The Guide To Selling Your Music In The iTunes Music Store

The Guide To Selling Your Music In The iTunes Music Store
By Simon Higgs
ISBN 0-9754650-0-7
Copyright © 2004-2007 Simon Higgs. All rights reserved.

Sell your music in the iTunes Music Store!

Cover This is the definitive guide to selling your music in the iTunes Music Store and earning income from music downloads.

Finding out how to do this can be a painful and time-consuming process, but all the information you need is in this guide.

Written primarily for existing (and fledgling) independent record labels, this guide will also be useful for producers, engineers, artists, managers, and attorneys who are handling band and label affairs.

Covering the entire process from initially approaching Apple to encoding and submitting your music to the iTunes Music Store, it illustrates the major requirements for getting your music into the iTunes Music Store and shows you where the pitfalls are in the process.

The guide focuses on the following areas:

The application process
Signing the contract and sending it back to Apple
Encoding your music using iTunes Producer
Uploading your music to the iTunes Music Store
Marketing opportunities for your music
Bonus section explaining ISRC Codes

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Disclaimer: Please note that this book was originally published in 2004 and this version was last updated in 2007. Consequently, most of the content is now out of date as Apple's submission process is now available online via Apple's web site. Bands and smaller labels may find it easier to distribute their music through one of the many aggregators that have sprung up since this book was published. It is highly unlikely that this book will be further updated, and it is no longer available in hard copy.

I recommend The Guide to Selling Your Music in the iTunes Music Store ... a well-written, friendly book.

- Eliot Van Buskirk, Senior editor, CNET Reviews

The book is short, well written, and an easy read, yet it covers a surprising amount of information. If you’re looking to place your music in the iTunes Music Store, this is a good place to start.

- EQ Magazine, October 2004 [Review]

A short, well-written and sometimes humorous walk through of the iTunes Music Store submission process.

- MusicTech Magazine, May 2005 [Review]

For any band, the road to iTunes is a rocky one without some level of assistance. If you're a low-budget, local band, I'd recommend that you or your label buy Higgs's guide and submit songs on your own since wending your way through Apple's requisite maze of forms without some form of guidance would be tough.

- Eliot Van Buskirk, Senior editor, CNET Reviews