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Author:   Philip E. Meza
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford Business Books,US
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9780804756600

ISBN 10:   0804756600
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   20 March 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments xxx @toc2:1. Introduction 1 @toc3:Complements in Competitors' Clothing 000 The Nature of Information 000 Overview of the Bumpy Road to Prosperity 000 The Plan of This Book 000 Why Today's Threats and Opportunities Are So Profound 000 Conclusion 000 @toc2:2. Innovation 000 @toc3: Surfing the Hertzian Wave: The Early History of Radio 000 Marconi (and Only Marconi) Calling 000 Voices in the Air 000 Voices Carry: The Early History of the Recording Industry 000 Lights, Camera, Oligopoly: History of the Film Industry 000 There's Something On: History of the Television Industry 000 E Unum Pluribus?: History of Filesharing 000 Conclusion 000 @toc2:3. Ascension 000 @toc3:Tuning In to Network Effects 000 More Than Wireless Telegraphy: Radio Becomes an Industry 000 Making Money with Radio 000 Jockeying the Discs: Records Become Popular 000 Your Best Entertainment: Movies Become Big Business 000 Then There Were Three: The Television Industry 000 It's Good To Share? The Emergence of Peer-to-Peer Services 000 Conclusion 000 @toc2:4. Fear 000 @toc3:The Sonny Bono Law: I Got You Babe for Another Twenty Years 000 The Law Needn't Be an Ass: A Positive Role for Legislation 000 For Home Use Only: The Battle Between Radio and Music 000 Big Screen Versus Small: The Studio System Joins Together Against Television 000 The Boston Strangler? Movie Studios and Television Fear the VCR 000 Refusing to Face the Music: Disrupting the Record Companies 000 Conclusion 000 @toc2:5. Prosperity 000 @toc3:Gold Records: The Golden Age of Radio--for Recording Companies 000 Television Saves the Studios 000 Videos and VCRs: A Cash Machine for Studios 000 Happier Bedfellows: Content-Technology Cooperation 000 The Music Industry Post-Napster 000 Conclusion 000 @toc2:6. Conclusion 000 @toc3:Where The Money Will Be: The Power of Complements and the Risks of Collision 000 Convergence or Collision? 000 Honey, I Shrunk the Value Proposition 000 Let's Get Horizontal 000 Linking to Prosperity: The 2 Percent Solution 000 Rules for Success: Company-Level View 000 Rules for Success: Industry-Level View 000 Conclusion 000 @toc4:Appendix A: The Forces Shaping the Future of Entertainment 000 Appendix B: Tools of Resistance: Patents and Copyrights 000 Notes 000 Index 000

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[Meza] provides a solid set of vignettes of major milestones in communications and storage technologies, as well as failures and successes in using the technologies. Stories of adaptability, shortsightedness, and hubris of decision makers provide lessons for any manager coping with new technologies and media... Anyone interested in understanding the evolution of the convergence of technology and media and its current state will find this book useful. -CHOICE California libraries both business and public will find Coming Attractions? an outstanding, specific survey key to understanding long-standing issues, conflicts, and relationships between entertainment, high tech and media industries alike. -Midwest Book Review This book forcefully instructs media and tech companies to accept the shotgun wedding imposed by digitization, and profit from the long honeymoon of convergence. Using both historical and strategic analysis deftly, Philip Meza shows how Hollywood and Silicon Valley can reason together. His examples are Oscar-worthy and his rules as logical as a microprocessor's architecture: companies and their shareholders ignore these lessons at their peril. -Reed E. Hundt, author of In China's Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship (2006), member of the board of Intel Corporation, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Coming Attractions is essential reading-it reveals the underlying naivete of those who should have known better, outlines the brilliant manipulation of the hi-tech companies and champions the individuals and organisations who recognised exactly the shape of things to come. -Learning, Media and Technology Review

[Meza] provides a solid set of vignettes of major milestones in communications and storage technologies, as well as failures and successes in using the technologies. Stories of adaptability, shortsightedness, and hubris of decision makers provide lessons for any manager coping with new technologies and media... Anyone interested in understanding the evolution of the convergence of technology and media and its current state will find this book useful. -- CHOICE

Coming Attractions is essential reading--it reveals the underlying naivete of those who should have known better, outlines the brilliant manipulation of the hi-tech companies and champions the individuals and organisations who recognised exactly th

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Philip E. Meza is a research associate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition, he consults in strategy and has worked with firms including Bain & Company and his own clients in a variety of industries in the United States, Australia, and South Africa. He is the coauthor of Strategic Dynamics: Concepts and Cases (2005)

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