It was set up in 1975 to distribute his own work, after he had been released by Capitol Records.
Blei was an early adopter of the Internet as a means to distribute his own work and call attention to other writers.
However, the main purpose of the site is to distribute his work as widely as possible.
Printing is ideally suited to mail artists who distribute their work widely.
Composers may copyright and even distribute their own work, but it might also be distributed by a corporate publisher.
The company is also squabbling with state governments about how it should distribute its work, and jobs, within Germany.
Increasingly, authors turn to new media to help distribute and promote their work.
California Watch has experimented with new ways of distributing its work.
As with Summer's last few albums, different record labels distributed her work in different nations.
Other executives, however, disputed the view that refusing to distribute an artist's work could hurt a record label.