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Cover of: Free by Chris Anderson
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Cover of: Free by Chris Anderson

Free
the future of a radical price
Chris Anderson.

Published 2009 by Hyperion in New York .
Written in English.

Table of Contents

What's free?
Free 101 : a short course on a most misunderstood word
The history of "free" : zero, lunch and the enemies of capitalism
The psychology of free : it feels good. Too good?
Too cheap to matter : when something halves in price each year, zero is inevitable
"Information wants to be free" : the history of a phrase that defined the digital age
Competing with free : Microsoft learned how to do it over decades, but Yahoo had just months
De-monitization : Google and the birth of a 21st century economic model
The new media models : free media is nothing new. What is new is the expansion of that model to everything else
How big is the free economy? : There's more to it than just dollars and cents
Waste is (sometimes) good : the best way to exploit abundance is to relinquish control
Econ 000 : how a century-old joke became the law of digital economics
"You get what you pay for" : and other doubts about free
Non-monetary economies : where money doesn't rule, what does?
Free world : China and Brazil are the frontiers of free. What can we learn from them?
Imagining abundance : science fiction as a thought experiment in "post-scarcity" societies
Coda
Free rules
The 10 principles of abundance thinking.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
658.8/16
Library of Congress
HF5415 .A6197 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23202388M
Internet Archive
freefutureofra00ande
ISBN 13
9781401322908
LC Control Number
2009012333
Library Thing
7008317
Goodreads
6150530

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February 29, 2012 Edited by ImportBot import new book
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August 19, 2010 Edited by IdentifierBot added LibraryThing ID
April 16, 2010 Edited by bgimpertBot Added goodreads ID.
May 15, 2009 Created by ImportBot Initial record created, from Library of Congress MARC record.