With box office returns slumping, Waterman has produced a timely study of Tinseltown's development since the end of World War II.
   --Roy Liebman, Library Journal

[Hollywood's Road to Riches] provide[s] a thorough economic account of how American film studios and their predecessors have exploited our appetite for movies over the past 60-plus years.
   --David Ondaatje, Times Higher Education Supplement

No less artful are the inspired, often Byzantine economics that have sustained the film industry for more than a century, which prove a surprisingly engrossing topic in David Waterman's Hollywood's Road to Riches.
   --J. David Slocum, Playboy

Hollywood's Road to Riches focuses on the details and peculiarities of the film business with a depth and breadth that no one else provides. Combining knowledge of facts and institutions with insightful economic analyses makes the book exceptional.
   --Steven S. Wildman, Michigan State University

Hollywood's Road to Riches is informative, intelligent, and even entertaining.
   --Michael Riordan, Columbia University

David Waterman is Professor, Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University, Bloomington.