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Why arnt tip-in cd booklets a thing yet?

Just thought I would post this and see if it gains any traction. Seems like it would be a win-win for musicians to sign the cover of a CD booklet before the pages are stapled together. It would stop these ridiculous signed inserts.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on August 22, 2024 at 6:18am

agree - I will no longer pre-order anything with a signed insert. Dont care for them at all

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Permalink Reply by crazyrabbits23 on August 22, 2024 at 11:38am

The short answer, IMO, is that trying to martial an artist signing the unstapled CD covers before they go to the packaging facility is unfeasible from a logistics perspective. You're shipping twice the amount of material to the artist, who somehow has to coordinate all this (with management/the label) before these go off to the shipping facility.

I thought the whole reason why signed inserts were a thing is because it was far faster to get them further in advance and time it so that the signed editions are hitting just before the main release (so as to boost first-week sales).

Even in books, having the author sign the title page directly is far more difficult than just getting them to sign a stack of tip-in pages.