Product Description

How to Have Your Hit Song Published is an indispensable, step-by-step guide for songwriters to navigate through the competitive business of music publishing. This long-overdue revision of the original 1988 bestseller contains even more savoir faire advice on striking the right chord with publishers, producers, music industry attorneys and record executives, and is written to motivate as well as to inform.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #969852 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 402 pages

Customer Reviews

Old-Time Advice
While very well-written, this book is in considerable need of updating. The edition I've just recieved was published in 1988.
There are many newer books available as well as many online resources with more up-to-date information.

Simply invaluable: no music or general-interest library should be without it!
Author Jay Warner is a Grammy award-winning music publisher and the revised, updated version of his winning How to Have Your Hit Song Published provides a chart of how to be a successful music songwriter. Charts, graphs and sample contracts are included in the extensive revision of the 1988 best-selling guide, which covers everything from performing rights societies and the latest copyright law to understanding differing types of publishing deals. Also included are specific contacts for companies ranging from music publishers and songwriters to licensing societies and record companies. Simply invaluable: no music or general-interest library should be without it!

New Edition Brings this Bestseller up to Date
At last available in a new, revised, expanded, and updated version of the 1988 best seller. In order to be successful writing music, the composer has to be as much a businessman as he is a writer of music. This book covers the business side of the music industry.

This is as nearly complete a book as you could get. It covers such basic things as what is publishing, the current (and ever changing) copyright laws, and the organizations like publishers, record companies, music industry attorneys, songwriter associations and more.

One area to read very carefully is the last two chapters on technological changes in the music industry. Digital media means that the music can be copied, sent by e-mail, put on the internet and shared among friends or with the descendents of Napster. While there have been a number of court battles, the war is not over. First the technology itself continues to change. and if nothing else, web sites in Nigeria or China simply don't obey the law. There is no way to tell how this is going to work out.