Music:

This Business of Global Music Marketing
Global Strategies for Maximizing Your Music's Popularity and Profits
Written by Tad Lathrop

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $10.99

Think BIG—capture the global music market.

Worldwide tours, internet downloads, international album distribution–the global market for music is expanding with lightning speed, and that means big opportunities for everyone in the music business. The main obstacle? Lack of knowledge. The world market is packed with opportunity, but it's also full of cultural... Read more >

This Business of Artist Management

Written by Xavier M. Frascogna, Jr. and H. Lee Hetherington

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2011
Price: $12.99

This authoritative reference on artist management in the music industry is the standard for all phases of managing a musician's career from both the artist's and manager's point of view. This substantially updated edition covers the major changes that have transformed the business world and music industry over the past six... Read more >

Hit Men
Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
Written by Fredric Dannen

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $12.99

Hit Men is the shocking, highly controversial expose of the venality, greed, and corruption of many of the assorted kingpins and hustlers who rule over the music industry. "A sobering, blunt, and unusually well-observed depiction of the sometimes sordid inner workings of the music business."--Billboard. 4 pages of photographs. Read more >

The Music Business
Career Opportunities and Self-Defense
Written by Dick Weissman

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 20, 2011
Price: $12.99

The Must-Have Guide for Breaking
into the Music Business

Completely revised and updated for the twenty-first century, The Music Business provides essential career advice and information on how to get started and advance in all areas of the music industry—from an author who’s had careers in music as an artist and professor... Read more >

Def Jam, Inc.
Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World's Most Inf
Written by Stacy Gueraseva
Introduction by Brett Ratner

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 30, 2011
Price: $12.99

In the early ‘80s, the music industry wrote off hip-hop as a passing fad. Few could or would have predicted that the improvised raps and raw beats busting out of New York City’s urban underclass would one day become a multimillion-dollar business and one of music’s most lucrative genres.

Among those few... Read more >

This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring
A Practical Guide to Creating, Selling, Organizing, and Staging Concerts
Written by Ray D. Waddell, Rich Barnet and Jake Berry

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2010
Price: $14.99

The only book that looks at the business of concert promotion. Concerts are part art, part party—and a big part business. This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring is the first to focus on that all-important business aspect, from creating a show, to selling a show, to organizing the show, to... Read more >

Start and Run Your Own Record Label, Third Edition

Written by Daylle Deanna Schwartz

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2010
Price: $18.99

For everyone interested in starting a record label–to market new talent or to release and promote their own music–there has never been a better time to do it!

Music can be released, distributed, and promoted for a fraction of traditional costs. Veteran author and music-business consultant Daylle Deanna Schwartz (who started... Read more >

What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business, Revised and Updated Editio
The Myths, the Secrets, the Lies (And a Few Truths)
Written by Peter M. Thall

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2010
Price: $19.99

Bad news: The music business is packed with hidden agendas. Good news: There’s one indispensable guide that helps songwriters, musicians, executives, lawyers, and managers understand the music business and travel its shark-infested waters safely and confidently. What They’ll Never Tell You About the Music Business sold more than 20,000 copies in... Read more >

How to Be a Record Producer in the Digital Era

Written by Megan Perry
Foreword by Ron Fair

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2010
Price: $15.99

The insider’s guide to becoming an insider. Want to become a record producer? Get this book. It’s the authoritative, up-to-the-minute guide to getting what it takes to become a success in today’s exciting, hyper-competitive music business. For musicians interested in hands-on record production, for aspiring pros, for anyone with an interest... Read more >

The Musician's Guide to Licensing Music
How to Get Your Music into Film, TV, Advertising, Digital Media & Beyond
Written by Darren Wilsey and Daylle Deanna Schwartz

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $19.99

Plug your music career into the lucrative new income streams of the digital marketplace
 
Record deals are so twentieth century. Today, music licensing is the fastest route to widespread exposure and a steady income. Creators of films, television shows, commercials, video games, ringtones, podcasts and other digital-age media hunger for music perfectly... Read more >

What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business
The Myths, the Secrets, the Lies (& a Few Truths)
Written by Peter M. Thall

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $19.99

“For someone on the way up, this book is a must; for everyone else, it’s a bible.”—Danny Strick, co-President, SonyATV Music Publishing, Inc.
 
This completely revised and expanded edition of What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business is a must-have reference not only for aspiring songwriters, record producers, and... Read more >

Motown
Music, Money, Sex, and Power
Written by Gerald Posner

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $13.99

In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a poor Detroit neighborhood served as his headquarters... Read more >

Start and Run Your Own Record Label, Third Edition

Written by Daylle Deanna Schwartz

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $21.95

For everyone interested in starting a record label–to market new talent or to release and promote their own music–there has never been a better time to do it!

Music can be released, distributed, and promoted for a fraction of traditional costs. Veteran author and music-business consultant Daylle Deanna Schwartz (who started... Read more >

Myspace Music Profit Monster
Easy Online Marketing Strategies to Get More Fans Fast
Written by Nicky Kalliongis

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $24.00

From one of the music industry’s top executives comes the ultimate guide to making the most of the internet to promote yourself and your music. Nicky Kalliongis is a veteran music industry professional who’s worked with the likes of the legendary Clive Davis and L.A. Reid, and with artists as diverse... Read more >

This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring
"A Practical Guide to Creating, Selling, Organizing, and Staging Concerts"
Written by Ray D. Waddell, Rich Barnet and Jake Berry

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $24.95

The only book that looks at the business of concert promotion. Concerts are part art, part party—and a big part business. This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring is the first to focus on that all-important business aspect, from creating a show, to selling a show, to organizing the show, to... Read more >

This Business of Music, 10th Edition

Written by M. William Krasilovsky and Sidney Shemel
Contribution by John M. Gross and Jonathan Feinstein

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $29.95

The bible of the music industry! Now in its tenth edition, This Business of Music has been revised and completely updated to reflect the latest changes in the ever-evolving music business. Every chapter has been revised. An entirely new chapter has been added, asking and answering the question “Are there borders... Read more >

Motown
Music, Money, Sex, and Power
Written by Gerald Posner

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $15.95

In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a poor Detroit neighborhood served as his headquarters... Read more >

This Business of Artist Management

Written by Xavier M. Frascogna, Jr. and H. Lee Hetherington

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2004
Price: $24.95

This authoritative reference on artist management in the music industry is the standard for all phases of managing a musician's career from both the artist's and manager's point of view. This substantially updated edition covers the major changes that have transformed the business world and music industry over the past six... Read more >

This Business of Music Marketing and Promotion
A Practical Guide to Creating a Completely Intergrated Marketing and E-Marketing Campaign
Written by Tad Lathrop

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $24.95

The maxim in the music industry has always been “You can’t make it on talent alone,” and with This Business of Music Marketing & Promotion, you don’t have to.

In language that is simple and direct, author Tad Lathrop details promotional skills, publicity plans, royalty guidelines, and more, all supported by real-life... Read more >

The Music Business
Career Opportunities and Self-Defense
Written by Dick Weissman

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2003
Price: $17.00

The Must-Have Guide for Breaking
into the Music Business

Completely revised and updated for the twenty-first century, The Music Business provides essential career advice and information on how to get started and advance in all areas of the music industry—from an author who’s had careers in music as an artist and professor... Read more >