Digital Barbarism by Mark Helprin audiobook

Digital Barbarism

By Mark Helprin
Read by David Colacci

HarperAudio
8.97 Hours Unabridged
Format : Digital Download (In Stock)
  • Regular Price: $24.99

    Special Price $19.99

    or 1 Credit

    ISBN: 9780061780158

    $12.99 With Membership: Learn More

“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.” —National Review online   In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators. A timely, cogent, and important attack on the popular Creative Commons movement, Digital Barbarism provides rational, witty, and supremely wise support for the individual voice and its hard-won legal protections.

Learn More
Membership Details
  • Only $12.99/month gets you 1 Credit/month
  • Cancel anytime
  • Hate a book? Then we do too, and we'll exchange it.
See how it works in 15 seconds

Summary

Summary

“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.”

National Review online

 

In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators. A timely, cogent, and important attack on the popular Creative Commons movement, Digital Barbarism provides rational, witty, and supremely wise support for the individual voice and its hard-won legal protections.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Aptly spirited.” Wall Street Journal
“It is the only treatise of its kind…Certainly every aspiring magazine writer needs to peruse it.” National Observer
“[A] passionate defense of authors’ rights and the power of the individual voice…offered in elegant prose and with a rapier-sharp wit.” Publishers Weekly

Reviews

Reviews

Author

Author Bio: Mark Helprin

Author Bio: Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin is the internationally acclaimed author of numerous works, including the New York Times bestsellers Winter’s Tale, In Sunlight and in Shadow, and Swan Lake.

Titles by Author

See All

Details

Details

Available Formats : Digital Download
Runtime: 8.97
Audience: Adult
Language: English