‘Free’ by Chris Anderson for Free – Save €25

The new book by Chris Anderson, "Free: The Future of a Radical Price", is now available to download for Free in the Sony eBook store for a limited time.

I’m about 1/3 through the book myself and it’s a really interesting read. Anderson argues that the digital age is pushing the price of all things "made of ideas" downwards.

The costs associated with the growing online economy are trending toward zero at an incredible rate. Never in the course of human history have the primary inputs to an industrial economy fallen in price so fast and for so long. Just think that in 1961, a single transistor cost $10; now Intel’s latest chip has two billion transistors and sells for $300 (or 0.000015 cents per transistor–effectively too cheap to price). The traditional economics of scarcity just don’t apply to bandwidth, processing power, and hard-drive storage.

To download the book you will need to sign up for an account at the Sony eBook Store (free), and download the eBook software (free). The book can be read on screen with the software or you can download it to your eBook reader.

Don’t delay though – it is only free for a limited time. If you bought the dead tree version in Eason it would cost you €25.