Reddit reviews Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped

I kind of remember a conversation I had where I heard Phish gets at most 10% of the tickets for PTBM, etc. In the book Ticketmasters this is further explained. I do believe that the best any band was able to get in terms of a fan club deal was the Dead's deal with Ticketmaster that gave a 50/50 split. Don't quote me on that, though, read the book!

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Disruption

• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
  
  
• Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
  
  
• The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
  
  Ticketing Today
  
  
• Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
  
  Music Industry
  
  
• Lefsetz's Letter
  
  
• Artifact
  
  Music Marketing
  
  
• Get More Fans: The DIY Guide To The New Music Business
  
  
• Guerrilla Music Marketing, Vol 1: Laying the Foundation for Independent Music Success
  
  
• The Five-Minute Music Marketer: 151 Easy Music Promotion Activities That Take 5 Minutes or Less

This is a fantastic read if you want to know more the business side of things:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0074VPKAI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
There is a whole chapter in there on how and why Pearl Jam tried and failed to do it on their own.