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

" Very well researched and with a great narrative. It really shows the whole ship going down. "

" I read part of this book to support a paper I had to write for school. The paper was about selling music on-line, and this book has some good information about the major record labels disdain for the idea of selling music on-line instead of in the format of a CD. I decided to finish reading the book to get a full picture of what the author was describing, and I found the whole story fairly interesting. It is sort of amusing how people who a wonderfully successful at something can get stuck in a position and have no way to get themselves on to a new idea. "

" Provides a compelling argument that, every time a technological advancement came forward, the record industry did what it could to kill or ignore it. I knew that they shot themselves in the foot with the transition to digital, but it seems they were unaware of the gun. And maybe the foot too. "

" An interesting journey through the record industry's arrogant missteps as they tried to both maintain the status quo, milk the fat profits of the CD-ROM revolution, and get completely blindsided by peer-to-peer file sharing. The book itself is well-researched but lacks an overall cohesiveness, tending to bounce among topics e.g music genres, studios and their respective executives, payola, recording artists (a lot on 'Boy Bands') and so on while still attempting to follow a general time line. To the author's credit, a lot of the material was gleaned through sources other than direct interviews. Not many were willing to grant interviews. And those that did grant interviews tended to recall events in that indulged their egos... "

" I was born in 1976, and my older brother started DJing in 1983. It was fun, and frustrating, to read about everything that affected music during this crazy Disco to Digital era. "

" This book has a ton of great historical information on the record industry and how it evolved into the CD Age and collapsed with the digital piracy and major label greed. Very dry. It did not hold my attention well. This is what happens when you read a lot of true crime and mystery/suspense novels. "

" Very interesting. I learned a lot of surprising facts about music in our digital age. Plus it is a well-told story that held my attention. "

" Chronicles all the really stupid things the recording industry started doing beginning with the disco era, which is coincidentally around the same time that I started losing interest in the music scene. "

" I more skimmed this book than read it. A lot of gossip about all of the players involved. And I just don't care about Tommy Mottola and Mariah Carey. Some chapters were interesting, but I thought this would focus more on the future of the record industry. "

" Super sad - but that's what you get when you refuse to change... "

" This book confirms that while the major record labels are dying a fast death in the digital age, the music business can thrive. "

" A quick and highly informative read -- I especially found the latter half useful for sorting though the falling rubble of what was the record business. "

" Excellent overview of how the record industry spectacularly failed to deal with the internet download phenomenon, and ultimately let Steve Jobs pick up their ball and run with it. "

" A good analysis of the failings of the modern record industry, but unfortunately, we're in such a huge time of flux that the book would need to be updated every 6 months in order to remain current. An excellent candidate for an auto-updating e-book. "

" Finally getting to this... "

" Great read for anyone connected to the music industry. "

" Interesting read about the reluctance of the record industry to adapt to the changing digital realities of the past three decades. "

" Great overview. Would be interesting to get a new edition canvassing the emergence of Spotify/Pandora etc etc. (Was written in 2009). "