omnivoracious.com - 6/26/2009
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I didn't expect, when I came to post my BookExpo interview with Chris Anderson, that the pre-publication discussion of his new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price , would be all about a series of passages from Wikipedia and other web sources that he failed to properly credit in the ...
vqronline.org - 6/24/2009
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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 ...
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Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism
edrants.com - 6/24/2009
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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 ...
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Chris Anderson, Plagiarist?
blaine.org - 7/2/2009
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“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 ...
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7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #121: Featuring Chris Bartonand ...
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FREE Comes at a Price for Anderson
EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection —
... his blog, stating that the unattributed passages would be rewritten or credited to Wikipedia in all digital and future print editions of the book. It remains to be seen if the controversy will overshadow the book itself, which PW gave a starred review, saying “Anderson provides a thorough overview of the history of pricing and commerce…As in [his] previous book, the thought-provoking material is matched by a delivery that is nothing short of scintillating.” Amazon has also posted a video interview with Anderson from Book Expo, taped before the controversy erupted, in which ...
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