More notes for composers as SibeliusMusic Stores announced

Your own personalised shop front for selling sheet music online

Sibelius Software is delighted to announce SibeliusMusic Stores, an exciting and innovative breakthrough that will prove invaluable to composers and performers around the world. The unique service allows users to sell and publish their music within a customised, easy to use and secure online environment.

The launch follows extensive consultation with composers and Sibelius users worldwide. CEO Jeremy Silver commented: "SibeliusMusic Stores is a very compelling service to our customers; it's about breaking down barriers between composers and the market, and providing a high profile and dynamic marketing engine for our users."

The concept of the service is to make it as easy as possible for people who wish to sell music online, and to provide customers with all the benefits of a secure environment without their having the hassle of creating and maintaining their own e-commerce site.

For a modest monthly fee ($30 US per month), composers now have the opportunity to benefit from the association with the Sibelius brand and its leading edge e-commerce technology. They will be able to market themselves and their work through a personalised zone within a vibrant, busy and high profile online environment.

The popularity of the Sibelius brand worldwide will ensure that SibeliusMusic Stores attracts a high volume of visitors thereby producing valuable publicity and developing markets for subscribers. Visitors to the site will be able to view, listen to, print, transpose and purchase scores and compositions.

Accessibility and ease of use for customers is a key issue and Sibelius has ensured that creating a personalised zone within SibeliusMusic Stores is simple - no previous web experience necessary

The site has been carefully designed to ensure that all relevant traffic is carefully matched to the composers 'store window'. Subscribers can regularly update features such as layout, colours, fonts, graphics and images. They can even advertise specific news and events, and publicise other related activities. Other product offers can be added through the site, for example CDs, MP3s and other similar products.

All the e-commerce and management is handled by Sibelius and subscribers can easily access all information regarding sales and prints.

The monthly subscription fee is $30 and anybody interested can find out more by logging onto www.sibeliusmusic.com.

Notes to editors

Sibelius is one of the UK's fastest growing and most successful technology companies and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2003, a year in which the company's product portfolio increased from 5 programs to 12 in twelve months.  The company's reputation for well designed, easy to use, technically innovative products continued to grow.  Numerous awards have been heaped on Sibelius again during the last 12 months, including the coveted gold badge from the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters for services to the music industry, the UK Music Industries Association 'Best Software' award, and a special award for contribution to music from Classic FM.  Currently Sibelius employs over 60 people in its London headquarters and in its US subsidiary in Walnut Creek , northern California .  The company sells its products in over 100 countries worldwide, including in Japan where it launched last summer and is distributed by Yamaha Music and Media.