The book that started the Techlash A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An Amazon Best Business & Leadership Book of 2017 Longlisted for Financial Times/Mc Kinsey Business Book of the Year 2017 A strategy+business Best Business Book of 2017 A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.
Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms--Facebook, Amazon, and Google--that now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing and news industries.
Jonathan Taplin offers a succinct and powerful history of how online life began to be shaped around the values of the men who founded these companies, including Peter Thiel and Larry Page: overlooking piracy of books, music, and film while hiding behind opaque business practices and subordinating the privacy of individual users in order to create the surveillance-marketing monoculture in which we now live.
The enormous profits that have come with this concentration of power tell their own story.
Since 2001, newspaper and music revenues have fallen by 70 percent; book publishing, film, and television profits have also fallen dramatically.
Revenues at Google in this same period grew from $400 million to $74.
5 billion.
Today, Google's You Tube controls 60 percent of all streaming-audio business but pay for only 11 percent of the total streaming-audio revenues artists receive.
More creative content is being consumed than ever before, but less revenue is flowing to the creators and owners of that content.
The stakes here go far beyond the livelihood of any one musician or journalist.
As Taplin observes, the fact that more and more Americans receive their news, as well as music.
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Back Bay Books este o amprentă a Little, Brown and Company, o editură deținută de Hachette Book Group.
Back Bay Books se concentrează în primul rând pe publicarea de ediții broșate ale cărților literare de ficțiune și non-ficțiune.
Amprenta este cunoscută pentru că lansează broșuri de înaltă calitate, atât cu titluri contemporane, cât și clasice, incluzând adesea lucrări care au fost publicate anterior pe copertă cartonată de Little, Brown și alte tipărituri din cadrul Hachette Book Group.
Back Bay Books își propune să facă literatura mai accesibilă pentru cititori, oferind ediții broșate la prețuri accesibile de romane, memorii, biografii și alte genuri apreciate.
Unii autori cunoscuți ale căror lucrări au fost publicate sub amprenta Back Bay Books includ, printre alții, Donna Tartt, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Sedaris, David Foster Wallace și Malcolm Gladwell.
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Back Bay Books Move fast and break things: how facebook, google, and amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy, paperback/jonathan taplin
