Independent Publishers
Licensequote.com, Music Licensing Solutions for Independent Artists, Record Labels and Publishers
Author: Eric de Fontenay
LicenseQuote ( http://www.licensequote.com ) provides an easy to manage online solution that helps independent artists, labels, producers and music publishers to license their own songs, recordings and related assets directly from their own web sites.
“Private beta testing has been completed and we’ve been getting excellent feedback from a sampling of independent artists and labels” said Doron Erblich, co-founder and CTO of LicenseQuote.
The basic LicenseQuote (aka LQ) Music Licensing Calculator embed widget is free to all music artists, labels and publishers who have authority to license their various copyrighted music materials. LicenseQuote does not charge any sales commission percentage fee to the sellers and is also completely free to all music licensing buyers.
“Music publishers can use our music licensing calculator to sell, negotiate and manage their music licensing deals directly from their own web pages”, said Michael Borges, co-founder and CEO of LicenseQuote.
The LicenseQuote Free calculator features include: 17 standard licensing types, standard pricing profile, description and usage details shown for each selected license type, instant price calculations, “captcha” protected email sending, print out feature and option for custom bid price negotiation inquiry.
LicenseQuote – Music Licensing Solutions gives independent artists and music publishers unlimited opportunities to license their copyrighted materials to the music, advertising and broadcast media industries for commercial usage including: TV, cable, radio, advertising, film, video, theater, corporate, websites, music on hold, plus many more innovative and custom-requested applications.
The LicenseQuote service gives media industry buyers direct access to artists, labels and publishers who are offering LQ enabled music licensing sales via the internet directly from their own websites, blogs, emails or other pages.
The mission of LicenseQuote is to pioneer the world’s most powerful and cost effective self-managed music licensing solution for professional publishers (licensors) to enhance their opportunities for doing business directly with their existing or new customers including various media industry buyers.
The LQ business philosophy is focused on creating unlimited direct licensing access points where publishers, artists, labels and buyers can do business as never before. A variety of LQ music licensing service plans will provide a powerful array of self-managed sales and licensing tools to sellers and complimentary (free) self-service tools for buyers enabling both to trade efficiently and profitably over the internet on a truly “direct access” global market scale.
http://www.licensequote.com
http://www.musiclicensingcalculator.com
About LicenseQuote.com
Based in Lake Elsinore, California, LicenseQuote.com revolutionizes the way music is licensed. LicenseQuote plans to become the leader in providing advanced licensing tools for artists, producers and labels as well as the media industry and license buyers in general. LicenseQuote was founded by Michael Borges, CEO, Doron Erblich, CTO, and Bea Borges.
About Michael Borges
Michael Borges is founder/owner of AMsystem – Innovative Products and Services Since 1981. Michael’s entrepreneurial career has involved a number of successful new product inventions, developments and marketing ventures. Michael is also an active musician with a background in composing, arranging, recording, production, publishing and music licensing. http://www.michaelborges.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/amsystem
About Doron Erblich
Doron is veteran technology consultant and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Noya – Software Innovations, and in recent years has been working with entrepreneurs, start-up and tech companies from around the world bringing new software products, applications and services to market. He has been a part-time CTO for several start-up companies working on a variety of software technology projects. http://www.noyasoftware.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/doron
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What’s the difference? Several thousand dollars.
That’s what a vanity publisher will charge to print your book.
An indy publisher will not charge you, but will pay you something for your book. It probably won’t be a lot, because indy publishers don’t have a lot of
$$$. That’s because they can’t access major advertising venues to spark the sale of their books. (The cost of TV and mainstream publication ads are prohibitive.)
Call the publisher and talk to them. Sometimes they’re very protective of what they consider their “top drawer” stuff….but you never know until you ask….
Independent publishers differ from vanity presses in a couple of ways. First, they don’t charge you to publish your book. They take a percentage of the sales and you take a percentage. Secondly, they don’t accept just any manuscript to publish. Thirdly, independent publishers will help promote you book. Take a look at Preditors and Editors (pred-ed.com) for a list of publishers and rankings on how trustworthy P&E thinks they are.
You need to look for poetry journals where the editors have a taste for what you are writing. Go to the local university, and riffle through their collection of magazines. Get the Writer’s source book (can’t remember name, annual list of existing publishers taking submissions) and look for likely things. There are dozens of contests which print the winners.
Locally, look for your PEN or PEN Women’s group for writers. Look for places doing readings, start with open mic, and if people like your stuff, you’ll get more exposure at invited readings.
there is a author of gay Fiction on y answers.
Master Buz Lawson
I put a star so he will see the question hopefully
How does an independent (new) singer get demos of songs from publishers or otherwise find a song to sing?
Where should a poet with actual talent submit their work?
Where does an amateur poet receive recognition for their work? Submissions to the American Poetry Society, or independent publishers? Is there a national group I should know about? I appreciate all answers and suggestions, thank you!
Yuggy2000 – Is there something wrong with thinking highly of my work?
I’m not very sensitive, so if you were trying to be condescending, your time was wasted.
Are there any publishers of Gay Men’s fiction like Naiad Press (which is for Lesbians)?
Naiad Press has been in business for a long time and does mail orders too, which can be handy for folks in the closet or the hinterlands. My question is about whether anyone has dealt with them as an author, what you thought of them, and whether there is that same kind of independent publisher with a mixed gay or male preference/audience. Thanks.
Thank you for all the good suggestions, my brother is gay too and I appreciate your help in finding some books he might like. Specific question is because I don’t know of any publishers and am being a little lazy and asking here first before falling into a huge search the web thing which will not have the added bonus of people evaluating the publisher as reputable or not. Thanks to everyone for your answers so far!
Author published by independent publisher?
Have any of you ever been published by an independent publisher?
What was your experience?
What’s the difference between an Independent Publisher and Vanity publisher?
are independent publishers more legit?
Also, do i need to find my niche when writing fiction?