sethgodin.typepad.com - 7/1/2009
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I've never written those three words before, but he's never disagreed with Chris Anderson before, so there you go. Free is the name of Chris's new book, and it's going to be wildly misunderstood and widely argued about. The first argument that makes no sense is, "should we want free to be the ...
newyorker.com - 6/30/2009
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At a hearing on Capitol Hill in May,
James Moroney, the publisher of the Dallas Morning News,
told Congress about negotiations he’d just had with the online retailer Amazon. The idea was to license his newspaper’s content to the Kindle, ...
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Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future?
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Free vs Freely Distributed
blog maverick —
... , and Seth Godin discuss the various merits and challenges of Free. Is Free inevitable ? Is Free the beginning of the end ? Let me answer the question. ...
Making Money From Free
Only Dead Fish —
... As Seth says: "People will pay for content if it is so unique they can't get it anywhere else, so fast they benefit from getting it before anyone else, or so related to their tribe that paying for it brings them closer to other people." 'Free' is a relatively cheap way of getting attention. Attention is a good platform from which to derive value. ...
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The Tom Peters Weblog —
... At his favorite local bookstore, Northshire Bookstore, you can now find print on demand books. We're not sure how the experiment will turn out, but everyone at tompeters.com adores this cozy independent bookstore. If you're ever in Manchester Center, Vermont, stop by.
Have you been tuned into the debate? Malcolm Gladwell reviewed Chris Anderson's book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Chris Anderson responded, in part. And Seth Godin chimed in as well. Let us know what you think about the future of Free in ...
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