Steve Knopper, author of  "Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age" is a guest on NPR's Fresh Air today.  

I thought the topic would be of interest to the Audties crowd.  Here is a review of the book from the NY Times:

"[A] stark accounting of the mistakes major record labels have made since the end of the LP era and the arrival of digital music.... A wide-angled, morally complicated view of the current state of the music business.... [Knopper] suggests that with even a little foresight, record companies could have adapted to the Internet's brutish and quizzical new realities and thrived.... He paints a devastating picture of the industry's fumbling, corruption, greed and bad faith over the decades." -- The New York Times 

Cheers,
MCE