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The Online Guitar Store - The Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Digital Technologies
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List Price: $22.95
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Manufacturer: Backbeat Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 780.68
EAN: 9780879308445
ISBN: 0879308443
Label: Backbeat Books
Manufacturer: Backbeat Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 270
Publication Date: 2005-04-10
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Studio: Backbeat Books
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New technologies are revolutionizing the music industry. While peer-to-peer file sharing and CD burning are devastating album sales, they are also creating new opportunities to distribute and sell music. This up-to-date guide focuses on these opportunities as well as new business and digital delivery models, and explains how aspiring musicians, established recording artists, independent labels, and entrepreneurs can all take advantage of the new digital technologies. The book includes a comprehensive discussion of new laws and business practices that apply to online music distribution along with a detailed list of vendors and services. The CD features a seminar on the future of the music business, links to reference websites, interviews with key players in the new music business, and links to webpages updating the book so that it will never be out of date!
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Summary: Enlightening the Music World
Comment: A book that is a must for all bands and musical artists. It will set you free from the archaic clutches of the cruel music world.
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Summary: Clean out and Beware of Bogus reviewing...
Comment: Why Can't Amazon start cleaning out all the obviously bogus reviews written by the writers hired-reviewers and friends. Read the only other 2 reviews below that DONT have 5-stars. A good one below from December 31, 2005 is titled: "Another Music Lawyer, Another Book to Milk the Hopeful Masses, December 31, 2005
By Anna Lee".
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Summary: Lots of information
Comment: The digital revolution is here and the music industry is one of the oldest to have adopted this new way of communicating, always refining it's technique music producing and promoting has become one of the biggest buzz on the internet, attracting many people and giving more chances to "small" people. A good well written book with sufficient information but if you want more presented in an even more interesting way than you should check out "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 a book that will open up the potential for online business in the music industry.
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Summary: The book to Get
Comment: I highly recommend this book to gain greater insights in the future of music and how you can intergrate some of this information into your current business or research.it was a great buy along with a manual I purchased from Musicbrains.net entitled the Indie label Kit.
Kawani Belk
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Summary: Many complex issues made simple and clear
Comment: The Future of the Music Business is an interesting book. It's a mix of useful real world information and interviews with people in the industry.
The sections on music clearances are a bit dry, but that stuff is very informative if one needed the info for a project of their own. I really dont think theres a way to spice that kind of stuff up.
The section on ringtones coupled with DRM and the next generation of cell phones with audio and video storage capacity was particularly intersting. Posiing a problem for copyright owners I had not considered before.
There are many such issues raised in this book that are just downright interesting and goes way beyond the cursory coverage many of these new tech issues receive in much of the press. The writing is straightforward and conversational making the legal and technological issues the book deals with surprisingly accessble.
I enjoyed the way the topic of file sharing is dealt with. All of the legal implications are well covered all the while taking a not-so-corporate and common sense review that is refreshing. Often people that download music are chastised in the press as thieves without dealing with the reality of the technology and providing no real answers. Particularly interesting and entertaining in relation to this is the discussion with Wayne Grosso, the president of a peer to peer file sharing service. WR and file sharing services are given a fair shake. It is explained why peer to peer is such a powerful technology that is not about to go away and how it can be a win/win for consumers and copyright holders.
These are some of the stand out sections, but overall, I found here views and information I have not discovered elsewhere. That combined with a very accessable style make this book valuable if you have only have an interest in what's up with new technologies and music or if are involved in your own projects.
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