How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief

Business & Money

Witt, Stephen

Business Culture

Vintage

Finalist for the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year One of Billboard’s 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time A New York Times Editors’ Choice ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: The Washington Post • The Financial Times • Slate • The Atlantic • Time • Forbes “[How Music Got Free] has the clear writing and brisk reportorial acumen of a Michael Lewis book.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? 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. Journalist Stephen Witt traces the secret history of digital music piracy, from the German audio engineers who invented the mp3, to a North Carolina compact-disc manufacturing plant where factory worker Dell Glover leaked nearly two thousand albums over the course of a decade, to the high-rises of midtown Manhattan where music executive Doug Morris cornered the global market on rap, and, finally, into the darkest recesses of the Internet. Through these interwoven narratives, Witt has written a thrilling book that depicts the moment in history when ordinary life became forever entwined with the world online—when, suddenly, all the music ever recorded was available for free. In the page-turning tradition of writers like Michael Lewis and Lawrence Wright, Witt’s deeply reported first book introduces the unforgettable characters—inventors, executives, factory workers, and smugglers—who revolutionized an entire artform, and reveals for the first time the secret underworld of media pirates that transformed our digital lives. An irresistible never-before-told story of greed, cunning, genius, and deceit, How Music Got Free isn’t just a story of the music industry—it’s a must-read history of the Internet itself.

How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention

Humor & Entertainment

Penguin??Books

The Management of International Tourism (RLE Tourism)

International tourism is one of today’s major growth industries necessitating increasingly more sophisticated management techniques. In the light of this expansion and growing significant economic importance, this book provides a comprehensive overview of international tourism, placing particular emphasis on the management of tourism.  The subject coverage of the book is wide-ranging: the authors examine the following issues:   the impact of environmental issues on tourism management   tourism demand and forecasting   the key methods of operation of companies within the industry   the functional areas of marketing, finance, organization and staffing   research and innovation    corporate strategy.   The book will be of value and interest to both students and academics, as well as managers in the fields of tourism, travel, hospitality and consultancy.

Buckley, Peter

Brooke, Michael

Economics

Routledge

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

VIKING

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

Biography & History

Author Stephen Witt brings a fresh, new voice to contemporary fiction with his new, offbeat novel American Moses. After an upstate New York town’s only synagogue is burned down, devastated members of the small congregation stand in the smoldering ashes wondering what’s next. The Rabbi vows to rebuild, but Southie Lewis, a secular Jew of very modest means, offers to lead whoever is willing to the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas—the county’s most rapidly growing metropolis—a new Promised Land. To his surprise, a rag-tag bunch of fellow Jews sign on for the trip. So begins this interracial love story between Southie, a lifelong drifter, and Zippy, his Jamaican-American wife, who along with their two children, Coree and Billy, come up against the daunting mosaic of contemporary America, while struggling with their own lives. Written with bittersweet humor and a touch of tragedy, American Moses will make you laugh and cry while entertaining you every step of the way.

American Moses

Literature & Fiction

United States

Never Sink Books

The Street Singer

The second edition of this widely acclaimed introductory text has been fully revised to provide a concise summary of modern portfolio theory.

Portfolio Theory and Investment Management

Fielding, John

Dobbins, Richard

Wiley/Blackwell

The Street Singer follows flat-broke musician, Jason Spirit, as he stumbles into contact with high-powered developer Thadeus Hoover- a thinly veiled take on developer Bruce Ratner. Mr. Spirirt ends up playing project supporters and opponents against each other in order to get a song he's written to rapper BScott- a take on Brooklyn Nets Minority owner Jay-Z. This is a novel about sex, money and power in a changing Brooklyn, a musical and often humorous take on present day NYC, complete with Russian oligarchs, blogger journalists, gentrification, poverty, celebrity adulation and basketball. An American discovering a new paradigm of global capitalism with a reinvented Brooklyn at its core.

The Street Singer: A Tale of Sex, Money, and Power in a Changing Brooklyn

Humor & Satire

Changing Lives Pr

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