So… I wanted to take a look at the new book Free by bestselling author Chris Anderson who also coined and wrote The Long Tail.
But dammit! He’s doing the same thing as all the others, putting restrictions everywhere. You can’t download the book, you can only get it as MP3 or read it at Scribd… Can’t even get a PDF.
But even if you choose Scribd you can’t read it outside the US. It’s like if Chris Anderson was working in the music industry – in 1998… or well, 2009.
But here’s how you can read it on Scribd:
1. Go to the book on Scribd (opens in a new window)
2. Right when it displays the front page of the book, you keep holding down the Escape-key a couple of seconds, like 5 seconds or so
3. Now you should be able to read the book
Luckily they didn’t put the location checker on the serverside. But Scribd still sucks compared to reading it elsewhere.
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