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The Freemium Business Model for Content

Here is a great speech by Chris Anderson about how reputation and attention are becoming the new economies upon which much of the internet (and potentially offline) world may be based upon. Freemium consists of giving away value (and possibly wrapping it in ads), as a lead generator to sell premium products and services.

Long Live Free: How Free Makes Money

The concept of "free" isn't exactly a new one, but it is taking on a sort of new life in the digital age as major publishers (slowly) warm up to the concept – except the recording industry, of course, where the "free" is usually coupled with "to help make us a lot more money."