By: John B. Chilton (@uaeeconomist)
On the small chance anyone isn’t aware, Abbie Hoffman wrote a book titled Steal This Book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Book “The book sold more than a quarter of a million copies between...
View ArticleBy: Hamish Atkinson
This does sound pretty good. I always want to lend good books to friends, but the down side is that I often forget who I lent them to. This way I don’t need to remember. BTW, the title of this books...
View ArticleBy: “Information Wants to Be Shared”
[…] gets a great deal. The usual price of the book is $4.99. I have outlined the rationale behind this at my blog Digitopoly. Basically, it is the sort of thing I advocate for information businesses in...
View ArticleBy: Digitopoly | Where is the social Internet?
[…] was harder to think about was how to leverage bilateral email. For the sharing coupon on the book, a colleague lamented to me that he wanted to share it but wanted to just click to send an email […]
View ArticleBy: Simon Bramfitt
I’m not sure if Apple etc. provide something similar but the easy choice is to go to Amazon and ask for a sample to be sent to your Kindle.
View ArticleBy: A new approach to e-book sharing | GC Digitype
[…] As Gans comments, “Are there risks? Absolutely. All my readers could form a collective and potentially buy one copy for $4.99 and then a million for $0.99. A disaster! Actually, no that sounds...
View ArticleBy: The Sloman Economics News Site » Blog Archive » Information wants to be...
[…] folly of replicating the physical world HBR Blog Network, Joshua Gans (17/11/10)A shared pricing experiment for my book Digitopoly, Joshua Gans (05/10/12)Information wants to be…..shared O’Reilly...
View ArticleBy: Digitopoly | Clarifying the issues with Harvard Business Review
[…] my recent book and have an excellent staff. They were also decidedly non-evil and innovative in a pricing scheme for that and in their overall abandonment of DRM on ebooks. That said, I call...
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