From the Book - 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
1983-1986 : Jerry Shulman's Frisbee : how the compact disc rebuilt the record business
1984-1999 : how big spenders got rich in the post-CD boom
1998-2001 : The teen-pop bubble : boy bands and Britney make the business bigger than ever
1998-2001 : a 19-year-old takes down the industry
with the help of tiny music, and a few questionable big music decisions
2002-2003 : how Steve Jobs built the iPod, revived his company and took over the music business
2003-2007 : Beating up on peer-to-peer services like Kazaa and Grokster fails to save the industry : sales plunge and Tommy Mottola abandons ship
The future : how can the record labels return to the boom times? Hint : not by stonewalling new high-tech models and locking up the content.
Prologue 1979-1982 : disco crashes the record business, Michael Jackson saves the day, and MTV really saves the day
1983-1986 : Jerry Shulman's frisbee : how the compact disc rebuilt the record business
1984-1999 : how big spenders got rich in the post-CD boom
1998-2001 : The teen-pop bubble : boy bands and Britney make the business bigger than ever
1998-2001 : A 19-year-old takes down the industry
with the help of tiny music, and a few questionable big music decisions
2002-2003 : How Steve Jobs built the iPod, revived his company and took over the music business
2003-2007 : Beating up on peer-to-peer services like Kazaa and Grokster fails to save the industry : sales plunge and Tommy Mottola abandons ship
The future : how can the record labels return to the boom times? Hint : not by stonewalling new high-tech models and locking up the content.
