Rob Reid books

Rob Reid is an American author and entrepreneur who founded Listen.com (later Rhapsody) and writes fiction and non-fiction about tech, business, and science. His novels blend comedy with sharp observations about Silicon Valley culture and the music industry.

Non-Fiction

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Year One: An Intimate Look Inside Harvard Business School 1994 Buy
Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days that Built the Future of Business 1997 Buy

Silicon Valley

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After On 2017 Buy

Standalone Novels

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Year Zero 2012 Buy

Rob Reid spent years at the center of the early internet business world before turning to writing. He founded Listen.com, which became the streaming service Rhapsody, giving him a front-row seat to the collision of technology and the music industry.

That experience fed directly into his fiction. Year Zero imagines what would happen if alien civilizations, having illegally downloaded all of human music, owed damages under US copyright law so vast they exceed the value of the known universe. His later novel After On tackles AI and the social media age with similar wit.

His non-fiction work from the 1990s covers Harvard Business School and the early web economy, written while those subjects were still unfolding around him.


Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Rob Reid written?

Rob Reid has written four books across three series.

What was Rob Reid's first book?

Rob Reid’s first book is Year One: An Intimate Look Inside Harvard Business School, published in 1994.

What is Rob Reid best known for writing?

His novel Year Zero, a comic sci-fi story about aliens discovering human music and the absurdity of copyright law, brought him the widest readership.

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