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.

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 Pugnacious and well-researched -- Steven Poole Guardian Important -- Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times

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.