New Music Jukebox offers a 24-hour "virtual" listening room with streaming and downloadable sound files, as well as extensive composer biographies, works lists, publishers, performance data and other information, all cross-referenced.
· There are many ways to measure a publisher's performance, but perhaps the purest is to look at the sales recorded by Nielsen BookScan (covering 90% of UK retailers).
Nowadays, publishers grant performance rights or rent out parts to orchestras.
How can publishers explain performance or compare financial forecasts with what has actually happened?
In the United States, only the composer/songwriter and the publisher are paid performance royalties and not performing artists.
As can be seen in the above chart, the South American publisher achieved best performance when sharing between 11am and 4pm, and poor performance at other times.
Its biggest expense is the licensing fee it pays to publishers and performers; the performance fee, paid to an entity called SoundExchange, which distributes royalties to artists, is equal to something like 50percentt of Pandora's revenue.
The author's new novel, The Quarry, is out on 20 June and is, according to its publisher, "a virtuoso performance whose soaring riffs on the inexhaustible marvel of human perception and rage against the dying of the light will stand among Iain Banks's greatest work".
By buying webwide distribution, the publisher gets better performance, doesn't have to buy server gear that will soon be obsolete, and can avoid the headaches of running its own server system.
This revenue stream was a significant contributor to the publisher's financial performances.
