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Appetite for self-destruction : the spectacular crash of the record industry in the digital age / Steve Knopper.

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New York : Free Press, 2009.

9781416552154 (hc.)

1416552154 (hc.)

9781593762698 (pbk.)

xvi, 301 p. ; 24 cm.

Prologue, 1979-1982. Disco crashes the record business, Michael Jackson saves the day, and MTV really saves the day -- 1983-1986 : Jerry Shulman's Frisbee : how the compact disc saved the record business (for a while) -- 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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