June 2009
2 posts
Gladwell on Anderson on 'Free'
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price for the New Yorker. He doesn’t think it’s all that great.
There are four strands of argument here: a technological claim (digital infrastructure is effectively Free), a psychological claim (consumers love Free), a procedural claim (Free means never having to make a judgment), and a...
$1000 moon landing book comes with moon rocks
Taschen’s upcoming book, Norman Mailer, MoonFire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 has a small print run of 1969 copies (get it?), all signed by Buzz. But the last 12, according to Publisher’s Weekly, will also come with fragments of the moon:
Numbers 1 through 1,957 will be priced at $1,000, while the final 12 copies (numbered 1,958 through 1,969) will come with a certified...