Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway - Hardcover

Auletta, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679457380 ISBN 13: 9780679457381

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1997

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The best-selling author of Greed and Glory journeys inside the high-tech world of electronic communications to introduce its top players--Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, Michael Eisner--their companies, ventures, and the future of the industry. 15,000 first printing.

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s taking place--not just among corporate titans, but among entire industries. At stake is control of the world's fastest-growing industry: communications. The contestants are Hollywood studios, television networks, and cable, telephone, computer, publishing, and consumer-electronics companies. All are vying to collect a toll on the information superhighway. And as they jockey for control, they tread on volatile ground, as one fixation after another (cable, interactive TV) is dumped in favor of the next (satellite, the Internet).

There is no better account of this turmoil than the one provided here by Ken Auletta, bestselling author of Three Blind Mice ("the best book ever written on network television"*) and Greed and Glory on Wall Street, who for five years has brilliantly tracked the communications industry for The New Yorker. Auletta's access to the principal players is unparalleled (six days with Rupert Murdoch, summit meetings with Jo

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679457380
• ISBN 13: 9780679457381
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 346