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Network Effects

An annotated collection of 1 books on network effects, spanning 1998. Featuring works by Carl Shapiro & Hal R. Varian — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

Carl Shapiro & Hal R. Varian, 1998 · Harvard Business School Press

Shapiro and Varian's book is the cleanest account of the economics that governs information goods — zero marginal cost, network effects, lock-in, switching costs, versioning, standards wars. Written in 1998, before the d…