You can buy mass producing self automated cd burning machine which will burn 100 high quality cds off in one go (including artwork), its all totally self automated so you don’t have to sit there like a robot (although you have to put 100 in at a time). You can pick those up for $2,500 to $5,000 usd (which do 300 on its own). I worked all this out once - the CD, case, inner sleaving, printed inlay and printer ink (printer ink was estimated) per unit was 31p.

Im looking at the manf costs for one of my releases here, it was £800 pounds for 575 records. That’s £1.39p per record

Ive thought about this for a while, Its not a bad ide for those who are more into the materialist approach to consuming music, having a physical product, something you can hold, artwork to look at, etc. I certainly do think, with all the new cd decks coming out these days that music will be played digitally. Its more a question of how long. I’m not 100% too sure that cd's are going to be the main format tho, I think you should go for it tho! But if you do, consider doing an online release too because there’s a demand for it, it may be small but like the demand for cdj, it’s growing. Like it or not. You may associate music with a physical format, but there are people who don’t. By doing a Purely CD based release is going to cause you problems as they will end up with filesharers and for those who like to download music, they are going to take that avenue. That’s what they are into, that’s what they do. If you offer an online download your at least, giving a option.

I know people are downloading my old tracks, even I’m surprised by this, sadly the only labels that have gone digital are the ones I released on years ago.