This book addresses the question of whether or not information has become a commodity and examines how infonomics and the "business of free" have changed the way companies must create and market their information to make it most accessible and valuable for their consumers. - Provided by publisher

On the basis of the usually applied narrow definition of the Information and Communication (IC) sector, which encompasses only those industrial sectors whose outputs include modern IC technology and services as well as content, it could be said that, during the last 20 years, Germany has...