Alternate sources of revenue

Graham writes in:

I was wondering, you know, I bought a fair few CD's now as a result of listening to your station. Is there no way you can get any income through that? Like an agreement with a web CD store?

We currently do this with Amazon, so if you follow our links to Amazon, we get a 5% of the sale commission, but honestly, we don't make that much money on it... usually only about $600 a month because people tend to buy used CDs there.

We're working on partnering with CDBaby as well, and we'll get $1 for each CD sold through them. We experimented with iTunes in the past, but at 5 cents per track sold, it wasn't adding up to much at all. Plus iTunes only gives you credit for the direct link tracks, where as Amazon also gives us credit for anything else bought during that "shopping session".. so if the buyer buys more CDs by the same artists, we get credit for that.