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If you are serious about music business success, then the following books are absolutely REQUIRED READING! You can't expect to succeed in this business if you don't fully understand how the business works! Very few people are ever really able to make a living in the business. The competition these days is extremely fierce! Raw talent is simply not enough anymore. Major record companies are NOT signing deals with anyone who hasn't already achieved a certain level of success on their own. The following books are all books that I have read, som of them I've read more than once! I highly recommend all of these books. If you haven't read them, then do yourself a favor and order them! It will be the best thing you ever did for your music business career! I have organized this list in order of priority. I most strongly recommend you read at least the first three books listed below. They will give you the foundation for understanding how the music business really works, how to avoid getting ripped off, and how to get out there and release your own record. The rest of the books in the list are all also highly recommended, but some of them are a bit more specialized for areas that you may not be interested in, and some of them overlap with the material presented in the first three books. Some of these are several years old now (as of 2005 as I'm reworking my site), but they are either still very appropriate or they have released newer updated editions. Please, do me a favor and help me to keep these web sites free by using the following links to order the books directly. Just click on the title of the book to go directly to that product page at Amazon.Com, or the direct order site. We get a small percentage for each sale which will hopefully begin to cover the expenses of running all these sites. Thanks! 1. Confessions of a Record Producer - by Moses Avalon Immediately after I finished reading this book, I had to put it at the top of my list! If you buy only one book, then you have to get this one!! It really tells it like it is, and will make you a bit paranoid about the music industry, but with very good reason. This is from an industry insider that is still working in the industry, and so he uses an assumed named so that he won't get into trouble for all the dirt he spills about what the industry is really like. If your life goal has been to get a major label deal, you probably will change your way of thinking after reading this book. He tells you what the other books won't tell you. It's a very easy to read book that is also hard to put down. This book in conjunction with some of the others listed below will really prepare you for a serious career in the music business. This book shows you what to watch out for, while the other books below go into more detail about music business workings and have more "how to" type of information. In other words, this book is not designed to be a "how to" guide, but you must read it to understand all the ways that the various players in the music business can screw you over and keep you from making any money. Get this book and be prepared!! 2.

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