Playing for Profit: How Digital Entertainment Is Making Big Business out of Child's Play

A little over a century ago, an intense explosion of technical innovation transformed the way we spent our leisure time. Inventions like the phonograph, television, radio, and motion pictures sparked a revolution in entertainment that captured the hearts—and the wallets—of the average consumer. In recent years, we've seen some improvements on these feats: LPs disappeared and made room for CDs, movies were augmented by computer-generated special effects, and video games became a staple for h...