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The purpose of this wiki is to explore the use of the freemium business model.
Wikipedia quotes venture capitalist Fred Wilson as being the first to articulate the freemium business model in...
A business model is nothing else than a representation of how an organization makes (or intends to make) money.
Alexander Osterwalder writes some very interesting things about business models and...
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The following is a list of interesting articles relating to freemium.
Why It Pays to Give Away the Store
An story from CNN money about online freemium businesses
Chris Anderson, author of "The Long Tail" and the upcoming book "Free", talks about the business model of free:
When the marginal cost of producing something tends to zero, the smart thing to do is...
There are many successful examples of freemium within the IT industry: Skype, Flickr and the open source software industry. To illustrate the model, a few of these are included on this page.
Since...
A great ebook manifesto from Kevin Kelly
The general question in the ebook is:
"When copies are super abundant, they become worthless.
When copies are super abundant, stuff that can’t be copied...
Freemium blog
MediaFuturist
Techdirt
Lawrance lessigs blog
Business model innovation
The Long Tail
New music strategies
http://manybooks.net/titles/sandersonbother08Warbreaker.html
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/blog/606/Free-Copy-of-Mistborn!--Podcast!
Author of Go It Alone
Bruce Judson has put his latest book on-line free of charge, a move he and his publisher hope will drive sales, increase exposure and prove a new model for book delivery in...
Author of "Republic, A Novel of America future"
He also brovides a free download from his blog, and gives a short explination to why he does so
Charles Stross is the author of Several Books
He provides a free copy of Accelerando
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/03/why_the_commercial_ebook_marke.html
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http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intcr.htm
Club penguin
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3831738.ece
A great paper by Benkler who has been called “the leading intellectual of the information age”
“For decades our understanding of economic production has been that individuals order their...
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_common_craft_stopped_doing_client_work_in_plain_english.php
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The goal of this wiki is to describe the freemium business model, but who does that relate to other business models and what is a business model ?
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He is a author, a blogger and a activist, more to come,
He provides free copies of all his books
Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town
Eastern Standard Tribe
Down and Out in the Magic...
This wiki is a place for explortion about a free business models and freemium in particular
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Author of several books
He provides a free copy of his book autumn
AUTUMN is a hugely popular free novel, downloaded thousands of times every month. It has been called 'the perfect zombie story.'...
Eric Flint is author of Sci fi books. He has also writen about the economics of free downloads.
author of:
A Briefer History of Time
"I'd be very surprised if I lost sales as a result. I don't think there were many if any people who downloaded the book instead of buying it. There may have...
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A publishing house based on giving away great college textbooks. They then make money from selling printed versions and study aids.
Flat World Knowledge
Author of: several books
He provides a free copy of HOLY TANGO
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PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion
Author of The Media in the Network Society
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Author of Whiskey Sour
Jamendo is a successful and fast growing company the supplies free downloads of music. The business model is based on advertising in the streaming sample and voluntary contribution to the...
Author of cooking with booze
James Bridle is a London-based former publisher and editor. He currently works for publishers exploring the applications of new media to traditional book publishing,...
Author of: The Escapist
He provides a free downoad
The Escapist
http://www.bit-tech.net/columns/2005/06/16/be_my_guest_rip_me_off/1
Is a Canadian that has success with a self determining pricing system. You choose if and how much you would like to pay.
She also posts statistics on payment rates to date:
% Accepting gift from...
Author of Acts of the Apostles
"When you make your books available for free download, you get a lot of instant goodwill. Sometimes this translates into money. But even when it doesn't, it's nicer...
John Scalzui is the author of several books
He provides a free download of Old Man's War as a part of Tor’s free eBook series
On his blog he describes what inpack the release of the free ebook...
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Author of Children of Rhatlan gives away a free copy of the book on his blog, along with an exlpination to why he does so.
Author of Secondary Sound
http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/free-ebook-version
Author of several books
He provide a free copy of the book Strangers things happen
http://www.kk.org/newrules/newrules-4.html
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Open Design
Open learn
Podiobooks
Flat World Knowledge
Alacra
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071224/163001.shtml
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Ebooks and Essays
Better then Free by Kevin Kelly
Coase's Penguin by Yochai Benkler
Full lenth books
Wikinomics by Don Tapscot
The wealth of networks by Yochai Benkler
Open business models
Magnatune
Magnatune, a record label founded in 2003, is a pioneer of open music, the most successful attempt to embed Creative Commons (CC) licences in a sustainable commercial venture, and an...
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080910/2316262230.shtml
Author of a range of books and a free podcast called The Secret World Chronicle
Has written a series of blog posts on the econmics of free on techdirt
The Grand Unified Theory On The Economics Of Free
he continues to blog about these issues
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iq7zxCXnBw7mBDppX7bdIuOPPVbAD9303QDO0
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/09/michael-moore-t.html
Mike Brotherton is an author of science fiction books. in x he released his first book Star Dragon. after the hardback had been available for a few months the paperback was released and Mike put up...
