Ticket Masters
The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · April 24, 2012
“A clear, comprehensive look at a murky business.” —The Wall Street Journal Your favorite band has just announced their nationwide tour.
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- Who it’s for
- Follow the money—and the industry history—behind the concert ticket in your hand.
- Genres
- The Music Business, Entertainment Industry, Music History
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, April 24, 2012
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“A clear, comprehensive look at a murky business.” —The Wall Street Journal Your favorite band has just announced their nationwide tour. Should you pay to join their fan club and get in on the pre-sale? No, you decide to wait. But the on-sale date arrives, and the site is jammed. You can’t get on—and the concert is sold out in six minutes. What happened? What now?
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Music journalists Dean Budnick and Josh Baron chronicle the behind-the-scenes history of the modern concert industry. Filled with entertaining rock-and-roll anecdotes about The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam, and more—and charting the emergence of players like Ticketmaster, StubHub, Live Nation, and Outbox—Ticket Masters will transfix every concertgoer who wonders just where the price of admission really goes. This edition has an updated epilogue that covers recent industry developments.
Behind the Ticket
Follow the money—and the industry history—behind the concert ticket in your hand.
Come here for
- The tangled business behind concert tickets and tour sales
- Rock anecdotes alongside the rise of major ticketing players
Expect
- A clear-eyed look at a murky business
- An updated epilogue on recent industry developments
Where it sits
| The Music Business | 84% |
|---|---|
| Entertainment Industry | 63% |
| Music History | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Entertainment Industry
- The Music Business
- Music History
- Authors
- Dean Budnick, Josh Baron
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- April 24, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Entertainment Industry