My brother in law was a buyer for Tower. They weren't blindsided, they knew it was coming. The record labels at first refused to license music to them for digit

My brother in law was a buyer for Tower. They weren't blindsided, they knew it was coming. The record labels at first refused to license music to them for digital distribution, then later insisted on onerous terms. Tower missed out on digital because of the record labels. It took Steve Jobs' force of personality to knock sense into the labels.