Comments on: "Free is More Complicated Than You Think" http://truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/01/free-is-more-complicated-than-you-think/ Academic commentary on law, business, economics and more Sat, 02 Jun 2012 12:17:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Brad http://truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/01/free-is-more-complicated-than-you-think/#comment-7066 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:17:22 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/01/free-is-more-complicated-than-you-think/#comment-7066 I’m not sure if this has been mentioned before, but Stephen King tried a similar experiement some years ago. He offered to publish chapters of a serialized novel on the Internet as long no less than 75% of the downloaders paid a $1 for each chapter. The goal was met on the first two chapters, but then downloaders began to exceed payers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plant for the specifics.

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