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    "They could either send YouTube a notice saying 'Take down our copyrighted content,' or they could do what they did which was say, 'Okay, if it's Monty Python you want and if it's 'free' you want, we'll give it to you.'" So they created a Monty Python channel on YouTube and posted high-quality clips, encouraging those who wanted to see more to buy their DVDs. "Monty Python DVDs became the number two DVD on Amazon ... Their sales went up 23,000 percent. And free worked perfectly." "In effect, free is the advertising," Mason said. Full Article at CBS News
    Monty Python DVDs became the number two DVD on Amazon ... Their sales went up 23,000 percent. And free worked perfectly.
    – Chris Anderson SOURCE: CBS News 1 month ago
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  1. So we make an irrational decision?
    SOURCE: CBS News 1 month ago
  2. Free is a very powerful tactic ... And free can work for some components of some businesses. But free does not go far enough to power our whole economy, digital or otherwise.
    SOURCE: CBS News 1 month ago
  3. But what we started doing over the course of the last few years is putting some of it out there for free ... to say to the world, 'Hey, there's a lot of interesting stuff here, you know? Come sample it, get used to it, and maybe over time you'll become a subscriber, too.' And frankly that strategy worke...
    SOURCE: CBS News 1 month ago
  4. Suddenly free becomes a new economic model and not just a marketing trick ... And that seems to be what's really different about the online form of free: Digital stuff costs so little to make and reproduce and distribute that it's possible for a few to subsidize the many.
    SOURCE: CBS News 1 month ago
  5. Now one is free ... And now virtually everybody went to the Hershey's kiss. Now I have nothing against Hershey's, but the interesting thing is that when there were prices involved, people went for the quality. When something was called 'free,' people gave up the better chocolate.
    SOURCE: CBS News 1 month ago
  6. Google forces you to look really seriously at the free economy, because Google is the exception that either proves or breaks the rule, depending on how you look at it
    SOURCE: CBS News 1 month ago
  7. Unfortunately, there's no one answer
    – Chris Anderson SOURCE: CBS News 1 month ago
  8. It's not necessarily your most popular content you want to put behind the pay wall ... In fact, that's the stuff you want to put out in the free world - it brings in new readers.
    SOURCE: CBS News 1 month ago
  9. That's right ... The moment something is defined as free, we don't think there's any cost associated with it, we get attracted to it.
    SOURCE: CBS News 1 month ago
  10. Free is the best form of advertising, because you're not telling somebody about a product, you're allowing them to try it
    – Chris Anderson SOURCE: CBS News 1 month ago

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