A friend of mine is an accomplished musician, and wants to make a CD of jazz tunes, as a physical CD and available on iTunes. He wants to self publish, rather than find a publisher. He was asking me a "how do I do that" question, as he has typically used a publisher in the past.

He'd be playing standards, so would need to pay royalties for compositions. Those would likely be the only applicable royalties. He would have the tunes in final audio format, ready to go on the CD.

So now he would need to learn:
- how to get songs on iTunes, and pay royalties for iTunes sales.
- how to get physical CD's made, and pay royalties on sales.

He doesn't want to learn all that, wants to hire a service that would do it for a fee,


Ideally, I think he'd want the following services from a company:
- send audio to the company, with graphics, get back say 1,000 copies of the CD, and be able to order more when needed.
- company has some kind of fulfillment service so if people want to buy a physical CD, they can go to a site and order it.
- the company pays the royalties for song compositions.
- gets song on iTunes

So, my question is, are there companies that help with that, ie) provide one-stop service for self-publishing a CD? Or is so easy that people just do it themselves or ?

Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.