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Category Archives: Self-publishing
The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business
Yesterday, I launched a new blog series titled The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business at DennisTobenski.com. The new series is aimed at composers looking to become more entrepreneurial, and who want to learn more about the business aspects of the … Continue reading
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Doing Business: DRM and Piracy
Every couple of months, the topic of Digital Rights Management (DRM) rears its ugly head when I’m talking to a composer or new music enthusiast about the NewMusicShelf. How does NMS ensure the security of the composer’s scores once someone … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, business, distribution, doing business, DRM, fairness, income, music business, newmusicshelf, piracy, pricing, publishing, retail, rights, sales
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Doing Business: Virtual Shelf Space
Virtual shelf space is a wonderful thing. In a brick-and-mortar music store, of which there are sadly becoming less and less, shelf space is at a premium – a physical store can only hold so much physical sheet music. Of … Continue reading
Pricing: A Practical Approach
In an effort to make pricing my scores easier and less subjective, I’ve been tinkering with a series of formulas to tell me what I should charge, and I think I’ve come up with some good stuff. However, before I … Continue reading
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We Don’t Need No (Business) Education
So I’ve already written about the problems of pricing and why we should (mostly) stop giving away scores for free, but these two topics are part of a larger issue – the lack of education we receive on the business … Continue reading
Free Kittens Scores
Giving away scores. We’ve all done it. You meet a performer, the two of you talk, and they say that they’d love to see a copy of that piece you wrote for their instrument (because it just happens that you … Continue reading
Pricing: The Goldilocks Zone
When I’ve talked to other composers about self-publishing and selling their own works, one of the most consistent stumbling blocks is the issue of pricing. It can be very difficult to evaluate whether a given price is too high or … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, affordability, business, competition, fairness, growth, income, music business, overhead, pricing, publishing, sales, scores, self-publishing
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Publishing renaissance
Over the past few months, I’ve been doing a lot (a LOT) of reading about publishing and self-publishing, and it’s been particularly enlightening. Pretty much all of my reading has been about publishing books. I haven’t bothered reading about music … Continue reading
Why Self-Publish? Part 4: The Distribution Dilemma
To kick off the NewMusicShelf blog, I’ll be posting a four-part discussion on self-publication for composers. The Distribution Dilemma So you’ve decided to self-publish your music. Good for you! Now you’ve got to ask yourself: who’s going to buy your … Continue reading
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Why Self-Publish? Part 3: The Difference between Publication and Distribution
To kick off the NewMusicShelf blog, I’ll be posting a four-part discussion on self-publication for composers. The Difference between Publication and Distribution As I’ve gone about promoting NewMusicShelf to composers, I’ve been getting regular questions and comments about “publishing”, which … Continue reading
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