Barfe, Louis. Where Have All the Good Times Gone?: The Rise and Fall of the Recording Industry. London: Atlantic, 2004. ISBN 1843540657.
Burkart, Patrick, and Tom McCourt. Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox. Critical Media Studies. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. ISBN 0742536688.
Coleman, Mark. Playback: From the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money. New York: Da Capo, 2003. ISBN 0306809842.
Hull, Geoffrey P. The Recording Industry. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2004. ISBN 041596802X. See in particular chapter 11, ``The Recording Industry and the Internet.''
Katz, Mark. Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. ISBN 0520241967.
Kusek, David, and Gerd Leonhard. The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution. Edited by Susan Gedutis Lindsay. Boston: Berklee Press, 2005. ISBN 0876390599.