What is included with this book?
Introduction | p. 1 |
Complements in competitors' clothing | p. 3 |
The nature of information | p. 4 |
Overview of the bumpy road to prosperity | p. 7 |
The plan of this book | p. 9 |
Why today's threats and opportunities are so profound | p. 11 |
Innovation | p. 15 |
Surfing the Hertzian wave : the early history of radio | p. 16 |
Marconi (and only Marconi) calling | p. 18 |
Voices in the air | p. 20 |
Voices carry : the early history of the recording industry | p. 25 |
Lights, camera, oligopoly : history of the film industry | p. 29 |
There's something on : history of the television industry | p. 30 |
E Unum Pluribus? : history of filesharing | p. 36 |
Ascension | p. 41 |
Tuning in to network effects | p. 42 |
More than wireless telegraphy : radio becomes an industry | p. 43 |
Making money with radio | p. 49 |
Jockeying the discs : records become popular | p. 50 |
Your best entertainment : movies become big business | p. 54 |
Then there were three : the television industry | p. 58 |
It's good to share? : the emergence of peer-to-peer services | p. 60 |
Fear | p. 67 |
The Sonny Bono law : I got you babe for another twenty years | p. 68 |
The law needn't be an ass : a positive role for legislation | p. 71 |
For home use only : the battle between radio and music | p. 75 |
Big screen versus small : the studio system joins together against television | p. 80 |
The Boston strangler? : movie studios and television fear the VCR | p. 83 |
Refusing to face the music : disrupting the record companies | p. 85 |
Prosperity | p. 91 |
Gold records : the golden age of radio - for recording companies | p. 95 |
Television saves the studios | p. 96 |
Videos and VCRs : a cash machine for studios | p. 99 |
Happier bedfellows : content-technology cooperation | p. 102 |
The music industry post-Napster | p. 104 |
Conclusion | p. 113 |
Where the money will be : the power of complements and the risks of collision | p. 117 |
Convergence or collision? | p. 118 |
Honey, I shrunk the value proposition | p. 120 |
Let's get horizontal | p. 122 |
Linking to prosperity : the 2 percent solution | p. 124 |
Rules for success : company-level view | p. 126 |
Rules for success : industry-level view | p. 128 |
The forces shaping the future of entertainment | p. 131 |
Tools of resistance : patents and copyrights | p. 141 |
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