Free Ride : How the Internet is Destroying the Culture Business and How it Can Fight Back

ISBN-13: 9780099549284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str.

Robert Levine

Opis

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? This title deals with these questions.

Recenzje

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

O autorze

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.