Speed Read - Free: The Future of a Radical Price

This article summarises the key points of "Price" by Chris Anderson, Editor-In-Chief of Wired (and author of the 2006 best-seller, The Long Tail).

Speed Read - Free: The Future of a Radical Price

Chris Anderson, Random House Business Books (2009) (view on Amazon)

Chris Anderson is Editor-In-Chief of Wired and the author of the 2006 best-seller, The Long Tail. Free is essentially an elaboration of Stewart Brand's famous declaration that "information wants to be free." The digital age, Anderson argues, is exerting an inexorable downward pressure on the prices of all things made of ideas.

As Google launch its free Chrome operating system and Microsoft announces that Windows 2010 will be partly free, this book is certainly with the...

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