Fwd: [MLA-L] "SELL YOUR MUSIC" NAMED BOOK OF THE MONTH BY HOME RECORDING CENTRAL

[Eliott Kahn <Elkahn...>]

>Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:48:42 +0000
>From: Mark Curran <newmediadigital (at) HOTMAIL(dot)COM>
>Subject: [MLA-L] "SELL YOUR MUSIC" NAMED BOOK OF THE MONTH BY HOME RECORDING
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>"SELL YOUR MUSIC" NAMED BOOK OF THE MONTH BY HOME RECORDING CENTRAL
>
>LOS ANGELES, CA    "Sell Your Music! How To Profitably Sell Your Own
>Recordings Online" has been named Book Of The Month by Home Recording
>Central web magazine. The music business reference title, only in it's
>second week of publication, is recognized as being the first and only mass
>trade paperback yet published on the emerging music retailing model known as
>"Direct Distribution," whereby musicians and composers bypass traditional
>record companies when making and selling their own product.
>
>Dan Ball, president of DB Masters.Net, publishers of Home Recording Central,
>said "We are proud to be first to name this title Book Of The Month, and are
>honored to have Mr. Curran's book as a featured title in our magazine.
>Independent musicians have been indentured servants to record companies for
>far too long. It's time someone provided a solution to the problem, and Mark
>Curran has done just that."
>
>A spokesman for NMD Books of Los Angeles, the book's publisher, said that
>demand for the book has been overwhelming ever since the announcement. "It's
>apparent," said Anthony Madden, Vice President of NMD sales and
>distribution, "there are a lot of musicians that see value in this
>information."
>
>Mark W. Curran, 44, a Los Angeles-based musician and songwriter, says he
>wrote the book after receiving over 1000 rejection slips from record
>companies who refused to even listen to his music. "It wasn't so much the
>rejection as the attitude," Curran says, "they acted like they were kings,
>and I was the lowly knave. Their attitude was, 'who the hell are you? Call
>us back after you've sold a million records.'"
>
>"Then I learned about a 65 year old pianist named Ernesto Cortazar that made
>over $100,000 last year selling his own music. That's what got this ball
>rolling. Now the record companies are running scared. Direct distribution
>could mean their death, and I won't be attending the funeral," Curran said.
>
>"30"
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