How to Have Your Hit Song Published & Updated

by Jay Warner

Book Overview

Warner's book is written in a step-by-step sequence that songwriters can use to prepare and educate themselves in the ways of music publishing - an essential guide that anyone associated with the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1423411994
• ISBN13: 9781423411994
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Simply invaluable: no music or general-interest library should be without it!

Author Jay Warner is a Grammy award-winning music publisher and the revised, updated version of his winning How to Have Your Hit Song Published provides a chart of how to be a successful music songwriter. Charts, graphs and sample contracts are included in the extensive revision of the 1988 best-selling guide, which covers everything from performing rights societies and the latest copyright law to understanding differing types of publishing deals. Also included are specific contacts for companies ranging from music publishers and songwriters to licensing societies and record companies. Simply invaluable: no music or general-interest library should be without it!

New Edition Brings this Bestseller up to Date

At last available in a new, revised, expanded, and updated version of the 1988 best seller. In order to be successful writing music, the composer has to be as much a businessman as he is a writer of music. This book covers the business side of the music industry. This is as nearly complete a book as you could get. It covers such basic things as what is publishing, the current (and ever changing) copyright laws, and the organizations like publishers, record companies, music industry attorneys, songwriter associations and more. One area to read very carefully is the last two chapters on technological changes in the music industry. Digital media means that the music can be copied, sent by e-mail, put on the internet and shared among friends or with the descendents of Napster. While there have been a number of court battles, the war is not over. First the technology itself continues to change. and if nothing else, web sites in Nigeria or China simply don't obey the law. There is no way to tell how this is going to work out.

Great Update to the 1988 Edition

This book (the 2006 version) is a must-have for anyone that is serious about songwriting and is interested in either submitting their material to a music publisher or starting their own music publishing business. I also own the 1988 edition and this is a superb update! This edition includes info on licensing ringtones and a fully revised section on how to run your songs! I highly recommend this book to songwriters!!

Warner's Powerhouse Publishing Book Just Keeps on Selling

In a handsome edition signifying new publisher Hal Leonard, this fine little book has literally snowballed through the music publishing community, gathering speed and legitimacy over two decades. Author Jay Warner has been an enduring and successful presence in the music community. I remember being introduced to the first edition of his book in the seventies, and subsequently (mid-eighties) spoke with him on the phone. Though conditions and trends in music publishing have changed since first publication of this book, it remains an excellent resource and features both a detailed anatomical description of a big publishing company and an extremely useful checklist of procedures which are used by bigger publishers but are easily put into practice by anyone who is serious about making a business out of showing songs around. Jay Warner's writing style is fast and fun, and his distribution deal for this book with the gigantic Hal Leonard organization has given Warner the broad exposure and up-to-date book design he has long deserved. In my first review of the 1978 edition of this book in 1984, I expressed the hope that the book could be updated and have a long shelf life. All these years later the book has received those periodic updates, is still on bookstore shelves, and keeps selling better than ever. Ron Simpson, School of Music, Brigham Young University. Author of MASTERING THE MUSIC BUSINESS.