As I was wandering through the bookstore, I gravitated towards the music business section and found a book on starting an independent record label. Since the book was written by an entertainment law attorney, I figured it would be a good starting point for figuring how to go about starting a label on my own. The chapters in the book covered such topics such as contracts, recording royalties, copyrights and promotion. Each chapter also ended with avenues you can take to achieve the goals outlined within each chapters. In the end this book gave a broad description of everything involved in running a recording label. However, I didn't like this book because it felt like a big advertisement for paying an attorney for legal advice. I would recommend other books if you are looking for more in-depth information on each aspect of the business. Specific books on copyrights, publishing, recording, etc. would be more useful. This book could, however, serve as a shopping list for learning more about the recording label business.
-Lawrence Rocha
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