{"product_id":"the-master-switch-tim-wu-9780307390998","title":"The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFortune \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A must-read for all Americans who want to remain the ones deciding what they can read, watch, and listen to.\" --Arianna Huffington\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnalyzing the strategic maneuvers of today's great information powers--Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT\u0026amp;T--Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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 monopolist or cartel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this pathbreaking book, Tim Wu asks: will the Internet follow the same fate? Could the Web--the entire flow of American information--come to be ruled by a corporate leviathan in possession of \"the master switch\"? Here, Tim Wu shows how a battle royale for the Internet's future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Wu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0307390993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307390998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.23h x 5.25w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2012 pg. 20","brand":"Tim Wu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048479224063,"sku":"9780307390998","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0276c46e-0cfa-455f-b2ba-08e7ad2ef7e3.jpg?v=1684996001","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-master-switch-tim-wu-9780307390998","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}