Free: The Future of a Radical Price
Product Description
The New York Times bestselling author heralds the future of business in Free. In his revolutionary bestseller, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before. Now, in Free, he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them. Far more than a promotional gimmick, Free is a business strategy that may well be essential to a company’s survival. The costs associated with the growing online economy are trending toward zero at an incredible rate. Never in the course of human history have the primary inputs to an industrial economy fallen in price so fast and for so long. Just think that in 1961, a single transistor cost $10; now Intel’s latest chip has two billion transistors and sells for $300 (or 0.000015 cents per transistor–effectively too… More >> Free: The Future of a Radical Price
May 22nd, 2010 at 7:16 am
This is a product defective by design. Are you aware that Amazon can interfere with books you thought you had purchased and owned? Ironically, hundreds of purchasers of George Orwell’s “1984″ and “Animal Farm” had these titles, which they owned, deleted from their Kindles by Amazon.
Others had the “Read Aloud” function switched off for titles that they had purchased. A student who had annotated a book lost all his work when the title was deleted. Unlike a real book, a Kindle book has a long piece of wire all the way back to Amazon, so they can jerk you around however they want.
And it’s overpriced. They are using the cheap razor, expensive blades paradigm, except the Kindle ain’t cheap.
Rating: 1 / 5
May 22nd, 2010 at 7:23 am
Haven NOT read the book. I believe it is just ironic that someone that talks about free actually charges for a book. Just goes to show that the writer has no concept of his actual subject. Rating: 1 / 5
May 22nd, 2010 at 10:08 am
the author claimed on the Charlie Rose show that the book was available for free for the Kindle at Amazon. It appears as though the price is actually $ 9.99 could someone please clarify. Rating: 1 / 5
May 22nd, 2010 at 11:49 am
I downloaded the audiobook version of this for free and I had to stop it about 3/4 of the way through. It went on and on with not much differentiation between the different chapters. The narration was done by the author and his tone seemed very snide. It was not at all easy to listen to both in terms of content that is too scattered as well as the voice and delivery style of the narration. Rating: 1 / 5
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Writing about the future price for goods being free and then charging $26.99 for it seems a bit counter-intuitive. Rating: 4 / 5