Witt, Stephen.
Summary: How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It’s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website four times the size of the iTunes Music Store.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 WITRowell, David
Summary: Combines personal memoir, on-the-ground reporting, industry research, and cultural criticism to argue that commercial and cultural forces have laid waste to the cultural ecosystems that have produced decades of great American music. From the scorched-earth demonetizing of artist revenue accomplished by Spotify and its ilk to the rise of dead artists "touring" via hologram, Rowell examines how a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 ROWCarlsson, Sven
Summary: The David vs. Goliath story of Spotify CEO and Founder Daniel Ek―who bet everything on disruptive innovation, and played the giants of Silicon Valley, the music industry, and the podcast world in his quest to build today’s largest online source of audio
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2021