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Since 2001, newspaper, music, publishing, film, and television revenues have fallen dramatically, while profits at these industries’ three biggest access points—Facebook, Amazon, and Google—have skyrocketed. More creative content is being consumed than ever before, but less revenue is flowing to the creators and owners of the content.

Move Fast and Break Things, a new book by media and entertainment expertÌýJonathan Taplin, tells the story of how a small group of entrepreneurs began in the 1990s to seize the original decentralized vision of the Internet, creating a concentration of power that now determines the future of culture. But the stakes go far beyond any one artist or journalist: as a shrinking group of companies become the source of news and entertainment for more and more Americans, their status as cultural arbiters—and their impact on democracy—continues to grow.

´³´Ç¾±²ÔÌý¹ú²úÊÓƵ NYC at CORE: clubÌýfor the launch event ofÌýMove Fast and Break Things, featuring aÌýconversation withÌýJonathan TaplinÌýandÌýJeffrey ToobinÌýon the twentieth-century World Wide Web, the internet economy, and the impact they’re having on the promise of American life.

PARTICIPANTS

Jonathan TaplinÌý
Director Emeritus, Annenberg Innovation Lab, University of Southern California
Former tour manager, Bob Dylan and The Band
Author,ÌýMove Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

Jeffrey ToobinÌý
Staff writer,ÌýThe New Yorker
Senior Legal Analyst, CNN
Author,ÌýAmerican Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

Copies of Jonathan Taplin’sÌýÌýwill be available for purchase.Ìý

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