{"id":100,"date":"2009-07-08T11:46:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2021-04-18T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T13:18:14","slug":"get-a-free-copy-of-free-by-chris-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/get-a-free-copy-of-free-by-chris-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a free copy of \u2018Free\u2019 by Chris Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/longtail.typepad.com\/the_long_tail\/2009\/07\/free-for-free-first-ebook-and-audiobook-versions-released.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/freecover.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102 lazyload\" title=\"freecover\" alt=\"Book cover design for Chris Anderson's \" width=\"279\" height=\"426\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 279px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 279\/426;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/freecover.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102\" title=\"freecover\" alt=\"Book cover design for Chris Anderson's \" width=\"279\" height=\"426\"\/><\/noscript><\/a>\n<p>Wired Magazine Editor in Chief Chris Anderson&#8217;s new book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1401322905?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=michaecom0d-20&amp;linkId=5b056d334109895aa32674f6d498b116&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\">Free<\/a><\/em> was released on July 7, 2009. The publisher&#8217;s summary of the title indicates that &#8220;in Free, [Anderson] makes the compelling case that, in many instances, businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson is distributing copies of the new title for free in eBook, MP3, and audiobook format. For those of you who love the feel of a book in your hands, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1401322905?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=michaecom0d-20&amp;linkId=5b056d334109895aa32674f6d498b116&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\">printed copies of <em>Free<\/em><\/a> are now available for sale too. I plan to enjoy listening to the free audiobook version from Audible during my commute.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson also wrote the bestseller <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1401309666?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=michaecom0d-20&amp;linkId=28f50cc4e7b1733d1d83932e45a599ea&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\">The Long Tail<\/a><\/em> &#8212; about how niche markets delivering unique products can be made available to consumers through online stores.<\/p>\n<p>To download your copy of <em>Free<\/em>, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/longtail.typepad.com\/the_long_tail\/2009\/07\/free-for-free-first-ebook-and-audiobook-versions-released.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Get a free copy of &#8220;Free&#8221; by Chris Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired Magazine Editor in Chief Chris Anderson&#8217;s new book Free was released on July 7, 2009. The publisher&#8217;s summary of the title indicates that &#8220;in &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Get a free copy of \u2018Free\u2019 by Chris Anderson\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/get-a-free-copy-of-free-by-chris-anderson\/#more-100\" aria-label=\"Read more about Get a free copy of \u2018Free\u2019 by Chris Anderson\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_type":0,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[687],"tags":[31,30,591,29,32],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}