Ticketing Industry Books

The 100 Sporting Events You Must See Live: An Insider’s Guide to Creating the Sports Experience of a Lifetime
By Robert Tuchman

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For the casual armchair fan to the fan who dreams of a front row seat at the games, The 100 Sporting Events You MUST See Live, provides invaluable information about tickets and travel as well as the parties and the pageantry for the top games across the sporting landscape. A detailed travel guide from Robert Tuchman, founder and president of the global leader in sports and entertainment promotion, TSE Sports & Entertainment, the book is replete with insider knowledge and expert advice.

We are a list-obsessed people and sports-obsessed to boot, so it's a book that quenches our insatiable appetites for both. From the obvious to the obscure, Tuchman's list of must-see events is as thorough as it is controversial. What events made the top 100 and where did they rank? The book is sure to fire up sports fans everywhere. But more than a mere list, for each event the reader learns a detailed history of their favorite contests and all the background information to make a successful pilgrimage. Featuring also a list of honorable mentions that just missed the cut and a list of the top sports cities with arguments for what makes each city the perfect sports mecca, The 100 Sporting Events You MUST See Live, is a must for every sports fan's library.

2009 Musician's Atlas
By Jude Folkman

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This indispensable directory for music business professionals has been completely updated for 2009, with more than 15,000 U.S. and international contacts in more than 28 categories. These include club talent buyers, college and festival bookers, commercial and college radio programmers, promoters and publicists, film and TV music supervisors, distributors, marketing services, and other essential contacts. Highlights of this 10th edition include more than 800 new performance opportunities, song contests, CD compilation contacts, and e-commerce services.

Booking and Tour Management for the Performing Arts
by Rena Shagan

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Solo artists and performing groups of all types will find everything needed to book performances, build tours, and succeed on the road in the third edition of this classic reference. This third edition of BOOKING & TOUR MANAGEMENT FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS has been updated to include information about the revolutionary new ways that performers, managers, and presenters are using the Internet to transform the business of booking live performing events. Special chapters by outside experts provide in-depth information about what presenters need from artists, the technical aspects of touring, the unique demands of touring abroad, and touring through the eyes of the artist. The book includes a Tour Manager’s Resource Kit and numerous other ready-to-use sample materials, including a contract, letter of agreement, technical information questionnaire, performance checklists, calendars, schedules, tour budget model, technical glossary, and much more.

This Business of Artist Management
By Jr. Xavier M. Frascogna & H. Lee Hetherington

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This authoritative reference on artist management in the music industry is the standard for all phases of managing a musician's career from both the artist's and manager's point of view. This substantially updated edition covers the major changes that have transformed the business world and music industry over the past six years. Particular emphasis is given to the impact of the Internet, including the MP3 controversy and its lingering ramifications, copyright licensing on the Web, navigating trade identity issues on the Net, domain names, and the high-tech fight against cyberpiracy. Included are real-world examples-as well as new interviews with top booking agents, personal managers, concert promoters, record company executives, road managers, and artists.

This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring: A Practical Guide to Creating, Selling, Organizing, and Staging Concerts
By Ray Waddell, Rich Barnet & Jake Berry

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Concerts are part art, part party - and a big part business. This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring is the first to focus on that all-important business aspect, from creating a show, to selling a show, to organizing the show, to staging the show. Working with venues, personnel , booking, promoting, marketing, publicity, public relations, financial management, and much more are covered in this indispensable one-volume resource. And the ideas and techniques explained here can be used for every type of concert promotion, including college shows, artist showcases, club gigs, as well as major events handled by local promoters, nationwide promoters, and worldwide promoters. Concert promoters and tour managers at every level need to know This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring.

Concert Tour Production Management
By John Vasey

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Concert Tour Production Management deals with the business of production and sets out guidelines to follow in order to literally get the show on the road. Concert Tour Production Management provides the basic information to manage the production for a touring concert from start to finish in the most effective and efficient way possible.

Beginning with an introduction to the touring concert, explaining who's who on the road, the author guides you through a tour setup using a realistic itinerary that visits different types of venues using the production manager's checklists. He also covers the role of the local promoter's production manager and how to manage a crew. The appendices provide some basic electrical formulae, a performance contract, a technical rider, a production checklist to suit most situations, and several forms to help expedite routine tasks.

All you need to know about concert touring by an industry expert.
Appendices provide industry standard forms and information.
Only book dedicated to production management for concert tours.

The Economics of Sports
By Mark J. Eschenfelder & Ming Li

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Written for students with some exposure to economics concepts and analysis, "Economics of Sport" is ideal for a lower division elective course for economics majors, for master's students in sport management, or for economics professors who are in the process of learning more about the sport industry. In its newly updated 13 chapters, this second edition defines the sport industry and reviews economic concepts before examining in detail such central issues as benefits and costs, the theory of the firm, profit maximisation as a major motivator, and alternative motivators in non-profit organisations. Drawing the student deeper into the functions and limits of sport economics, the book discusses elasticity of demand and supply, and examines market structures, from perfect competition to monopolies; analyses various reasons for government-provided sport, community sport, and private enterprise, and the reasons for mergers and acquisitions. The book also: assesses the contribution of the sport industry to the U.S. economy; surveys and relates the economic impact studies used to justify spending, the labour-related issues in the sport industry, including professional athletes, public relations directors, and sales representatives in various types of sport firms and organisations; and, details the economic theories related to both government and industry self-regulation applicable to the sport industry, and the antitrust laws and their applications in the sport industry. "Economics of Sport" is a thorough and accessible text, perfect for everyone who wants a complete understanding of the sport industry today.

