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Congratulations on 30 great years! I read Pat Leyland's column on where The Money Goes, and a couple of things jumped out at me. First was Chris Taylor's breakdown that stated that about 10 years ago, the manufacturing cost of an album was a dollar. As I recall, at that time the cost of a disc in a jewel case was about $0.90. So if you also consider the one-time cost of setting up the disc artwork, let's call it a dollar a pop for the first 3,000 CDs. That, however, doesn't include the "paper." you might have gotten a four-page booklet (black and white interior) and the tray card for another $0.20, but the more common 12- or 16-page, full-colour booklet could easily double or even triple that cost.
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Nowadays, Chris Taylor has Last Gang Records and most of its releases feature digipaks. Disc pressing has gotten cheaper, but much more expensive digipaks mean CD manufacturing is as costly as ever. My point is that CDs could cost $1 to make, but very seldom do.
The other point is Pat's cost breakdown on digital albums. ...