Start and Run Your Own Record Label Start and Run Your Own Record Label
Start and Run Your Own Record Label Start and Run Your Own Record Label
“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.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars 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.
4 Stars 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.
2 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.
5 Stars The story of my brother’s life
I actually purchased this book for my brother who has an underground record label, going on about 5 years (?). He said it’s absolutely amazing and that he can relate to most of the things that are covered. It has a lot of great suggestions and views on running a pre-existing record label and even starting one from scratch. He has learned a lot of legal issues too that he’s taken care of and this is the only book I ever recall seeing him open! And he read it in 2 days!
4 Stars Getting The Basics Down
I found this book to be an excellent resource just coming into the music business. It teaches a lot of the basic concepts in starting and running a record label. The book and specifically, the music publishing deals and distribution information, helped me to get a better understanding of how the business works. I would have liked to see a little more detailed information on signing an artist, but that maybe a little too much for a basic book. Good shelf keeper
