Joshua Talent
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 Talent 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 Talent could have kindlized it for him.
Jonathan Fields has more about hoping all things won't be free.