Gladwell: Information Wants to Cost What It's Worth

[melindadansky]

In this month's New Yorker, Gladwell reviews Free: The Future of a Radical Price, and incidentally demolishes the (deliberate?) misreading of the statement "Information wants to be free".

It's an excellent review. Worth a read.

And ironically, you can read it at The New Yorker's website without paying a thing.

Comments

[andelku]

That was nice. Thank you.

(Anderson, from his excerpt, sounds like he is on crack)

[melindadansky]

Gladwell is quoting the worst of it. Anderson's original "Long Tail" article was actually pretty well thought-out.

[rdansky]

The book, on the other hand, took the article's premise and stretched it way too far. Most of his examples about the long tail seemed to end up being best-sellers.

[bruceb]

This is admittedly about another book, but when I read this book commentary from Lawyers, Guns & Money, I thought, "If Melinda hasn't seen this yet, she wants to."

[melindadansky]

Oh yes! It's on my reading list.