Fenway!: The Ultimate Fan's Guide, 2009 Edition
By Tim Shea

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This new edition of the popular Fenway guide has been updated with new information throughout, including a chapter that tells you how many rows your seat is from the field - no matter where you sit in the park. The book also tells everything you need to know about going to a game at Fenway Park: how to get tickets, where to sit (and where not to), and the best places to eat, drink, and stay overnight. It explains the dramatic improvements made to the park in the past 7 years, and shows how the new owners have made these changes without altering the essential character of Fenway. In addition, it is the only place you will find detailed diagrams showing exactly which seats have obstructed views blocked by the park's infamous poles. This book is essential for anyone who loves Fenway Park or plans on going there. Buy this book and you will have a great time every time at Fenway, and you will never have to sit behind a pole in an obstructed view seat again.

Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business (Paperback)
By Fredric Dannen

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A nauseatingly honest and therefore controversial expose of the base beings that inhabit the higher levels of the music industry. Filled with horror stories that will confirm your worst suspicions about the toxicity of what my friends and I call "Planet CD Wood."

From Publishers Weekly
English rock group Pink Floyd was one of the hottest bands in 1980, with an LP shooting up the charts and a concert tour that sold out within hours. But the group was unable to get airplay for its latest single, at least not without engaging the services of a nascent breed of freelance promoters whose practices ushered in a new era of payola. These promotors, dubbed "indies," used illegal methods and had suspected mob connections. That the recording industry not only tolerated but embraced the indies is indicative of the questionable tactics now employed in this high-stakes arena, charges Dannen in a sharply critical study. At its center is industry leader CBS records, whose president Walter Yetnikoff is depicted as a bully of Machiavellian proportions whose style set the tone throughout the business in the '80s. Dannen, a reporter for Institutional Investor , mixes the skills of an investigative journalist with the gifts of an expert storyteller in an expose that will intrigue and appall readers with its disclosures. Photos not seen by PW. First serial to Vanity Fair; author tour.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Perry Boys
By Ian Hough

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Perry Boys describes the gradual formation of a brand-new fashion from unrelated fragments of late-70s culture and how that fashion obsessed the football hooligans of the time. Set in northwest England, the brand-marketing capital of the nation, Perry Boys charts a track through music, violence, drugs and attitudes with regard to the way those things changed over time, particularly the labels worn by lads who went to football and liked a laugh.

If you're interested in the evolution of the Casual movement but are tired of the typical hooligan fare, read this book. It will take you vividly back to the years 1979, 80, 81 when this thing was developing and causing much animosity between the northwest's two cities, Liverpool and Manchester. There are some who claim Casual began in 1977 on Merseyside, and while that is probably half-true the proper designer labels like Le Coq Sportif, Lacoste and Munsingwear didn't kick in until late '79, early '80 and this is the focus for much of the first half of Perry Boys.

The remainder deals with the late-80s and into the 90s and 00s. The gang scene and the way in which it impacted Manchester's clubs is discussed, along with some descriptions of drugs and their effect on the system. Perry Boys author Ian Hough is currently writing his second book about this era from the perspective of those who travelled abroad grafting and he contributes regularly to Manchester United fanzine United We Stand and other publications. Hough's blog, http://thenamelessthing.com
features many interesting tales from the early Casual and Madchester eras. Not to be missed.

Perry Boys Abroad: The Ones Who Got Away (Paperback)
By Ian Hough

Perry Boys Abroad will be released on June 8, 2009. Pre-order the book today!

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Perry Boys Abroad is a thirty-year social history of British working-class underground football culture. It tracks the “firms” of grafters touting tickets and merchandise across the continent. The book takes you into the heart of Manchester, to the original haunts of those who invented the “grafting” and touting game back in the 70s. It sits you on a jet airliner, off to hostile lands where customs and security officials tried to dam their airports against the growing flood of English ticket touts and thieves who plagued European and Australian stadium events. Manchester was always a northern, working-class British city, a hive of industry where hybrid fashion and music busily self-organised into a subterranean hierarchy. Entrepeneurs and gangsters - as well as hairdressers and musicians - were vital in teasing out those elements far enough so that they could be sculpted and manipulated. It is in this sculpting and manipulating that a keystone species emerged from the urban ecosystem, known as Perry Boys. It is they who provide the focus for the story, as they explored the ticket game and its counterfeit-merchandise cousin. From there, the story leads to Israeli kibbutzim, Mexico, Morocco and South America. If you want to learn about British social history with a difference, this is the place to start.

