Free The Future of a Radical Price

Name: Free The Future of a Radical Price
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ISBN: 9781401322908

ISBN-10: 1401322905

ISBN-13: 9781401322908

Edition: 2009

Authors: Chris Anderson

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Following his "New York Times" bestseller, "The Long Tail, Free" is another look at the radical new way business is done. . . . [It] shows a new economic model that goes way beyond the old concepts of free with purchase' or loss leaders'.--Will Baillett.

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Hyperion Press
Publication date: 7/7/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Chris Anderson is Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine and is the author of the internationally acclaimed The Long Tail, which was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award in 2006 and won the Loeb Award for the best business book in 2007. His next book, Free, was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Northern California with his wife and five children.



Prologue



The Birth of Free


What is 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?


Digital Free



Too Cheap to Matter: The Web's Lesson: 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-Monetization: Google and the Birth of a Twenty-First-Century Economic Model



The New Media Models: Free Media Is Nothing New. What Is New Is the Expansion of That Model to Everything Else Online



How Big is the Free Economy? There's More to It Than Just Dollars and Cents


Freeconomics and the Free World



Econ ooo: How a Century-old Joke Became the Law of Digital Economics



Nonmonetary Economies: Where Money Doesn't Rule, What Does?



Waste is (Sometimes) Good: The Best Way to Exploit Abundance Is to Relinquish Control



Free World: China and Brazil Are the Frontiers of Free. What Can We Learn from Them?



Imagining Abundance: Thought Experiments in "Post-Scarcity" Societies, from Science Fiction to Religion



"You Get What You Pay For": And Other Doubts About Free


Coda: Free in a Time of Economic Crisis


Free Rules: The Ten Principles of Abundance Thinking


Freemium Tactics


Fifty Business Models Built on Free


Acknowledgments


Index