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Notes in the Margin is now available for download via eMusic and iTunes in addition to CD Baby which has had it up for the better part of a month. Of those I believe CD Baby offers the best quality files (200kbps VBR) and you don't have to be a member of a service or use special library software to download. eMusic offers fairly high quality downloads as well. Last I knew iTunes was still distributing at 128kbps which is too low in my opinion.

Not to bash iTunes, in fact our household uses iTunes simply because it integrates more easily with the hardware. I don't really use any of them personally as I'm still a CD guy. So take my advice with a grain of salt.

[update: A sharp reader emailed to let me know that iTunes now distributes 256kbps AAC files. According to wiki they started doing so back in 2009. So I stand corrected.]

Incidentally I've discovered there is a Russian language site out there offering a free illegal downloads of my new CD, but I've heard tell of people getting infected with viruses from that place so I'd stay clear if I were you.