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2019 selection · Nonfiction
Spotify Teardown: Inside The Black Box Of Streaming Music
Spotify Teardown: Inside The Black Box Of Streaming Music by Maria Eriksson, Rasmus Fleischer, Anna Johansson, Pelle Snickars, Patrick Vonderau appears in NPR’s 2019 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, for music lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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