Worth a read if you're into this idea. It includes some interesting historical examples of creative selling.
Can't say I _agree_ with the book, but glad I read it.
1. https://www.amazon.com/Free-Future-Radical-Chris-Anderson/dp....
That story can be read in the book "Free" by Chris Anderson: http://www.amazon.com/Free-The-Future-Radical-Price/dp/14013... (pages 7-10, available in the book preview)
- The book: http://www.amazon.com/Free-Future-Radical-Chris-Anderson/dp/...
- Gladwell's NYTimes rev: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/07/06/09070...
- Mike Masnick's TechDirt take: http://techdirt.com/articles/20090701/0422125421.shtml
- Fred Wilson at AVC: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/07/freemium-and-freeconomics.ht...
- Mark Cuban at BlogMaverick: http://blogmaverick.com/2009/07/05/the-freemium-company-life...
- Brad Feld's thoughts: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/07/would-you-want-it-if...
I especially appreciate the tip look where I might not have bothered: Wilson's post, who "identifies the two instances when Free actually works. The first instance is the service or software that offers a free trial and then converts users into paying customers. There are different flavors of this approach, the most popular being, give the basic version for free and charge for the advanced version."
DHH has written about abundance as part of his approach to Rails, https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-won-t-let-you-pay-me-for-my-open...
The “Post-scarcity economy” article on Wikipedia lists a number of references, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy
Generally, computing trends toward abundance. Computers are priced about the same, but do more each generation.