Compact Disc

by Robert Barry

Book Overview

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The story of the compact disc is also the story of the end of physical media. It is the story of how the quest for perfection laid the grounds for the death of a great industry. For in the passage from analogue media, like records and tapes, to digital formats, like CDs, something changed in the nature of media and in the relationship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501348515
• ISBN13: 9781501348518
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 6.4"