What can you learn in reading this book?

1. This book is for anyone who plans to launch a music publishing business. This is recommended for songwriters who seem to be less familiar with the business aspect of songwriting and decide to be launching their own music publishing venture.

2. Learning the music publishing aspect pushes every songwriter one step ahead in the competition. Instead of being lonely sitting in your bedroom writing songs the whole day; music publishing adds some level of career and opportunity growth. This book teaches you how to promote and pitch songs, finds ways to find contacts, and teaches you to manage your catalog, manage finances as well as the providing insider information on various aspects of the business.

Book Strengths:

1. The good thing about this book is that it is being logically arranged from the most basic to advanced topics of music publishing. This will let any beginner grasps key concepts without being drowned by complex information.

2. Actual examples of administration documents –> you find it very useful especially if you have no idea of how the documentation of the music publishing process is being done.

3. Useful references –> the book actually provides tips where to find useful resources, well you may think it is as easy as using Google but its not. The author has a lot of years of experience in music publishing business and knows the best references to find useful information such as finding contacts/ clients.

4. Useful tips to assess your catalog –> the book do illustrate very clearly how you are going to assess the strength of your catalog. This includes finding this and prioritizing these songs in your marketing process. It even describes the characteristics of popular/hit songs as well as the importance of having great lyrics.

Points for improvement:

Some very complicated music publishing matters is not being discussed especially the legal aspects. I understood that this problem is much better consulted with an entertainment lawyer. For example, if you created both the lyrics/melodies and sound recording (which most indie writers/producers does) of a certain song, does filing Form SR in the copyright enough to support both claim (ownership of song and recording)? Of course, you can file one for each form (one using Form PA and other for Form SR) to be sure but that can be costly for some writers.

Some hot/modern topic in music licensing for independent publishers is not being covered such as royalty free licensing, creative commons licensing and free music licensing. Other more confusing arguments is also not included as to whether writers under royalty free licensing agreement can earn performance royalties or whether ASCAP collects royalties for creative common licensed songs.

Other than that, the book flawlessly explained everything in detail; I suggest reading this book over and over again, as it contains a lot of useful information which is always helpful in your daily role as a music publisher. Click here to buy this book at Amazon.