• All You Need to Know About the Music Business (Donald S. Passman, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2015)
• Black Vinyl White Power (Simon Napier-Bell, Ebury Press, London, 2002)
• Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music (Mark Katz, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2010)
• Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry (Gareth Murphy, Serpent’s Tail, London, 2015)
• Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label (Alan McGee and Luke Brown, Pan Books, London, 2014)
• Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money inside the Music Business (Fredric Dannen, Vintage Books, New York, 1991)
• Howling at the Moon: Confessions of a Music Mogul in an Age of Excess (Walter Yetnikoff with David Ritz, Abacus, London, 2004)
• How Music Works (David Byrne, McSweeney’s, San Francisco, 2012)
• How Soon Is Now: The Madmen and Mavericks Who Made Independent Music 1975-2005 (Richard King, Faber and Faber, London, 2012)
• Noot voor noot (Bindu De Knock, deLex, Amsterdam, 2015)
• Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (Greg Milner, Granta Publications, London, 2010)
• Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records (James Nice, Aurum Press, London, 2010)
• Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay: The dodgy business of popular music (Simon Napier-Bell, Unbound, London, 2014)
• The Plain and Simple Guide to Music Publishing (Randall D. Wixen, Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee, 2014)
• 24 Hour Party People: What the Sleeve Notes Never Tell You (Tony Wilson, Channel 4 Books, London, 2002)