Download! How The Internet Transformed The Record Business

“Industry expert Phil Hardy has outdone himself with the splendid, piecing Download!” – Record Collector

Download! chronicles of the making of the new record industry, from the boom years of the CD revolution of the late 1980s to the crisis of the present day, with particular stress on the last decade.

Following the actions and reactions of the major international record companies as they ploughed their way through the digital revolution, bewildered by the fleet-of-foot digital innovators who were far more responsive to the changing marketing conditions.

Download! delves even further into the structural change that has, almost surreptitiously, taken place, within the music business. A change that has left the captains of the record industry as unable to act as they were unwilling to act.