Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Rise and Fall of the Record Industry in the Digital Age – Steve Knopper
In Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Rise and Fall of the Record Industry in the Digital Age freelance music writer Steve Knopper shows how the recording industry made one bad decision after another when dealing with the digital tide.
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 to renegade Napster creator Shawn Fanning-as well as assiduous research in legal documents, unpublished memoirs, Billboard reports, and so on, Steve Knopper, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, offers a contemporary history of big music that is more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.
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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.
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