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

Title:

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

Author:

Knopper, Steve, 1969-

Published:

New York : c2009.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emerson College

Contents:

1983-1986 : Jerry Shulman's Frisbee : how the compact disc rebuilt the record business -- 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.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Emerson Main Stacks
ML3790 .K57 2009 – Available

• Available Temporarily at Emerson Reserve
  On reserve for MB371 -0: Marketing Music in Digital Age (Business: Bonner-Desravines)