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Perfect Thing - How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness (Paperback) Loot Price: R484
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Perfect Thing - How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness (Paperback): Steven Levy

Perfect Thing - How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness (Paperback)

Steven Levy

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The iPod has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a new vocabulary (we shuffle our iTunes on our nanos), revolutionizing the way we experience music and radio through the invention of podcasting, opening up new outlets for video, and challenging the traditional music industry as never before. The design itself has become iconic: there is even a shade of white now called iPod White.

Steven Levy has had rare access to everyone at Apple who was involved in creating the iPod -- including Steve Jobs, Apple's charismatic cofounder and CEO, whom he has known for over twenty years. In telling the story behind the iPod, Levy explains how it went from the drawing board to global sensation. He also examines how this deceptively diminutive gadget raises a host of new technical, legal, social, and musical questions (including the all-important use of one's playlist as an indicator of coolness), and writes about where the iPhenomenon might go next in his new Afterword. Sharp and insightful, "The Perfect Thing" is part history and part homage to the device that we can't live without.

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Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2007
First published: September 2007
Authors: Steven Levy
Dimensions: 213 x 146 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-8523-0
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
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LSN: 0-7432-8523-9
Barcode: 9780743285230

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