Just read Chris Anderson’s Free online via his online blog. You can get it in a variety of formats if you read through recent entries there, including an audio format. Note that the book is available for free but not if you’re outside the US. The audio book is free regardless, it seems. It’s an interesting read, but a quick read as well. I could probably summarize the whole book as follows: Give away something that’s common or easily created in abundance while selling something that is rare or precious or more fully featured to those who wish a more intimate, more private, or simply more extensive instance of the thing you are selling. Thus, he’s proposing that that which has become a commodity — too cheap to meter, say — should be given away or provided in an open fashion. That which is rarer, say the statistical analysis of some data, should be sold to those wishing access to it and then at a premium. He even uses his own book as an example. The audio book is literally free (gratis). You can download it and listen to it. However, the abridged version is somewhere in the neighbourhood of
