business model innovation design we're on a road to nowhere // on a quest to analyze and explore the design of business model innovations, i.e. 'hideous and hidden things' like organizational structures and capabilities, corporate strategies and all things related // on a yellow brick road with a girl, a lion and a straw-man wasting our time // …

… that’s the name of the new book by Wired editor Chris Anderson on all the business chances that arise from a “free business model”. Obvious then that he’s giving away both the audiobook (get is as one zip, size 285 MB), and providing free access via Scribd:

FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson

More on the ideas in Wired, and in the blog post and comment thread that evolved around Malcolm Gladwells review, Seth Godins reply, Fred Wilson on Freemium and Freeconomics, the Broadstuff posts on Freeconomics (part 1 here) et al. Sometimes all this is circling too much around (the future or non-future of) journalism and authors, media industries and their fate when the implications are more far-reaching.