Bamboozled at the Revolution: How Big Media Lost Billions in the Battle for the Internet

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Summary: wonderful, well written book
Review: charming book, Motavalli can turn a phrase

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Summary: Jumping the Gun?
Review: Indeed, it is a well written book with excellent first hand accounts from the inside of the media giants during their flailings.

The book rightfully focuses on Time Warner's role in this and does a fair job of covering the other giants. Keep in mind too, this is not a book about the "dot com bust". It is about the media giant's inability to find a viable online role.

Is it maybe jumping the gun in some of it's conclusions? Particularly in regards to AOLTW? You'll have to read it and decide.

I think the book is a little unfair in one respect. While it accurately chronicals the media giants shortsightedness and sometimes incompetence in dealing with the online world. To me the one glaring omission from the book is the fact that it wasn't just big media who's lost billions in the battle for the internet, and in fact...the war may not be won. That's never really acknowledged and in fact with some of the final summations on AOLTW...the author may be jumping the gun.

Still, if you are at all interested in the "Big Media" the book does an excellent job of covering ALL the big media. Cable, broadcast, news/wire services, publishing (magazine and newspaper), recording industry. Nothing is left out. That's for sure.