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		The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr 304 pages	Only $14.95 (normally $16.95)

A hundred years ago, companies stopped generating their own power with steam engines and dynamos and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities didn't just change how businesses operate. It set off a chain reaction of economic and social transformations that brought the modern world into existence.

Today, a similar revolution is under way. Hooked up to the Internet's global computing grid, massive information-processing plants are pumping data ans software code into our homes and businesses.

This time, it's computing that's turning into a utility.

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"This is a great book that will give you a real understanding of the changes coming with cloud computing and software as a service. This book will get your brain moving, pondering what's next."

-- Karl W. Palachuk, SMB Books