Re: Do we need Publishers?

[Joshua Horowitz <horowitz...>]

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I think one of the real examples of great homemade publications is Sy
Kushner's

"The Klezmer Fake Book Volumes I and II"

The production qualities are very good (complete with CD attached in the
back) and the transcriptions are just excellent. I wonder if Sy has been
reward sufficiently for his initiative. Josh

> At 09:35 AM 6/7/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>In this day and age, with computers, kinkos, cd burners. Do we really need to
>>waste time with rejections and publishers? If Josh puts his music on Finale,
>>Copied and bound it nice, sold it on his web site. He'd get to keep most of
>>the $20-30 he could sell it for. instead of $.50-1.00 he will get if a
>>publisher puts it out. We get new and different music, the author gets
>>compensated. We all would benefit.
>
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