Understanding the music business : a comprehensive view / written and edited by Irwin Steinberg and Harmon Greenblatt.

1. Overview of the music business; 2. The organization of a record company; 3. Record company profit and loss; 4. Defining talent; 5. Recent issues in recording contracts, updating the recording contract; 6. Reaching the audience: marketing; 7. Record distribution; 8. Independent tables, independent distribution; 9. Additional income: special products; 10. The international opportunity; 11. Business affairs; 12. Radio; 13. The billboard charts; 14. Music publishing; 15. The record business and the law; 16. The new technology; 17. The technology manager at a record company.