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The Future Of 'Free'

Posted at 7:19AM Monday 29 Jun 2009

The Techno-literary blogosphere has been alight with the news that a forthcoming book by Chris Anderson, the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine and author of the best-selling book "The Long Tail," contains extended passages copied, uncredited, from Wikipedia.

This is not the sort of buzz an author wants, but the irony of the episode is that if it had happened to someone else, or even happened to Anderson a bit earlier, he might well have used it as a case study in the book itself.

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