Reviews

The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution by Dave Kusek, Gerd Leonhard

edythemighty's review

4.0

This book served to predict some of the things that would happen in the coming years, but it was also off on many things. It tied past, (then) present and brilliant ideas for the future of music distribution together...but you had to read through some boring chapters to get to it. Good for the parent who doesn't quite get what you're all about (Parents just don't understand!) but for younger generations who are growing up overloaded with these same messages on the internet...

dav's review

3.0

Quite dated now (this was pre-iPhone) but a thorough analysis of how the maelstrom of the consumer internet era slammed into a willfully unsuspecting world of Big Music. Many of the predictions have indeed come to pass, which underscores the quality of analysis and vision. I would have preferred a less opinionated style, but hard to argue with the authors' points of view even if they stretch things a bit in occasion.