Descripción
What happens when advances in technology allow many things to be produced for more or less nothing? And what happens when those things are then made available for free? In his groundbreaking new book, Long Tail author Chris Anderson considers a brave new world where the old economic certainties are being undermined by a growing flood of free goods - newspapers, DVDs, T shirts, phones, even holiday flights. He explains why this has become possible - why new technologies, particularly the Internet, have caused production and distribution costs in many sectors to plummet. He shows how the flexibility that the on-line world provides allows producers to trade ever more creatively, offering items for free to make real or perceived gains elsewhere. And he demonstrates the ways in which, as an increasing number of things become freely available, our decisions to make use of them will be determined by two resources far more valuable than money: the popular reputation of what is on offer and the time we have av