Music Maker Publications

Music Maker Publications is a publishing company established in Ely, Britain in 1986,^[1] that specialized in books and magazines relevant to the music industry.^[2] Magazines published by Music Maker have included Music Technology, Guitarist, Rhythm, Home & Studio Recording, Home Keyboard Review, and Hip Hop Connection.^[2]

Andrew Brel, who formed Bridge Recordings in 1989,^[3] promoted the distribution of Bridge albums through his association with Music Maker and its chairman, Terry Day. This enabled numerous successful promotions though the wide circulation of the magazine, Guitarist.

In the late 1980s, it began publishing separate U.S. editions of three titles, "sharing about 25 percent of their content with their British counterparts".^[2] In the 1990s, the company faced some marketing difficulties brought on by "stiff competition from its rivals in the United States (and a general down turn in the synthesizer market)", and consequently "was forced to allow its U.S. edition of Music Technology to suspend independent operations and be absorbed by its more successful U.S. publication, Home & Studio Recording".^[2] In the fall of 1990, Music Maker entered into an agreement with Miller Freeman, Inc., under which the latter "would take over the publication of Rhythm (U.S.), while continuing to share some of its editorial content with the U.K. edition".^[2] Hip Hop Connection was later sold to Future plc, in Bath.^[4] In the late 1990s, Terry Day sold Music Maker.^[1]

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