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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Richly detailed if flawed history of the music industrys troubled digital transitionBy billrosenblattRichly detailed history of the upheaval in the music business during the transition from CDs to digital; from the perspective of the major labels and with particular emphasis on EMI and Warner Music Group - and relatively little about Universal Music Group; the largest of the majors. Hardy is a financial journalist; so he focuses on the business aspect rather than on pop stars and so on.Two things make there book tough going at times. One is the constant barrage of numbers - earnings; profit margins and so on; the kind that youd find in Financial Times newspaper stories. The other is the serious lack of copy editing - hundreds of spelling and punctuation errors; and some factual errors that I caught (and who knows how many I didnt). But otherwise worthwhile reading for students of the music industry. Its particularly valuable as a story of what happened from the perspective of the major labels rather than Silicon Valley.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Good book; useless editingBy Christian GrausThe book is excellent; but the proof reading was beyond a joke; making the book almost unreadable. Examples include inserted words; missing worlds; misspelled words ( Coldplay was spelled Coldpay one time; Wal-Mart was spelled Wall Mart one time ); and basically wrong statements ( such as a break down of profits from the apple store that added up to 89 cents for a 99 cent track ). Page 309 is my favourite; it contains the phrase: some with careers stretching back to the 190s and 197070s. I do think that the author underestimates the impact of downloads; and yet focuses on the fall in revenues that they brought; but my rating would be 3-4 stars if the book was readable.