For the win [electronic resource] / Cory Doctorow.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307710727 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0307710726 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: New York : Listening Library, 2010.
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General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 16:31:34. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by George Newbern. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 237501 KB; MP3 file size: 465514 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Teenagers > Fiction. Employee rights > Fiction. Internet games > Fiction. Teenagers > Fiction. Employee rights > Fiction. Internet games > Fiction. |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
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- Baker & Taylor
In a future where poor children and teenagers work for corrupt bosses as gold farmers, finding valuable items inside massively-multiplayer online games, a small group of teenagers work to unionize and escape this near-slavery. - Findaway World Llc
At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual gold, jewels, and precious artifacts. Meanwhile, millions of "gold farmers" toil in electronic sweatshops harvesting virtual treasure that their employers sell to First World gamers for real money.
Mala is a brilliant fifteen-year-old from rural India whose leadership skills in virtual combat have earned her the nickname "General Robotwalla." In China, Matthew defies his former bosses to build his own gold-farming crew. Leonard lives in Southern California and spends his nights fighting virtual battles alongside his buddies in Asia. All of these young people, and more, become entangled with the mysterious woman called Big Sister Nor, who builds them into a movement to challenge the status quo.
Fighting pitched battles in the virtual worlds of every MMORPG worth playing, Nor's network of gamers is so successful that it incurs ruthless opposition. Ultimately, Big Sister's people devise a plan to crash the economy of every virtual world at once-a Ponzi scheme combined with a brilliant hack that ends up being the biggest, funnest game of all.
- Random House Digital
At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual gold, jewels, and precious artifacts. Meanwhile, millions of "gold farmers" toil in electronic sweatshops harvesting virtual treasure that their employers sell to First World gamers for real money.           Mala is a brilliant fifteen-year-old from rural India whose leadership skills in virtual combat have earned her the nickname "General Robotwalla." In China, Matthew defies his former bosses to build his own gold-farming crew. Leonard lives in Southern California and spends his nights fighting virtual battles alongside his buddies in Asia. All of these young people, and more, become entangled with the mysterious woman called Big Sister Nor, who builds them into a movement to challenge the status quo.           Fighting pitched battles in the virtual worlds of every MMORPG worth playing, Nor's network of gamers is so successful that it incurs ruthless opposition. Ultimately, Big Sister's people devise a plan to crash the economy of every virtual world at once--a Ponzi scheme combined with a brilliant hack that ends up being the biggest, funnest game of all.