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081119/0307122880.shtml
Blood spell
Michael Moore
Monty Python
Marillion
Kristin Hersh
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Opsound
Krayola Records
Loca Records
Small Brain Records
Jamendo
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Artists:
Radiohead
Prince
Trent Reznor
Jane...
This is a list of people I have come across in my work with freemium.
Author of several books
He provides a free copy of his book Move under ground
"I decided to release it under a Creative Commons license for a number of reasons. The first is simply that I wish my...
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The following authors have released books, that are also available to buy commercially, under a creative commons license. I have only include authors that are...
On Classical
The freemium business model is well know with online businesses. It is also here it has gotten the nam freemium. Most of these give away a service for free, a relative small number number of their...
Open Design
Ronen Kadushin is a seasoned designer and teacher of design. I relation with a master report about open design he launched the company open design.
The basic idea is that he provides a...
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/02/nature-of-free.html
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne
Besides freemium there are other business models based on free.
Chris Anderson does a great job of descriping these in this blogpost
Besides freemium he describes cross-subsidy and ad-supported
http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/2008/03/04/free-ebooks-three-points-and-a-whole-lot-of-rambling/
Author of :
The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo
A Book of Five Strings
The How and the Tao of Folk Guitar
Patrick Costello explains why he released his Banjo Instruction books under a Creative...
The best selling author Paulo Coelho is a firm believer in providing free download versions of his book. The following are links to articles describing this. In more is mentioned an example of how...
author of: Maelstrom and Starfish
Which are also available as free download
Maelstrom
Starfish
He has put his entire backlist up as creative commons eBooks, free to read. According to various...
I have decided to include prince as a best practise example, even though he has not released anything for free. What he did was to sell his album for mas distribution his new album with the English...
The band Radiohead recently released their latest album: In rainbows. Initially they did this only on their web page. Here you where able to download the album for free and pay what you thought was...
This page is the center for development of resources that help companies relate to and explore the freemium business model.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/03/kadreys-butcher-bird-1.html
Free is more complicated than you'd think
Scot Adams is the author of the widely popular comic strip Dilbert.
He says that he has had mixed results with giving away content on the Internet. he was...
Case about Scott Allen And David Teten
The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online.
"Bottom line: any dollar value associated with “lost” sales, we felt was exceeded by the...
Scott Sigler is the author bestselling author of several books. Before getting a bookdeal and becoming a best selling author, he created two free pod cast novels
Pushing boundaries, Sigler released...
Bestselling author and marketing guru, who has chosen to release some of his ebooks for free
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Skype is a VoIP phone service that lets users talk over the internet.
In August of 2003 the first beta version of skype was released, in Oktober 2005 it was aquired by ebay for 2,6 billion dollars...
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/steve_bosserman/2008/02/09/giving_it_away_making_money.htm
Author of The Linguist
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Author of Women & Money
More than 1 million copies of Suze Orman's "Women & Money" were downloaded after the announcement last week on Winfrey's television show that the e-book edition...
The 9 11 report is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was prepared by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. It...
"Going free was the best thing for us. Thanks to everyone that has downloaded the record"
The Charlatans is a Britsih band that recently have had succes with providing a free download of their new...
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blogpost
http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/10/abundance_and_f.html
Chris Anderson
Michael Masnick
Tim O’Reilly
Cory Docterow
Andrew Dubber
Cory Doctorow
Kevin Kelly
Yochai Benkler
Steve Bosserman
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/11/free-is-more-complicated-than.html
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7518
http://www.hackoff.com/blook/start.html
Author of Blood, Sweat and Tea
"Over a year after publication, it is clear that the free online book hasn’t damaged sales"
There were quite a few comments on Tom's blog where they said, 'I've...
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In January Trent Reznor posted on his site the results of his Radiohead-like experiment in giving away/selling the album of his protege, Saul Williams. The deal was that you could get a...
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Author of several books
He provides a free version of Rainbows End
http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/2008/03/04/free-ebooks-three-points-and-a-whole-lot-of-rambling/
Videos about subjects relating to freemium
Lawrence Lessig, the initiator of creative commons, talks about open culture.
Yochai Benkler talks about Open source economics
3 Minute video by...
http://wiki.icommons.org/index.php/The_OpenBusiness_Guide
http://p2pfoundation.net/Main_Page
www.openbusiness.cc/
OpenBusiness is a platform to share and develop innovative Open Business ideas-...
Wikipedia quotes venture capitalist Fred Wilson as being the first to articulate the freemium business model in 2006.
"Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire...
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