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Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age (Paperback)
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Short Description for Appetite for Self-DestructionAn utterly engaging, up-close-and-personal narrative that tells the epic story of how the digital age brought the music industry to its knees.
Full description- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Published: 01 June 2009
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
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- Categories: Music Recording & Reproduction | Music Industry
- ISBN 13: 9781847371362 ISBN 10: 1847371361
- Sales rank: 113,332
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Full description for Appetite for Self-Destruction
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-from Warner Music chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. to renegade Napster creator Shawn Fanning-as well as assiduous research in legal documents, unpublished memoirs, Billboard reports, and so on, Steve Knopper, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, offers a contemporary history of big music that is more comprehensive and entertaining than any other book out there. From the birth of the compact disk, through the explosion of CD sales in the 80s and 90s, the emergence of Napster, and the secret talks that led to ITunes, to the current collapse of the industry as CD sales plummet, Knopper takes us inside the board rooms, recording studios, private estates, garage computer labs, company jets, corporate infighting, and secret deals of the big names and behind-the-scenes players who made it all happen.
