Interesting New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell that is part review, part rebuttal of the ideas put forth in Chris Anderson's "Free: The Future of a Radical Price".
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Anderson is the editor of Wired and the author of the 2006 best-seller “The Long Tail,” and “Free” is essentially an extended elaboration of Stewart Brand’s famous declaration that “information wants to be free.” The digital age, Anderson argues, is exerting an inexorable downward pressure on the prices of all things “made of ideas.” Anderson does not consider this a passing trend. Rather, he seems to think of it as an iron law: “In the digital realm you can try to keep Free at bay with laws and locks, but eventually the force of economic gravity will win.”
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http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critic...urrentPage=all