Appetite for self-destruction : the spectacular crash of the record industry in the digital age / Steve Knopper.
Knopper, Steve, 1969-
2009
ML3790 .K57 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Appetite for self-destruction : the spectacular crash of the record industry in the digital age / Steve Knopper.
Author Knopper, Steve, 1969-
ISBN 9781416552154
1416552154
Imprint New York : Free Press, c2009.
Language English
Description xvi, 301 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number ML3790 .K57 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 384
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-280) and index.
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1983-1986 : Jerry Shulman's Frisbee : how the compact disc rebuilt the record business
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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