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I can tell you my experience and what I learned about this in class.
My friend and the teacher in the class is a well known bluegrass artist. Her name is Donna Hughes
www.donnahughes.com
She is a wonderful singer/songwriter. She is on Rounder Records now, works with Tony Rice, JD Crowe, Alison Kraus, and many other big names in the music biz.
She had one publishing company work with her in the past. She was somewhat disapponted in their not pitching for her as promised. She represents herself now, with her own publishing company, home based and has done quite well. It is not easy to do it yourself and it depends on how much time you have, contacts, etc. She said something like...
on a cd sell if you publish it yourself you make like 9 cents on a cd and only 4.5 if you are not the publisher.

I am trying to publish my own now, but if a publisher came along and liked my work, (which is a hugh long shot) I am not sure I would sign over life rights to every thing I wrote along with upcoming work, as then you are confined to this contract even if you are not happy with how or how often they are trying to sell your work or pitch it to artists. If it is a big pub. company with contacts, it would be well worth it. I am curious to hear others response on this. I am new to this as well.

Just telling you what I was told in songwriting class from an artist:)

Kimberly