Appetite for Self-Destruction : : the Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital age
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Free Press, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: xvi, 301 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781416552154
1416552154
SUBJECTS
Music trade -- History.
Sound recording industry -- History.
Compact disc industry -- History.