Free is not a business model
Posted: July 09, 2009
By: blogs.zdnet.com
The usual blast of hot air is wafting around the Internet in a renewed discussion of how to make money from giving content and services away for free. This has been prompted by the publication of Wired editor Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price.
A lot of people seem to like the idea of being able to make money without having to charge for what they do, presumably because the idea of asking people for money makes them uncomfortable, or because they haven’t the vaguest notion of how to go about building a charging mechanism into their website (vide Twitter, Facebook, etc)……..[read entire story]
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