I recently finished up Start & Run Your Own Record Label by Daylle Deanna Schwartz, and it was good. It's a good write up of the big picture of getting a record label off the ground as well as the details that are needed to succeed.

The text covers how to conceptualize the necessary business plan, how to find funding, distributors to contact (and how to package up the label to get their cooperation), ways to track down retail outlets, negotiating points — in general, just about everything you would need to start getting your head around a label birth. Schwartz's writing style is engaging and brisk; she's written another book that I will probably be picking up in the very near future.

It's a good book, one that I would recommend to anyone who wanted to understand the nuts and bolts of how a label would work. Far better than the last book on label business that I read.