Move Fast and Break Things · How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
- Authors
- Taplin, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Tags
- business , computers , electronic commerce (see also headings under business & economics , e- , politics , business & economics , e-commerce , general (see also computers , electronic commerce) , computers , internet , general
- ISBN
- 9780316275743
- Date
- 2017-04-18T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.65 MB
- Lang
- en
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A *New York Times* Book Review Editors' Choice** **An Amazon Best Business 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 YouTube 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 and other forms of entertainment, from a small group of companies poses a real threat to democracy. *Move Fast and Break Things* offers a vital, forward-thinking prescription for how artists can reclaim their audiences using knowledge of the past and a determination to work together. Using his own half-century career as a music and film producer and early pioneer of streaming video online, Taplin offers new ways to think about the design of the World Wide Web and specifically the way we live with the firms that dominate it.