So you think you can find every CD simply by visiting your favorite retailer's web site? Well, not necessarily. For obvious reasons, music vendors have no intention to list titles they cannot supply. What for? They want to sell you their selection, not provide you with a worldwide encyclopedia. And since not even the biggest web site offers every title in existence, they are by definition limited. Some less, some more.

"Hey, that's what the Internet is here for! You can find anything!" Yes you can, but the catch is: It can take hours. Try to do this often and soon you find out it is actually more fun listening to the CDs you already own than hopping from site to site trying to find some piece of information.

If a comprehensive, global CD database is what you need, this is the one to get!

At some point, you start thinking: "There must be a better way!" There is: It's called CD International. Back in 1982 when the first CD saw the light of the world, we got the great idea to start compiling a database of every title released on these then-exotic shiny little discs. By doing so, we have become (somewhat unwittingly) the grand-daddy of global audio CD databases. In 1987 it became a regular business - and as they say, the rest is history.

In 1987 we published the first CD World Reference Guide which became an overnight success on five continents. This large book has presently over 1,100 pages and lists audio CDs available in England, Germany, Japan and the USA. It is published annually, with a short hiatus between 1998 and the present. This was caused by our emphasis on the CDI on CD-ROM, but we plan to bring the Guide back as soon as possible: The next issue is scheduled for late Fall 2003. You can still buy the currently available issue of the Guide at a discount, and naturally you can always get the latest-greatest CD-ROM.

What's next? Well, after we tell you what CDs are available, the logical questions is where to get them. Since 1993, we have published our CD World Industry Contact Guide listing thousands of record labels, retailers, wholesalers, exporters, importers, mail orders and other sources from all over the world. This valuable resource is now being adapted for a CD-ROM release scheduled to appear shortly.

Record labels:
The sooner we list your CDs, the sooner the public can buy them.

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