Scum Airways
By John Sugden

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Soccer is big business, and it doesn't come much bigger than Manchester United. But in the shadow of Old Trafford, a black economy is growing to rival the commercial power of the official sales channels. Scum Airways is an inside investigation of the Manchester grafters—touts, black marketeers, and shady dealers—who, led by characters like "Big Tommy," have come up with a remarkably successful money-making venture: Scum Airways. With the expansion of the Champions League came the opportunity for the grafters to move into the independent travel business. International Travel is the company for those who, through choice or because their police records prohibit them, do not travel with the official clubs. Tommy's core clients are the "Lads"—die-hard 30-something football hooligans. Scum Airways follows the exploits and adventures of Big Tommy and his team of grafters as they continue to build their empire. John Sugden went along for the ride and provides startling insights into professional soccer's burgeoning black economy.

Sold Out So What! How to Save Money at Concerts & Sporting Events with Tricks the Ticket Brokers and Scalpers Don't Want You to Know
By Max Deale

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With the countless how-to books out there flooding the market, you might be tempted to dismiss Sold Out...SO WHAT! But if you take a closer look, you will find that there has NEVER been a how-to guide for concert and sporting event enthusiasts on navigating the treacherous waters of dealing with unscrupulous Ticket Brokers, "Authorized Ticket re-sellers" and Scalpers.

The Problem is Getting Worse

In 2007, many states made Scalping event tickets legal, with law makers essentially throwing in the collective towel on monitoring this $10 billion industry. This has left the average "Joe" event fan to fend for themselves as Ticket Brokers and Scalpers grab up all of the tickets before they go on sale to the public and then inflate them to obscene prices.

Finally, a Solution...

Max Deale has stepped forward to release a "survival guide" for the common live event attendee, the true fan. He has outlined the secrets that the High-Priced Ticket Brokers and Scalpers DON'T want you to know that will give fans a fighting chance to see their favorite Concert or Sporting Event without having to donate a kidney to get there.
Sold Out...SO WHAT! isn't theoretical in its approach, nor does it take on the role of victim; this lighthearted, engaging playbook chronicles every step the author took in building his own successful system to level the playing field and enjoy the life of a Superfan. In Max's world, the fans REJOICE!

The Sports Event Playbook: Managing and Marketing Winning Events
By Frank Supovitz & Joe Goldblatt

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The Sports Event Management and Marketing Playbook is a step-by-step guide for the real world, offering expert advice on how to properly build sports events into successful and financially viable properties. Authored by a successful professional who's in the trenches every day, this helpful resource offers both first-time planners and seasoned organizers with the expertise and framework for staging top-quality sports events at any level - from the community to the global stage.

Along with practical checklists, tables, figures, and forms, The Sports Event Management and Marketing Playbook features:

* "Sideline Stories" presenting real-life examples of the development, management, and execution of sports events
* "Coach's Clipboard" featuring questions and thought-provoking intellectual exercises that enable readers to apply the lessons of every chapter to hypothetical situations

This book is part of The Wiley Event Management Series.

Ticket Scalping: An American History, 1850-2005
By Kerry Segrave

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Ticket scalping is as much an American staple as apple pie. Beginning as early as the mid-1800s, scalpers, known as "sidewalk men," were charging all the traffic would bear for event tickets. Although these speculators were generally viewed as pariahs and public opinion was against the practice, legal attempts to limit their activities were far from successful. Boston enacted laws as early as 1873, while Pennsylvania followed suit in 1884. Still, such measures did little good since some laws were declared unconstitutional and, for the ones that were upheld, the fines were negligible with jail time rarely served. Over the years, as moral objections to scalping dimmed, the public became more tolerant as the practice became increasingly prevalent. By the 1990s, the capitalist mantras of free market and economic principles of supply and demand were even being used to justify the practice. This volume details the ways in which scalping has changed over the years from a one-man business to an agency-controlled enterprise, from performances by Jenny Lind to Billy Joel. The book examines the general situation, public opinion and legal perception of scalping for four distinct periods: 1850-1899; 1900-1917; 1918-1949 and 1950-2005. Emphasis is placed on the ways in which public and legal perception of the practice has evolved over this period. Scalping, slowly gaining a more positive status, has become more accepted as part of the economic practice of free markets.

The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip: A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums
By Joshua Pahigian & Kevin O'Connell

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The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip is a comprehensive guide to all the diverse and fascinating ballparks throughout the country by two entertaining young writers whose love for the game of baseball and the game of life overflows from each page. Josh Pahigian and Kevin O'Connell's approach to skillfully planning and fully appreciating a road-trip or a visit to a single park is funny and irreverent and loaded with information designed to make the most of the experience.

Part travel manual, part ballpark atlas, part baseball history book, part restaurant and city guide, and, not least, part epic narrative, The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip encompasses all the essential elements of a full-blown baseball road-trip. Included are ticket and travel information, a detailed guide to the best and worst seats in each park, folklore and statistics on each park, tips on each park's trademark foods, and profiles of nearby sports bars and baseball attractions, all within a lively narrative that reminds us that baseball is often the ultimate metaphor for the important things in life.