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Sony
[Under
Development]
Sony is the only Japanese consumer electronics giant that
has made a successful move into global content production
and distribution. The outstanding study is John Nathan's Sony:
The Private Life (Boston, Houghton Mifflin 99).
Simon Partner's Assembled In Japan: Electrical Goods
& The Making Of The Japanese Consumer (Berkeley,
Uni of California Press 99) is concentrates on the early
history, as does Bob Johnstone's We Were Burning:
Japanese Entrepreneurs & The Forging of the Electronic
Age (New York, Basic Books 99). Co-founder Akio
Morita's memoir Made In Japan: Akio Morita & Sony
(New York, NAL 97) is thin, as is Reiji Asakura's Revolutionaries
at Sony: The Making of the Sony Playstation & The
Visionaries Who Conquered the World of Video Games
(New York, McGraw Hill 00).
Norman Lebrecht's mordant When The Music Stops (New
York, Simon & Schuster 96) is an account of Sony's
move into music recording; particular strong on classical
music. Fredric Dannen's Hit Men: Power Brokers
& Fast Money Inside The Music Business (New York,
Vintage 91) is an acerbic expose of its adventures in the
contemporary music business.
Hit & Run: How Jon Peters & Peter Guber Took Sony
for A Ride In Hollywood (New York, Touchstone 97) is
an expose by Nancy Griffin of how the guys from Tokyo
handed over Columbia Pictures to Barbra Streisand's
hairdresser. David Geffen's profiled in Stephen Singular's
The Rise & Rise of David Geffen (New York,
Birch Lane 97) and Tom King's more substantial David
Geffen: A Biography Of New Hollywood (London,
Hutchinson 00).
Holdings
The following page
provides an inventory of Sony holdings.
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