Reviews

“I’ve found this book to be very helpful in many ways to the budding label owner. It goes into great detail and provides many useful tips on getting started in the music industry. From starting the idea, to doing music videos, it touches each aspect of the climb up the ladder. It includes links and form numbers to help you get started in setting up the business. I would consider this book a must for anybody getting started in the industry.”
Tricia Holtz, The Golden Notebook (Bookstore).

“I cannot think of anything you would need to start out successfully that this book does not cover. It gets into stuff like copyrights, music publishing and royalties, recording and production, design and manufacturing, distribution and radio and how to pay people like musicians and songwriters and how you get paid yourself. This is my favorite kind of book: packed with mountains of relevant content and detail but condensed so you do not have to devote the next 3-years to reading it.”
James Linderman, Muses Muse Online Songwriter’s Newsletter.

“In The Right Direction: A Beginner’s Guide To Starting A Record Label by musician, songwriter and music arranger Samuel D. Gilleylen is a user-friendly, step-by step, instructional guide to navigating the challenging and often confusing world of publishing and/or producing music for profit. Individual chapters address the basics of copyrights and royalties, publicity, using the internet for cost-effective promotion, and much, much more. A superb primer and introduction for up and coming songwriters. In The Right Direction is a complete, accessible reference that can make all the difference between success and failure for aspiring entrepreneurs seeking to launch their own labels.”
Jim Cox, Midwest Book Review.

From The Musicians Web Center for music resource and industry information on the net: “Gilleylen provides a recommended reading list, additional information sources, a sample consignment form and checklists. If you are keen on the indie approach, this book should give you an idea of what is required to set up your own label. The knowledge you will gain will also be of assistance of those of you who try to get a label deal as this book allows you to take a peek over the parapet. You’ll have some idea as to how things work.”
Geoff Nicholson, www.HitSquad.com.