{"product_id":"9780525426615","title":"How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2016 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize, the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the 2015 \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and McKinsey Business Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eBillboard\u003c\/i\u003e’s 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eEditors’ Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post • \u003cb\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/b\u003e • \u003cb\u003eSlate\u003c\/b\u003e • \u003cb\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/b\u003e • \u003cb\u003eTime\u003c\/b\u003e • \u003cb\u003eForbes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eHow Music Got Free\u003c\/i\u003e] has the clear writing and brisk reportorial acumen of a Michael Lewis book.”—Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Music Got Free\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJournalist 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn irresistible never-before-told story of greed, cunning, genius, and deceit, \u003ci\u003eHow Music Got Free\u003c\/i\u003e isn’t just a story of the music industry—it’s a must-read history of the Internet itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025961631984,"sku":"9780525426615","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780525426615_p0.jpg?v=1763710774","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780525426615","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}