Wow! These books are usually more tedious, with pages of technical specifications and statistics. This one feels like a thriller, following three key players into the mp3/piracy/music business mess that we've seen since music and computers have become so intertwined. Anyone interested in the topic should pick this up as the author's passion and research keep it moving. It's so engaging I wondered how much embellishment was put onto the facts, as normally this topic doesn't beget page-turners. You might be disappointed to find many important events glossed over or the reader is assumed to know about them, for example Napster is only given a few pages of mention. I guess if the author tried to cover all the angles on his subject then the book would be thousands of pages long, so he focuses on three important ones.
I'd put this alongside [b:How Music Works|13235689|How Music Works|David Byrne|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1340792878s/13235689.jpg|18433052] if you are looking for books that go a long way towards describing the confusing current state of music in a readable way.