Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers Free Audiobook Download by James Andrew Miller

'Tinderbox' is a nonfiction book, written by James Miller, who is an American writer and producer. In the book, James talks about HBO's disastrous attempt to launch an online streaming service, which failed to live up to the hype. The reason they did not succeed was that they made too many assumptions about how their consumers would react. To make matters worse, HBO was not flexible in their thinking and this led to them only focusing on one type of show that appealed to just one demographic - which lead them down the wrong path.

In Tinderbox, James Andrew Miller chronicles HBO's 25-year journey from a regional cable network to the largest and most profitable pay TV network in the United States. The book is engaging, informative and most importantly well-written.

James Andrew Miller's book, Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers, is an insider's account of how HBO has transformed itself from a cable network into the fastest growing and most profitable content creator in the history of television. Told through interviews with those who were there and definitive reports on what happened to HBO over the years, Miller's story seems almost too good to be true.

James Andrew Miller, a former journalist and founder of the Hollywood Reporter, was given unprecedented access to HBO's creative process in the summer of 2017 when he published his book "Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers." The book chronicles how HBO CEO Richard Plepler and company President Casey Bloys fought for more than a decade to establish their dominance in an industry that had previously been dominated by Time Warner.

The film is a damning critique of HBO's idea to turn itself into a "network for the future" by funding and producing shows about "the next generation". The book is set in the present, at a time when HBO has removed its traditional programming line-up and replaced it with series like Game of Thrones, Veep and Girls.