Cast of characters -- Prologue 1979-1982: disco crashes the record business, Michael Jackson saves the day, and MTV really saves the day -- Chapter 1: 1983-1986: Jerry Shulman's frisbee: how the compact disc rebuilt the record business -- Big Music's Big Mistakes, part 1: CD longbox -- Chapter 2: 1984-1999: How big spenders got rich in the post-CD boom -- Big Music's Big Mistakes, part 2: independent radio promotion -- Big Music's Big Mistakes, part 3: Digital audio tape -- Chapter 3: 1998-2001: Teen-pop bubble: boy bands and Britney make the business bigger than ever-but not for long -- Big Music's Big Mistakes, part 4: Killing the single -- Big Music's Big Mistakes, part 5: Pumping up the big boxes -- Chapter 4: 1998-2001: 19-year-old takes down the industry-with the help of tiny music, and a few questionable big music decisions -- Big Music's Big Mistakes, part 6: secure digital music initiative -- Chapter 5: 2002-2003: How Steve Jobs built the iPod, revived his company and took over the music business -- Big Music's Big Mistakes, part 7: the RIAA lawsuits -- Chapter 6: 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 -- Big Music's Big Mistakes, part 8: Sony BMG's rootkit -- Chapter 7: Future: How can the record labels return to the boom times? Hint: not by stonewalling new high-tech models and locking up the content -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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--but not for long -- 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.
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