Free or not free?
07/26/09 11:31 Filed in: books
Chris
Anderson's new book Free is available for free as a
download to Kindle. But the hardbound edition costs
$24.95. Not free. His thesis is that no matter what
content providers think about it, free digital copies
of content are going to win out. It falls apart in
some areas of his model, but we do need to examine
what the concept of free is going to mean for us. We
fall on this side of the free divide - we do our work
before people bundle it off to try and make money
with their content and our indexes. Or we provide the
access to huge bodies of information that must be
accessed. But will digital free mean that we lose
customers, because they are cutting the costs of
making things so close to free?
By the way, Anderson's book has an index. It is inactive in the kindle edition. I would love to write to him and let him know that for $50, Joshua Tallent could have kindlized it for him.
Jonathan Fields has more about hoping all things won't be free.
By the way, Anderson's book has an index. It is inactive in the kindle edition. I would love to write to him and let him know that for $50, Joshua Tallent could have kindlized it for him.
Jonathan Fields has more about hoping all things won't be free.