Click to enlargeDigital Songbook - Janis Ian

Please read ALL of the instructions below! Digital songbooks are a very new piece of technology; it's easy to make a mistake! If you decide to purchase a digital songbook, update to the latest Acrobat reader first if you haven't done so. You can get it here.

Order ONLY one songbook per order.

Do not order any other items with that order.

Select FIRST CLASS MAIL, no matter where you live. This will add a Yahoo! ten cent service charge.

Immediately after you place your order, there will be a BLUE BOX in the upper right of the next page that says DOWNLOAD. You MUST click this link to get to the download. You will not be SENT a link.

If you're overseas, Yahoo! may stall. Please contact merch@janisian.com in that event, and include the last four digits of your order number.

Because it's print-quality, this is a large download; it may take a while.

This is a electronic version of the original 45 page songbook for Janis' first self-titled album, originally printed in 1967, and for our money it's the coolest of the five. We went into the archives, picked our best copy and scanned it into .pdf format. Not just the vocal, guitar and piano notation, but also the original rare photographs, sketches and notes from Janis' journals back then.
Because we were scanning a 40 year old document, we won't kid you, the pages were somewhat worn. Also, because it was originally bound in the 60's, the printer didn't quite cut the original songbook square, so some of the charts are a little slanted... A true 60's folk music experience!
We had to unbind all of the pages to deliver the best quality document possible. In other words, we had to destroy OUR copy to make yours. But don't feel guilty; just buy the songbook file, print it up, and that old songbook will live on! Of course, if you just let it die without buying one, some people will consider you a bad person. I'm just saying...
When this item is purchased, the buyer will be provided a link to download a 8MB .pdf file containing the entire songbook, including front and back covers, Table of Contents, and foreword, as well as all the charts. You can then print the file on your printer, view it on your computer, or even take it to a print house for printing on high quality stock and binding. You'll also be charged ten cents for shipping. We know, that's ridiculous, but if we don't charge you that, Yahoo! will automatically charge you a whole mess more....

Note! Facilities such as Kinko's may object to printing and/or binding this because of copyright protection concerns. We have included a permissions note on the very last page. Believe it or not, we had to get permission to do this ourselves. We thank our friends at EMI Japan and Hal Leonard for their willingness to experiment with this new paradigm!

On the order make sure you check the box for a confirmation email. The email will contain a link to look at your order and the download button so you can get to that screen if you have an Adobe problem.



JanisIan-DigitalSongbook$6.95