Free Ride

How the Internet Is Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
Ed.: Robert Levine

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Produktbeschreibung

'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 he predicted has led to a revolution in the way that our culture is funded and consumed.

We have come to demand free content online, mistaking the packaging of physical products for what we were actually paying for- the creative content. Newspapers are being pressurised to give their content away for free online; music sales have plummeted due to piracy; and Amazon is using its market power to drive down the price of ebooks.

Technology companies are making millions from content created and funded by others, reducing the value of culture in the process. How did the media industry lose control over its destiny? What are the consequences? And are we headed for cultural meltdown if the media can't stop the free ride?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 640767
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm
• Gewicht: 232g
• ISBN-13: 9780099549284
• ISBN-10: 009954928X
• Artikelnr.: 35054713

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

Meticulously researched book...Levine's solutions are sensible...it's a vital discussion we need to be having Davin O'Dwyer Irish Times