Product Description

This hands-on guide is essential for any musician who wants to build a fan base and increase profits through the Internet. Peter Spellman, Director of the Career Development Center at Berklee College of Music, guides the self-managed musician through successful strategies to promote music online, reach new audiences, and maximize income. Readers will learn how to: create a professional website; share music downloads; sell and license music online; broadcast on Internet radio; webcast live concerts; create streaming audio; get an online record deal; and much more. Includes an invaluable listing of more than 300 music-related websites!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #513009 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent
The World Wide Web is now a major portal for the music industry to "infect" the masses, and the producers are all for this expansion into the modern world. The internet has now become a launch pad for many small record labels that find it easier to survive a virtual environment than a real one. Things that novices don't know can kill the company from the start , things that are explained in this book using an easy structure and light information. Unfortunately, the book is just light, "The New Music Industry: How to Use the Power of the Internet to Multiply Your Industry Exposure, Fan Base and Income Potential Online!" by Ty Cohen is the complete book that give you all the insights into successful online business

Badly outmoded
I had purchased this book based on the overall set of good reviews here but instantly smelled trouble from the first sentence on page 1, which reads, "The Internet (or 'Net' for short...") I'm surprised the author didn't go on to say how the 'Net' is also considered the cat's pajamas & bee's knees. 3/4ths of the helpful music industry links cited in the pages lead to dead end error pages. Some useful advice can be found but overall, the information about cultivating an online presence as a musician can also be culled from looking at your favorite artists' pages for ideas.

Full of Good Advice That's Somewhat Out of Date
This book was a quick, easy read done in one afternoon. The advice itself was not bad at all in a general, where-do-I-start sense, but judging by the pricing author Spellman used for domain names and hosting, this book is badly out of date.

When I went to its "sister website" at musiciansinternet.com, nothing showed up. A whois search revealed a registrant located in Malaga, Spain, so I don't know what's really going on here. Perhaps Berklee Press would be wise to keep its sites really up to date to expand on the book as promised within its pages.

All in all though, this book does contain valuable suggestions, including some rather obvious ones as well as the more obscure. And it is written and organized in a very easy to read manner with no circuitous technical jargon or other stuff to weigh things down.

Bottom line: good info, quick read, but the book is out of date and its companion website nowhere to be found.