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Free by Chris Anderson plagiarized?
Free by Chris Anderson plagiarized?
File under: Author behaving badly. And: Irony of ironies. Chris Anderson's book The Long Tail described how the Internet is shaking up the distribution model of established companies, and won him a following as an astute observer of business trends. But...
Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism
Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism
vqronline.org — In the course of reading Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Hyperion,... $26.99), for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from ... (more) Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism
Chris Anderson, Plagiarist?
Chris Anderson, Plagiarist?
edrants.com — The Virginia Quarterly Review’s Waldo Jaquith has uncovered several instances of apparent plagiarism within Chris Anderson’s forthcoming... book, Free. Unfortunately, I have learned that the VQR’s investigations only begin to scratch ... (more) Chris Anderson, Plagiarist?
7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #121: Featuring Chris Bartonand Tony Persiani
blaine.org — “One brother wanted to save lives. The other brother wanted to dazzle crowds.With Day-Glo, they did both.”... — From Chris Barton’s The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer’s Bright Ideas and Brand-New ... (more) 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #121: Featuring Chris Bartonand ...
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Discoveries of Plagiarism Continue Online. In Other News: Water Still Wet
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books — ... First up: Chris Anderson‘s Free, the sequel to Long Tail, which describes how acts of generosity in product distribution may create profit. ...

Friday Bookish Buzz: It's Not the Heat...
book-a-rama — ... being a sooky baby Holden Caulfield! That's what they'd say around here. I should be embarrassed to admit this but I never read Catcher in the Rye and thought it was about farmers. *Some big names signed up for The International Festival of Authors. *Wow, these are some crazy images from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Anne Hathaway looks gorgeous. *Plagiarism. Yep, it's in the news again. First Elizabeth Hasselbeck then Chris Anderson, the author of Free. *Stick a fork in it. Kate Gosselin's book Love Is in the Mix is ...

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