost. One happy customer.

Glad to hear it.

- DistroKid founder