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Free is Fashionable, But Still, Beware of Free Lunches

January 22, 2010 by Tim Berry with 156 views

I’ve been thinking about this Free business a lot. There’s Chris Anderson’s book Free, and the debate around it. There’s free content everywhere. I find great free photos on Flickr. I read free blogs every day. It’s not like free is all that new. I grew up with free radio and television, funded by advertising. And the free prize... [read more]

The Freemium Option Better For Video Sites?

December 1, 2009 by DJFrancis with 136 views

This week, I am writing a three-part series about business models for online video websites. Sites are changing. Online business is changing. Video is blowing up. It’s time we really thought about the best way to profit from creating and displaying video, while providing the best experience for the user. Let’s get to it. (Quick note:... [read more]

What to charge for in a world of Free

October 5, 2009 by Becky McCray with 160 views

"Memorable experiences are the ultimate scarce commodity." That's what I scribbled while driving, listening to Chris Anderson's Free. The marginal cost of digital distribution is falling toward to cheap to measure, so it makes sense to offer many digital products for free. For example, the Audible copy of Free I was listening came... [read more]

Chris Anderson: Nothing’s free, sorry.

July 7, 2009 by Zane Safrit with 233 views

Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail, has stirred the pot again with his book, Free. You can get a free copy here. (Thanks to Jay Ehret, TheMarketingGuy on Twitter.) Chris has stirred it with an egg-beater this time, enough for Malcolm Gladwell to chime in with an excellent rejoinder at the New Yorker: Priced to Sell. Chris. I don’t... [read more]

Would You Want It If It Were Free?

July 5, 2009 by Brad Feld with 175 views

The meme of “Free” is one again making the rounds. I expect it reignited when Chris Anderson’s new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price (available on Amazon for $17.81) quickly followed by Malcolm Gladwell’s semi-scathing review in the New Yorker titled “Priced to Sell.  Is Free the future?” (I kind of feel like Gladwell wimped... [read more]

Freemium and Freeconomics

July 4, 2009 by Fred Wilson with 170 views

This week we saw the release of Chris Anderson's book Free and reviews from the New Yorker (Malcolm Gladwell) and the Financial Times. I'd like to talk a bit about the firestorm that freeconomics (fed by Chris' book) has unleashed but first we need to clarify something. The FT piece says:The most plausible contender for an "entirely new... [read more]

The Continuing Confusion About Free

June 30, 2009 by Albert Wenger with 165 views

Last night I read Malcolm Gladwell’s review in the New Yorker of Chris Anderson’s new book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” followed by Chris Andersons’s response on his blog. I have not yet read the book, so my initial reaction is based on Gladwell’s review: there seems to be profound and ongoing confusion about critical economic... [read more]

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