Friday, October 05, 2007
BBC News article on 'The Value of Free'
I came across this article earlier - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7024728.stm
I think it touches on Benjamin's concerns about reproduction (although not as eloquently as him), particularly the passage : 'Go back a few hundred years and the typical book was an object of extraordinary cost and rarity, where the value of the book itself was bound up with the importance of the information. Now Google gives them away for nothing.'
Interesting that I came across the article for free on the internet..I think that about sums everything up!
I think it touches on Benjamin's concerns about reproduction (although not as eloquently as him), particularly the passage : 'Go back a few hundred years and the typical book was an object of extraordinary cost and rarity, where the value of the book itself was bound up with the importance of the information. Now Google gives them away for nothing.'
Interesting that I came across the article for free on the internet..I think that about sums everything up!
# posted by Emily Victor @ 11:04 AM 
