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24 alternatives to How Music Got Free

The End of an Industry

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. How Music Got Free launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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How Music Got Free▲67
The end of an industry and the patient zero of piracy
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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How Music Got Free▲4
The End of an Industry and Patient Zero of Piracy
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
FREE: The Future of a radical Price▲77
How businesses can profit more by giving things away.
2015 · audible.com · its alternatives →
4
How We Listen Now▲63
Essays and conversations about music and technology
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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How Music Got Free▲5
An irresistible story of greed, cunning, genius and deceit
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The End of Jobs▲98
Money, meaning and freedom without the 9-to-5
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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This Business of Music▲62
The music business Bible
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Cheap▲95
The high cost of discount culture
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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How Music Works by David Byrne▲61
The joy, physics and business of making music
2015 · its alternatives →
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Decoded▲62
The science behind why we buy
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Public Parts▲83
How sharing in the digital age improves the way we work
2015 · audible.com · its alternatives →
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The End of Money▲84
The coming cashless society
2015 · audible.com · its alternatives →
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Free Music Archive▲101
Interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads
2015 · freemusicarchive.org · its alternatives →
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The Thank You Economy▲89
How companies big and small can scale
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
Ableton: Making Music▲124
A book of creative strategies for electronic music producers
2015 · makingmusic.ableton.com · its alternatives →
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The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory▲16
A history of how music is made
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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#MusicTech▲69
Data science, music discovery, and lots of fun use-cases!
2015 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
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Who Gets What - And Why▲62
The hidden world of matchmaking and market design
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Misfit Economy▲68
Lessons in creativity from pirates & hackers
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Business of Sharing▲59
Making it in the new sharing economy
2016 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
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The Song Machine▲105
There's a reason hit songs offer guilty pleasure
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Scarcity▲71
Why having too little means so much
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Frugal Innovation (AMA Today at 3PM)▲147
How to do more with less
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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How Music Works▲6
Updated with a new section on digital curation
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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