Free : How Today's Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving Something for Nothing (Paperback)

from AJBraithwaite

Given the subject matter (making stuff free online), it seemed entirely appropriate to read this book in its free, online, incarnation. It's not a heavy read - the pages are small and there aren't too many of them. There are fun anecdotes about how marketing campaigns of the past have been succes...

from nnschiller

A nice coda to The Long Tail. Chris Anderson is a journalist, publisher, and someone who can write about economics for a public audience.I happen to drink the Kool-Aide connected to information abundance and how so much of the existing information distribution business is being disrupted by digit...

from crazybatcow

The price was right! haha, just kidding. I'd have paid for this book, even though I did get it for free (gratis, not libre). It's quite an interesting look at the nature of digital economies (and is not too technical/complicated for a dummy like me to follow). If you're not looking into the mass-...

from lizzybeans11

I only got this book because it was free and I like to listen to audiobooks on my commute. I would not have otherwise purchased it, because it is not in my usual realm of interest. Overall I thought this was a good overview of the concept of Free in a capitalist society. There are some nice case-...

from AJBraithwaite

Given the subject matter (making stuff free online), it seemed entirely appropriate to read this book in its free, online, incarnation. It's not a heavy read - the pages are small and there aren't too many of them. There are fun anecdotes about how marketing campaigns of the past have been succes...