I quite enjoyed reading Wired editor Chris Anderson‘s book The Long Tail. In The Long Tail, a rather interesting discussion of Internet marketing and sales is presented, completed with numerous examples. The long tail is the phenomenon that permits niche products to be offered to such a huge audience that making a certain number of sales is inevitable.

In Free, Anderson examines market forces that result in pricing models in which customers are able to access goods and services at no charge. It’s an interesting idea and is worthwhile reading for anyone partaking of the Internet.

Chris Anderson - Free

If nothing else, the book has received a fair share of publicity due to allegations that Anderson plagiarized certain sections of his text. Ironically, the source of those copied passages is said to be Wikipedia, a huge, free source of information.

The audio version of Free is available as a 280MB MP3 download from the Wired website. At no charge. Give it a listen…

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