Appetite for Self-Destruction by Steve Knopper

Appetite for Self-Destruction by Steve Knopper

For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world - and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a comprehensive, fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper shows that, after the incredible wealth and excess of the '80s and '90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology. Based on interviews with more than two hundred music industry sources - from Warner Music chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. to renegade Napster creator Shawn Fanning - Knopper is the first to offer such a detailed and sweeping contemporary history of the industry's wild ride through the past three decades. From the birth of the compact disc, 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 boardrooms, 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.

Steve Knopper is a Rolling Stone contributing editor and a experienced music reporter who has written for publications such as the New York Times Magazine, GQ, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Details, and others. Appetite for Self-Destruction is his first book. Steve is a resident of Denver, Colorado.

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ISBN 13	9781416552154
ISBN 10	1416552154
Title	Appetite for Self-Destruction
Author	Steve Knopper
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Other book format
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2009-01-06
Number of pages	320
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