Appetite for Self-Destruction The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age

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ISBN: 9781593762698 | 1593762690
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Copyright: 12/15/2009

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The music industry's mighty players have been asleep at the wheel since Napster revolutionized the way music was distributed in the 1990s. A veteran industry reporter tells of the current state of big music, how it got into such dire straits, and where it's going.

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Cast of Characters	p. xi
Prologue 1979-1982: Disco Crashes the Record Business, Michael Jackson Saves the Day, and MTV Really Saves the Day	p. 1
1983-1986: Jerry Shulman's Frisbee: How the Compact Disc Rebuilt the Record Business	p. 15
Big Music's Big Mistakes, Part 1: The CD Longbox	p. 36
1984-1999: How Big Spenders Got Rich in the Post-CD Boom	p. 40
Big Music's Big Mistakes, Part 2: Independent Radio Promotion	p. 66
Big Music's Big Mistakes, Part 3: Digital Audio Tape	p. 75
1998-2001: The Teen Pop Bubble: Boy Bands and Britney Make the Business Bigger Than Ever-But Not for Long	p. 80
Big Music's Big Mistakes, Part 4: Killing the Single	p. 105
Big Music's Big Mistakes, Part 5: Pumping Up the Big Boxes	p. 108
1998-2001: A Nineteen-Year-Old Takes Down the Industry-with the Help of Tiny Music, and a Few Questionable Big Music Decisions	p. 113
Big Music's Big Mistakes, Part 6: The Secure Digital Music Initiative	p. 150
2002-2003: How Steve Jobs Built the iPod, Revived His Company, and Took Over the Music Business	p. 157
Big Music's Big Mistakes, Part 7: The RIAA Lawsuits	p. 183
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	p. 190
Big Music's Big Mistakes, Part 8: Sony BMG's Rootkit	p. 222
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	p. 229
Notes	p. 253
Acknowledgments	p. 281
Index	p. 285
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Appetite for Self-Destruction The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age

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