Appetite for Self-Destruction by Steve Knopper

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

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


A quite nice discussion of the imploding record industry (as opposed to the music industry). Full of color and bombastic personality, as appropriate. Unfortunately, I’m the sort of person whose opinion on a book can be irrevocably ruined by details. To wit, a note about how, when initially launched, iTunes took 22 cents out of every 99 cent song purchase for itself, leaving 67 cents to be divided among the various rights holders.



. . . uh . . .



I hope everyone from the author to the copyeditor has a hard time looking themselves in the mirror, is what I’m saying.



The book did introduce me to the fascinating and elusive – no really,, someone is babysitting that Wikipedia page and doing a fine job of it -- Clive Calder. I would have read about him all damn day, to hell with the rest of those clowns.





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