[78-L] "Appetite for Self-Destruction" reviewed^

[David Lennick]

Just as I'm sure there are 50 books out there telling how the recession began, 
even if nobody can afford them (and while we're at it, I wonder how many people 
bought the $20,000 all-inclusive Inauguration packages?).

Recession--is when your neighbor loses his job.
Depression--is when you lose your job.
Panic--is when your WIFE loses her job.

dl

David Jessup wrote:
> Fascinating how several books will appear on the same subject at (nearly) the same time. But from the same publishing conglomerate...?
> 
> Forthcoming in May '09 (and an advance reader in my hands now, as I'm a bookstore manager) is...
> 
> "Ripped: How The Wired Generation Revolutionized Music" - by Greg Kot; a Scribner hardcover. (Free Press, below, is an imprint distributed by Simon and Schuster, like Scribner.)
> 
> With chapters like "Payola Blues," "'George Bush Doesn't Like Black People'," "Steve Jobs And The iPod 'Burglary Kit'," "'Steal, Steal, And Steal Some More'"... who could resist? 
> 
> So far this one's a fast & fun read - but sounds an awful lot like the tome reviewed by Garner (as brought to our notice by Dave W).
> 
> All best - Dave Jessup
> 
> Previously, on 78-L:
> 
> Message: 15
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:10:44 -0500
> From: "David Weiner" 
> Subject: [78-L] "Appetite for Self-Destruction" reviewed
> To: "'78-L Mail List'" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>  
> When Labels Fought the Digital, and the Digital Won 
>  
> "Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry
> in the Digital Age." By Steve Knopper. 301 pages. Free Press. $26. 
>  
> by Dwight Garner
> New York Times, January 7, 2009
>  
> "You can't roll a joint on an iPod," the singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne told
> The New York Times Magazine early last year. And, O.K., I suppose that's
> among the iPod's drawbacks. But it's hard to think of an electronic device
> released in recent decades that's brought more pleasure to more people.
> (snip)
> 
>