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24 alternatives to Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

Core read on the nature of information goods

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
What would google do?▲64
A guide to the business logic of the network era.
2016 · its alternatives →
2
Platform Revolution ▲79
How networked markets are transforming the economy
2016 · its alternatives →
3
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to▲66
Information, networks, complexity to understand Economics
2015 · its alternatives →
4
Soft Control: Leaks from an Information Broker▲61
A new book on surviving the knowledge economy
2016 · its alternatives →
5
Who Owns the Future?▲66
The concentration of money and power in our digital networks
2015 · its alternatives →
6
Computer Networks▲55
Ideal introduction to the networking field
2016 · its alternatives →
7
Digital Strategy▲65
A Guide to Digital Business Transformation
2016 · its alternatives →
8
Networks, Crowds, and Markets▲62
Applied mathematics to understand networks and behavior
2015 · its alternatives →
9
The Sovereign Individual▲77
Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
2016 · its alternatives →
10
Matchmakers▲61
The new economics of multisided platforms
2016 · its alternatives →
11
Content Strategy for the Web▲57
Better content means better business
2015 · its alternatives →
12
The Master Switch▲71
: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
2015 · its alternatives →
13
The Dark Net▲62
A revelatory examination of the internet
2015 · its alternatives →
14
The Keystone Advantage▲66
Probably the best book on platform-based business ecosystems
2015 · its alternatives →
15
Disrupting Digital Business▲111
Create an authentic experience in the peer-to-peer economy
2015 · its alternatives →
16
Social Physics▲63
What can data tell us about how ideas flow through networks?
2016 · its alternatives →
17
Does IT Matter?▲60
Information Technology & Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
2015 · its alternatives →
18
The Business of Sharing▲59
Making it in the new sharing economy
2016 · its alternatives →
19
The Art of Strategy▲68
A game theorist's guide to success in business and life
2015 · its alternatives →
20
The Misfit Economy▲68
Lessons in creativity from pirates & hackers
2015 · its alternatives →
21
Network marketing for Facebook▲60
Good tactical book for using social media
2015 · its alternatives →
22
The Thank You Economy▲89
How companies big and small can scale
2016 · its alternatives →
23
Reinventing Organizations▲77
A new kind of organization
2015 · its alternatives →
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Who Gets What - And Why▲62
The hidden world of matchmaking and market design
2015 · its alternatives →

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