sethgodin.typepad.com - 7/2/2009
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I've never written those three words before, but he's never disagreed with Chris Anderson before, so there you go. Free is the name of Chris's new book, and it's going to be wildly misunderstood and widely argued about. The first argument that makes no sense is, "should we want free to be the ...
sethgodin.typepad.com - 7/2/2009
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(and I think it works for lots of
products) Is the purpose of the cover to sell...
books, to accurately describe what's in the book, or to tee up the reader so the book has maximum impact? The third. It's the third because if the book has maximum impact, ...
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... for the common use of the members. (The first truly public library would not come along for about a century.)
Phillip Roth does some “Jewish shouting” (more like yodeling) on a “booty-shaking” dance track. I shit you not. (Via @ScottEsposito)
The Guardian UK is also tepid about Free: the book “doesn’t take the reader far beyond the notion that there’s a lot of free stuff about.”
But not everyone disagrees with Chris Anderson.
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Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent —
... ). Gladwell notes that free doesn't really work as a business model. Seth Godin in turn published a takedown of Malcolm Gladwell, saying free is going to happen anyway. Who's right? You decide. Also you don't have to pay to read any of this. ...
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The Savvy Reader —
... Debt Do Us Part, will publish a book with us in January 2010 called Debt Free Forever: Taking Control of Your Money & Your Life. She came into the office this week for a quick meeting and left with 4 copies of Kerry K. Taylor's 397 Ways to Save Money for a contest on her blog. Act quickly or they'll all be gone! Book Army sets out the top Lit-Flicks. Agree or disagree? According to Seth Godin, Malcolm is wrong and Chris is right. Again, agree or disagree?
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A Year of Reading —
... And a post to read if you want to try to get your head around the world in which our students/children will be adults: "In a world of free, everyone can play." ...
FREE Rides Controversy to #119 on Amazon
EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection —
Chris Anderson, author of the business book Free : The Future of a Radical Price , seems to have weathered the plagarism charges we mentioned a few weeks ago , only to receive a smackdown from fellow business writer Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker and a tepid review by Janet Maslin in the New York Times . Yet those reviews have prompted defenses of Anderson’s book by mega-blogger Seth Godin and BusinessWeek , along with a respectful review in the Wall St. Journal and a profile in USA Today . The fuss is ...
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