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plagiarismtoday.com - 6/26/2009
The Chris Anderson Plagiarism Controversy
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Wired Editor Chris Anderson has been accused of plagiarism in his recent book, but do the accusations hold up?
Blog » Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism
vqronline.org - 6/23/2009
Blog » Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism
— vqronline.org — In the course of reading Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Hyperion,... $26.99), for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited ... (more) Blog » Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent ...

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spotify.com - 7/2/2009
Chris Anderson’s Free, the first audiobook on Spotify
— spotify.com — Wired Editor Chris Anderson has had a great influence on Spotify. His first book, The Long Tail,... has been required reading in our office since day one and today we’re extremely excited to be working with him to bring another first to ... (more) Chris Anderson’s Free, the first audiobook on Spotify

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longtail.com - 6/24/2009
Chris Anderson Responds to 'Free' Plagiarism Charges
— longtail.com — "This is entirely my own screwup, and will be corrected in the ebook and digital forms before... publication (and in the notes, which will be posted online at the same time the hardcover is released), but I did want to explain a bit more how it happened ... (more) Chris Anderson Responds to 'Free' Plagiarism Charges

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Lessons from the Interwebs: There's No Free Lunch and Not All Press is Good
The ArtLab — ... "you'd have to be mentally ill to do this on purpose"--and some are more skeptical about, such as Plagiarism Today's Jonathan Bailey, who writes that Anderson's effort "is, at best, extremely sloppy research" to the point that it "severely undermines the message of his book." ...

Chris Anderson, Malcolm Gladwell And A Look At Free
Techdirt — ... I did want to bring up one separate issue, because I get the feeling it will be raised in the comments. There was a lot of attention paid recently to charges of plagiarism in the book. Chris has ...

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