9 best-selling technology books like Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith

Cover of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith

Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

By: Ben Smith

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, J…

If you liked the technology plot in Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher

1. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

Similar categories in Kara Swisher's Burn Book: A Tech Love Story book and Ben Smith's Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

  • audiobook
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud by Ben McKenzie

2. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

By: Ben McKenzie

None

Format: None pages, None

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more

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Cover of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

3. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

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  • history
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar

4. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael   Lewis

5. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • history
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

6. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter by Zoë Schiffer

7. Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

By: Zoë Schiffer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“the bird is freed” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 When Elon Musk took over Twitter, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social media
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy by James B. Stewart

8. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy

By: James B. Stewart

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibilli… read more

Similar categories in James B. Stewart's Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy book and Ben Smith's Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind by Ben Terris

9. The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind

By: Ben Terris

3.74

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

"No one gets today's Washington like Ben Terris…THE BIG BREAK is the definitive accounting of ‘how … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz

10. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

By: Taylor Lorenz

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more

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  • audiobook
  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social media
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

11. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Chayka's Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture book and Ben Smith's Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

  • audiobook
  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History by Ben Mezrich

12. Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

By: Ben Mezrich

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From  New York Times  bestselling author Ben the book Elon Musk doesn’t want you to read. BREAKIN… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social media
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism by Adam  Nagourney

13. The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism

By: Adam Nagourney

4.22

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The … read more

Similar categories in Adam Nagourney's The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism book and Ben Smith's Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith

14. Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

By: Ben Smith

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, J… read more

Similar categories in Ben Smith's Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral book and Ben Smith's Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

  • audiobook
  • cultural
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social media
  • journalism
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley

15. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

By: Kerry Howley

3.81

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • technology
"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

Cover of Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST by Martin Baron

16. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST

By: Martin Baron

4.20

Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition

“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” — T… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Game of Edges: The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports by Bruce Schoenfeld

17. Game of Edges: The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports

By: Bruce Schoenfeld

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The story of how a new generation of tech-savvy franchise owners is reshaping every aspect of profe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter

18. Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Brian Stelter

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  HOAX,  “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

19. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

20. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fall by Michael  Wolff

21. The Fall

By: Michael Wolff

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ―Leo Tolstoy, Anna … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook

20 must-read audiobook books like Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith

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Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

4.26

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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Henry Grabar

4.20

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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis

3.80

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Kara Swisher

3.99

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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Brian Klaas

4.13

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Charles Duhigg

4.05

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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Becca Rothfeld

3.76

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