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Here you can read my reviews of books of interest to internet musicians and buy them through Amazon in the UK and the US. There are many more books available using the search boxes at the foot of the page.
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- The Independent Musician's Contact Bible
- The Self-Promoting Musician : Strategies for Independent Music Success
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The Independent Musician's Contact Bible
By David Wimble
The internet makes communication with record companies cheaper, but sometimes a lot of time is wasted finding the right website. Finding a good 'guru' site with all the links you need is a help, but can still be slow by the time the site has plastered adverts all over it. David Wimble's book, The Indie Contact Bible, aims to solve this problem by providing a print directory of websites in the music industry. Some of the websites are contact points for real-world radio stations and companies, but many are web-only ventures and fanzines. The book includes sites that will review your music, radio stations that might play it, promotion services, music distribution websites and free band promotion sites. Each section is subdivided by genre and country, making it easy to find what you're looking for. It's rather dry reading, most of the book being just site titles and addresses, but it does include over 3000 websites making it extremely useful for anyone serious about promoting their music online.
The Self-Promoting Musician : Strategies for Independent Music Success (Music Business)
By Peter Spellman
This book is subtitled 'strategies for independent music success' and promotes a broad understanding of what that success might mean. You can keep control of your career and work in the music business, but it might mean sacrificing dreams of heavy rotation on MTV. This book gives equal weight to diverse markets such as soundtracks, computer game music, business functions, weddings and local gigs. The book includes advice for performers on how to promote the band, researching possible markets, management and setting up a record label. Statistics pepper the book that suggest it's getting easier for musicians to promote themselves, and extensive website listings give follow-up opportunities for further information. Being written for a US-only audience, the book sometimes slips into irrelevance for UK readers (contact details for US trade bodies, for example), but the ideas can usually still be applied over here with a bit more research. This book is a good starting point for competent musicians who want to use their talent at work and need to gather ideas on how to effectively promote themselves.
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