Product Description

"Daylle Deanna Schwartz has conveniently packaged all you need to know to start your own record label in a very reader-friendly new edition. What took me over ten years to learn the hard way has been easily explained in Start & Run Your Own Record Label. If you’re thinking about competing in the often-treacherous world of independent record labels, arm yourself with this book." – RYAN KUPER, Redemption Records

In its first edition, Start and Run Your Own Record Label was an authoritative resource for anyone who ever dreamt of building their own record business from the ground up. Comprehensive, informative, practical, and accessible, the book covered every aspect of setting up, owning, and operating a record label.

Since the publication of that edition, the music industry has witnessed a new era for independent record labels. While not profoundly different, new technology has made it easier and more affordable for practically anyone to record their own music at home and to sell it online and at performances. As a result, increasingly more musicians are finding it easier to achieve their musical goals.

In the Updated and Expanded edition, new chapters are included to address such issues as resources for the business end of running a record label, getting exposure, exploring alternative markets for all genres of music, and maximizing the use of the Internet. In addition, all chapters are rewritten and more interviews with cutting edge experts on today's music market have been added.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #160361 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

About the Author
Daylle Deanna Schwartz the author of four books, including The Real Deal: How to Get Signed to a Record Label, has lectured throughout the country on the music industry and is a consultant to musicians looking to advance their careers and start record labels. She has appeared on Oprah, Donahue, and CNN, and lives in New York City.

Customer Reviews

Maybe As a Primer
Solid book, but it's a bit lacking in the 'actual advice' realm. I find that in almost all 'how to start your own record label' books, no one wants to tell you exactly where to go to make your tasks happen. I would recommend this to those of you who have absolutely no idea where to start; if you have a background in music, at all, I'd pass it and move to Donald Passman.

Cool Book
Very interesting and easy to read book. Shipping time and price were great also. If the book had been in a little better condition, I would have given it 5 stars.

Glibly incomplex
I found this book to be very juvenile; the author does not interpret complex ideas, but makes glib, subjective statements according to how things "feel" to her. While she touts being informed about the labyrinths of business as a great virtue, she wastes most of her time waxing inane in the spirit of elementary school wall decor about how one can "do it!" with the right attitude. Yes, there were some dilapidated facts about how to file for a business license and trademark a name, but nothing beyond what a simple internet search cannot not yield in the grubby paws of the marginally literate.

I would only recommend this book to someone who is indeed in elementary school and has been assigned one of those "what do you wanna be when you grow up?" reports according to a book the teacher makes you select from a little cubby standing in the back of the nauseatingly pureblind-carpeted classroom, labeled "READING IS A VERB" or the like. You take the book home and try to read it, only it does not make much sense to you, so you content yourself with looking at the pictures....except that in this case, there are no pictures.