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FREE: The Future of a Radical Price
Chris Anderson · 2025
🎙 Narrated by Chris Anderson (author-narrated, Hyperion Audio)
68/100
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Chris Anderson's thesis about building a business around giving things away is fun and readable, but Malcolm Gladwell publicly picked apart the economics in the New Yorker, and I think he had a point about the book oversimplifying real costs. There's also a mismatch between this listing's 2025 date and the book's actual 2009 origin that I couldn't resolve. Anderson narrates it himself and it's a decent listen, but I'd treat the central argument with some skepticism.
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🎙 Narration: fine Author-narrated (Chris Anderson) for the Hyperion Audio edition; no independent critical review of the narration was found.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness65
Craft & writing70
Originality70
Evidence & accuracy55
Hype vs delivers40
Age-fit90
Human-eye read70
Penny’s verdict68
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