It’s catalogue season and the latest to arrive at Enlightenment Towers is the Fall catalogue for MIT Press. There are some intriguing-looking books ahead. [amazon_link id=”0262034794″ target=”_blank” ]Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment[/amazon_link] by Michael Smith and Rahul Telang will be one for anybody interested in viable business models in the entertainment industry – it promises big data techniques for finding out what viewers will pay for. Eric von Hippel’s [amazon_link id=”0262035219″ target=”_blank” ]Free Innovation[/amazon_link] is about how to enhance the social benefits of all the work done for free eg open source software.

[amazon_image id=”0262034794″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment[/amazon_image]  [amazon_image id=”0262035219″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Free Innovation[/amazon_image]

[amazon_link id=”0262035014″ target=”_blank” ]The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy[/amazon_link] by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz looks fascinating. I’ve always been intrigued by the social aspects of concepts of property (when I go to a restaurant I know I’m buying the food but not the plate) and clearly digital delivery of intangible versions of goods such as books and even physical delivery of tractors with software in them means these social norms are in flux.

[amazon_image id=”0262035014″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy (The Information Society Series)[/amazon_image]

Among the non-econ/business titles, [amazon_link id=”0262529343″ target=”_blank” ]Information[/amazon_link] edited by Sarah Cook looks interesting – an “art-historical reassessment of information-based art in relation to data structure and exhibition curation.” I don’t understand that but the sound of an art-historical perspective on something tech and economics people talk about so much sounds promising.

[amazon_image id=”0262529343″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Information (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)[/amazon_image]