@article{328644,
      author = {Knopper, Steve,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/328644},
      title = {Appetite for self-destruction : the spectacular crash of  the record industry in the digital age /},
      publisher = {Free Press,},
      abstract = {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.},
      recid = {328644},
      pages = {xvi, 301 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2009},
}