Digital Distributor Launches Ringtone Store

According to Digital Music News, "…independent digital distributor Digital Rights Agency announced a dedicated ringtone store called Bliptones, available at bliptones.com. That will offer a nice value-add for clients, which include Death Cab for Cutie, Sleater-Kinney, and At The Drive In. Master ringtones purchased through the Bliptones site will initially be downloadable by customers of AT&T, Bell Canada, Cellular One, Cingular, FIDO, Rogers AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile…Last month, digital content distributor IRIS Distribution launched a service that allows artists to layer ringtone sales into their existing websites. That solution, along with the Bliptones store, were launched with the help of Xingtone, an LA-based firm that also markets software that creates ringtones from CD tracks.

Meanwhile, longtime indie distributor The Orchard is currently selling ringtones through over 150 different mobile outlets, Sprint, Dwango and Zingy.