How Music Got Free

Hey, you! Yes, you--with the earbuds. Want to know how your music got to you? And why it costs so little? Download this audiobook and listen. It's a fascinating story of the criminals--um, forward thinkers-- who took down the record companies by pirating music and giving it away for free. Then they got busted. No worries though--you're legal. Anyway, you'd think that a book that explains such an earth-shattering economic change could get some professional narration. Author Stephen Witt does what author-narrators do best, and that's to bring passion and unassailable subject knowledge to their performances. But Witt also brings the word-dropping, uneven pacing, and too-fast reading pitfalls that new narrators exhibit. He improves as the book moves along, and it's still worth a listen, but a more experienced storyteller would have been a better choice. R.I.G. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine