The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
- ISBN-10
- 0804170045
- ISBN-13
- 9780804170048
- Series
- The Attention Merchants
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 413
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Tim Wu
Description
"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2016."-- Title page verso.
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- 2017-01-05
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