“In Silicon Valley, the information that wants to be free is almost always the information that belongs to someone else.”— Robert Levine, amazon.comTagged: Free Information, Silicon Valley
“To Google, Auletta's book is just a series of ones and zeros—and not very many of them, compared with a movie. To Auletta, those ones and zeros were exceptionally expensive to create—at least in terms of time—since the technology that has revolutionized the cost of distributing text hasn't dramatica…”— Robert Levine, amazon.comTagged: Data, Information Economics
“The real conflict online is between the media companies that fund much of the entertainment we read, see, and hear and the technology firms that want to distribute their content—legally or otherwise.”— Robert Levine, amazon.comTagged: Book Publishing, Media Companies, Privacy