Free Ride How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back

Name: Free Ride How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
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ISBN: 9780307739773

ISBN-10: 0307739775

ISBN-13: 9780307739773

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Authors: Robert Levine

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How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes? Their customers were lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist Robert Levine shows how they can get back on track.On the Internet, “information wants to be free.” This memorable phrase shaped the online business model, but it is now driving the media companies on whom the digital industry feeds out of business. Today, newspaper stocks have fallen to all-time lows as papers are pressured to give away content, music sales have fallen by more than half since file sharing became common, TV ratings are plummeting as viewership migrates online, and publishers face…

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List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/18/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.14" wide x 7.99" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



Introduction The Online Free-for-All



How Congress Created YouTube-and Media's Big Problem



Facing the Music: How the Internet Devastated the Music Business



Geeks Bearing Gifts: Google's War on Copyright



The Siren Song of "Free": Why Newspapers Struggled Online



The Revolution May Not Be Televised: How the Internet Could Kill Mad Men



Books or Kindle-ing? How Technology Could Turn the Page on Publishing



Moving Pictures: Can Hollywood Conquer the Cloud?



Disquiet on the European Front: "Why France Favors Art Over the Internet



Blanket Protection: Turning Copyright into Copyrisk



The Future of the Future: Commerce or Chaos?


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