Digital Renaissance : : What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture / / Joel Waldfogel.

How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries—and why that might be a good thingThe digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries—music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which digital files can be copied and distributed has un...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. The Creative Industries: RISKY, EXPENSIVE, AND WORTH PRESERVING
  • PART I: A Tour of some Major Cultural Industries: MUSIC, MOVIES, TELEVISION SHOWS, BOOKS, AND PHOTOGRAPHY
  • 2. Digitization in Music: ROCK ON?
  • 3.Digitization in Movies: HOLLYWOOD ENDING?
  • 4. Digitization in Television: HAS THE VAST WASTELAND BLOSSOMED?
  • 5. Digitization in Books: FIFTY SHADES OF DRECK?
  • 6. Digitization Further Afield: PHOTOGRAPHY, TRAVEL AGENTS, AND BEYOND
  • 7. The value of the digital Renaissance: THE LONG TAIL AND A WHOLE LOT MORE
  • PART II: Coming Attractions: FARM TEAM, BUNDLING, PIRATES, VIKInGS, AND TROLLS
  • 8. The digital Farm system, and the Promise of Bundling
  • 9. A Tale of Two Intellectual Property Regimes: LESSONS FROM HOLLYWOOD AND BOLLYWOOD
  • 10. Digitization, the French, and the Return of the vikings
  • 11. Bridge Trolls: THE POSSIBLE THREAT OF TECHNOLOGICAL GATEKEEPERS
  • 12. Crisis or Renaissance?
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX