Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music
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"Ripped" tells the story of how the laptop generation created a new grassroots music industry, with the fans and bands rather than the corporations in charge. In this new world, bands aren't just musicmakers but self-contained multimedia businesses; and fans aren't just consumers but distributors and even collaborators.
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There wasn't any information here that I hadn't already known or experienced, having worked at a record store in that time. But the book is well written and it was nice to have the overview and history of the shift to digital music in one place. The book focused mainly on the artist/label relationship and I would have liked to hear more from music producers and engineers about how their role changed and how they adapted their techniques and studios during this time.