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Business Models for Indie Artists & Entrepreneurs

The subtitle of my forthcoming book on the Future of the Music Business (Backbeats 2005): is a A Guide to How Artists and Entrepreneurs Can Succeed by Using New Digital Technologies.

Here's a breakdown of where I am going with this:

Part 1: Rules of digital music (law, business practices)

Part 2: History of a Crises and a Proposed Solution (the labels & the new technologies)

Part 3: How to and why (build a website, provide samples, build mailing list, etc.)

Part 4: Business models focusing on indie artists and entrepreneurs

I am looking for interesting new business models to write about for Part 4. One example is Magnatunes.com, the indie on-line record company. I will also write about CD Baby's new way of connecting artists to the download services including iTunes. But I do not want to write about iTunes, Microsoft, etc. What they are doing on October 1(when I must deliver), may be totally different by April or May when the book is released. So I am looking for non-(big)corporate business models. Does anyone know of any good ones?

 
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Ray Beckerman, Ray Beckerman, P.C.
Steve Gordon, Steve Gordon Law
Rags Gupta, Brightcove
Chris Castle, Christian L. Castle, Attorneys
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