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Free: The Future of a Radical Price
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Jun 22, 2009 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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And I've finally gotten around to this review, thanks to some motivation by someone to whom I was talking about the book.

It's a great book. It helps the reader understand how companies (the most memorable and obvious example - to me, anyway - is Google) make money while giving stuff away for free. As Chris Anderson mentions, sometimes giving stuff away for free can be the way to make the most money. Some do it through advertising; for others, the paid users cover the costs of the free users. The
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Sep 29, 2009 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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