📚 Writing and Publishing

Books with writing and publishing on their catalogue record, first published between 1915 and 2015, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject writing and publishing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 563 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Writing for Vaudeville	Brett Page	1915	17
	Songwriting	Stephen Citron	1985	15
	All You Need to Know About the Music Business	Donald S. Passman	1991	13
	This business of music	M. William Krasilovsky	1971	11
	All you need to know about the music business	Donald S. Passman	1991	11
	How to write a hit song	Molly-Ann Leikin	1987	10
	Songwriting for dummies	Jim Peterik	2002	10
	Songwriting	Dick Weissman	2001	7
	The Songwriter's Workshop	Jimmy Kachulis	2003	7
	How to write songs that sell	Arthur Korb	1949	5
	If they ask you, you can write a song	Al Kasha	1979	5
	The songwriter's rhyming dictionary	Sammy Cahn	1983	5
	The Craft and Business of Songwriting	John Braheny	1988	5
	Melody in songwriting	Jack Perricone	2000	5
	The Complete Singer-Songwriter	Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers	2003	5
	The craft of Christian songwriting	Robert Sterling	2009	5
	Writing the Broadway musical	Aaron Frankel	1977	4
	The modern rhyming dictionary	Gene Lees	1981	4
	How to Pitch and Promote Your Songs	Fred Koller	1988	4
	Songwriters on songwriting	Paul Zollo	1991	4
	Releasing an independent record	Gary Hustwit	1991	4
	How to Be a Hit Songwriter	Molly-Ann Leikin	2003	4
	Making Music Make Money	Eric Beall	2003	4
	The frustrated songwriter's handbook	Karl Coryat	2006	4
	Popular Lyric Writing	Andrea Stolpe	2007	4
	Beginning songwriting	Andrea Stolpe	2015	4
	The songwriters' success manual	Lee Pincus	1974	3
	How to have your hit song published	Jay Warner	1978	3
	The songwriter's and musician's guide to making great demos	Harvey Rachlin	1988	3
	Music publishing	Randy Poe	1990	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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