Digital renaissance: what data and economics tell us about the future of popular culture

The creative industries : risky, expensive, and worth preserving

Part I: A tour of some major cultural industries : music, movies, television shows, books, and photography. Digitization in music : rock on? ; Digitization in movies : Hollywood ending? ; Digitization in television : has the vast wasteland blossomed? ; Digitization in books : fifty shades of dreck? ; Digitization further afield : photography, travel agents, and beyond ; The value of the digital renaissance : the long tail and a whole lot more

Part II: Coming attractions : farm teams, bundling, pirates, vikings, and trolls. The digital farm system, and the promise of bundling ; A tale of two intellectual property regimes : lessons from Hollywood and Bollywood ; Digitization, the French, and the return of the Vikings ; Bridge trolls : the possible threat of technological gatekeepers ; Crisis or renaissance?