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By: Tim Wu
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Vintage: November 2011
Seller ID: 301399
ISBN: 0307390993
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - VeryGood
A New Yorker and Fortune Best Book of the Year
Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today's great information powers-Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T-Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry-from the telephone to radio to film-once existed in an open and chaotic marketplace inhabited by entrepreneurs and utopians, just as the Internet does today. Each of these, however, grew to be dominated by a m...