Free Ride
How the Internet is Destroying the Culture Business and How it Can Fight Back
$29.99
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2012
Summary
Do you read newspapers online? Own a Kindle? Download television programmes so you can skip the adverts? Free Ride explores the implications for modern culture of all these activities and asks how businesses can fight back against the expectation that everything we value should be available for free.
‘Information wants to be free’ says influential technologist Stewart Brand at a 1984 hacker convention. These words became the mantra that shaped the Internet, and the conflict h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099549284 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 009954928X |
| Author: | Robert Levine |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Meticulously researched book…Levine’s solutions are sensible…it’s a vital discussion we need to be having – Davin O’Dwyer * Irish Times *Levine is an engaging, provocative writer, and there is much to like about Free Ride…an entertaining read, with an entertaining cast * Observer *A book that should change the debate about the future of culture * New York Times Book Review *Brilliant… A crashcourse in the existential problems facing the media * The Times *Important – Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *Pugnacious and well-researched – Steven Poole * Guardian *Comprehensive – Pat Kane * Independent *Robert Levine tries to solve the tricky problem of internet copyright… This is an important debate, and this opinionated book is a welcome part of it – William Leith * Scotsman *
About The Author
Robert Levine
Robert Levine was the executive editor of Billboard and has written for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and the arts and business sections of the New York Times. Before that, he was a features editor at New York magazine and Wired. He holds a B.A. in politics from Brandeis and an M.S.J. from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He now covers the culture business from New York and Berlin. Free Ride is his first book.
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