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the rise and fall of the record industry in the digital age

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An edition of Appetite for self-destruction (2009)

Appetite for self-destruction

the rise and fall of the record industry in the digital age

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Recounts for the first time the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world--and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, journalist Knopper shows that, after the wealth and excess of the '80s and '90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology. Based on interviews with more than two hundred music industry sources--from Warner Music chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. to renegade Napster creator Shawn Fanning--Knopper is the first to offer such a detailed and sweeping contemporary history of the industry's wild ride.

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Publisher
Free Press
Language
English
Pages
301

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Subjects

History, Compact disc industry, Music trade, Sound recording industry, Music and technology, Technological innovations
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Appetite for self-destruction: the rise and fall of the record industry in the digital age
2009, Free Press
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Appetite for self-destruction: the spectacular crash of the record industry in the digital age
2009, Simon & Schuster, Pgw
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Table of Contents

1983-1986 : "Jerry Shulman's Frisbee : how the compact disc saved the record business (for a while)"
1984-1999 : how big spenders got rich in the post-CD boom
1998-2001 : "The teen-pop bubble : boy bands and Britney make the business bigger than ever
but not for long"
1998-2001 : a 19-year-old takes down the industry
with the help of tiny music, and a few questionable big music decisions
2002-2003 : how Steve Jobs built the iPod, revived his company and took over the music business
2003-2007 : "Beating up on peer-to-peer services like Kazaa and Grokster fails to save the industry : sales plunge and Tommy Mottola abandons ship"
The future : how can the record labels return to the boom times? Hint : not by stonewalling new high-tech models and locking up the content.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
384
Library of Congress
ML3790 .K57 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
301

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OL22528278M
ISBN 10
1416552154
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9781416552154
LCCN
2008038739
OCLC/WorldCat
209699402
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7459914
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4805529

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OL13609156W

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In an engaging, fast-paced, up-close-and-personal narrative, 'Appetite for Self-Destruction' recounts the music industry's wild 30-year ride through the digital age. Based on interviews with over 200 music industry sources, Steve Knopper offers a contemporary history of the nuts and bolts of the industry.

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