This is by no means a complete list of the best publications out there, nor is it in any particular order. It’s just a sampling. Have any comments about the list or suggestions for others? Please join the conversation and let us know.
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
– Seth Godin - Meet the Millennials – Terry McBride
- CRM Bible – Pyinna
- Word of Mouth Marketing – Andy Sernovitz
- The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-on Collision of Rock and Commerce
– Fred Goodman - Confessions of a Record Producer: How to Survive the Scams and Shams of the Music Business
– Moses Avalon - The Problem With Music – Steve Albini
- 1,000 True Fans – Kevin Kelly
- Music Industry Survival Guide – Tunecore
- The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution
– David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard
- Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
– Lawrence Lessig - The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
– Richard Florida - The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
– Clayton Christensen - Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment
– William Fisher - Fair Use: The Story of The Letter U and The Numeral 2 – Negativeland
- Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
– Douglas Hofstadter
This is the first of a few gift guides we’ll be publishing over the next few weeks so keep you eyes peeled for more.
A few more music-related favorites:
Please Kill Me (maybe my favorite book, period)
Straight Life (Art Pepper’s gnarly auto-bio)
Beneath The Underdog (Mingus. Mind-blowing.)
and for your coffee table:
Fuck You Heroes
Punk
ian
Tribes is a great read – really inspiring – and Terry McBride’s paper is much overlooked but essential stuff. Promises To Keep is (amazingly, given the pace of change in digital music) still relevant and a great read also.
I gave Florida’s “Rise” and “Flight” of the Creative Class as gifts last year! I still have problems with Kusek & Leonhard’s “music like water” fantasy-land presented in “The Future of Music” though…not sold on that one.
I’m happy to say I’m unfamiliar with the others, but given the ones that I DO know I’ll certainly be checking out the others. Cheers Gary!
And:
Chronicles: Volume 1 – destroys all your notions about Dylan
The Cathedral and the Bazaar – history of software plus one of the most important texts about business and commerce
Hostadter and @Andy Weissman’s “Cathedral…” really provoked me
Here’s a few favs (disclosure: some of these I’ve barely cracked into but it’s quite apparent they’re awesome)
Shaping Things: What happens when every Thing has an RFID tag that is linked to the Cloud
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life: The best history of Dj’ing (from radio to raves) EVER. The interview with Grandmaster Flash re: inventing cueing is priceless (and also an incredible case study for democratizing innovation.
Thinking Strategically: Game theory for you and me
Co-opetition: Game theory for you and your business