Customer Reviews

David Wimble's 8th Edition The Indie Bible

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Around 50% of items I sent out cam back undeliverable... although this is not necessarily the authors fault, due diligence should have been applied in checking addresses.

The catagories are very poor. The whole book needs to be rehashed...

Don't waste your money....

This book is quite simply the most useful Indie Resource on the market.

I spoke directly to David Wimble, the editor and they do link checks each and every single day to ensure validity and quality of their product. If you buy the e-book as well, it gives you access to all the updates for one full year!

I've bought this book since edition two, and will continue to purchase until edition 100!!!

One of the reviews says the addresses are out of date as well, which for a budding Indie musician, mailing out pressed CDs to addresses all over the world, that can be very expensive.

Very Indie oriented - thus the labels & vendors section is online labels, or perhaps even just digital distributors. Beware of digital distributors as so far I have not come across one that is not charging musicians a fee to list (and perhaps promote) their CDs and digitals - it's a numbers game though where the distributor makes cash up front, and even on a monthly basis from the musician. Even without up-front fees a distributor can sell 5 CDs per year for 1000 performing acts and still make 5000*<distributor's-cut>. In the book publishing world that's called vanity publishing and is nearly always a rip-off.

Nevertheless this title is Indie oriented so it has radio stations (non-commercial), reviewers and online vendors and labels. If you want to reach a little further then get the Musicians's Atlas 2009 as well.

Great resource for anyone in the music industry that needs help starting out! The indie bible branches out to everyone including promotions, marketing, venues, management, booking, etc... Great way to network as well. For those who want to advertise your business i.e., graphic artists, web design, button making, etc... get yourself listed in the book and you will be contacted. The book is revised all the time and is also set up geographically. A must have.

I am currently promoting two independent artist friends of mine, cheaply, and this is one of the books I've used to help gather links for them, and nearly all the ones I've checked are defunct and redirect to generic search pages (common when domains are expired).

Biggest waste of money, ever. Just search for things on the web, and you'll be a lot happier. Spend the $30 on 1/8th a tank of gas. Haha.

Anyone that is a performer needs to read this book. Great resources on where and who to send your music.

Gave it as a gift and was impressed with it.