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This review is for the digital edition of this book only.

I normally frown on reviews that focus on something besides the actual contents of the book, but here's the thing: This is a book about the GREED of the music industry and how it led to its downfall. So I would think the publishers of this book (Simon and Schuster Digital Sales), would have taken a lesson from it. Instead, they priced the digital edition of this book at nealry 60% MORE than the NEW PAPERBACK PRICE.

What? Why? There are no physical printing costs. There are no storage costs. Yet for some reason the publisher prices this ebook edition at $17.99 (as of this writing), while Amazon is selling the new, in-print paperback edition at $11.53. (Even the list price of the paperback is a dollar less than the digital price!)

Honestly, I would have bought this book if it were priced at or below the new paperback price. But it's not happening now, Simon and Schuster. Sorry.

Someday, someone will write a similarly-themed book about the book publishing business. What it will be called, I don't know, but mark my words, in ten years people will look back and examine what it was that killed book publishing, and the verdict will the same as it was for the music industry: GREED.Get more detail about Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age.