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•Chris Anderson Lifted Wikipedia Passages for "Free"
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BY Chris Dannen 3 minutes ago The Virginia Quarterly Review took a close look at Wired editor Chris Anderson's upcoming book Free, and discovered that entire passages appear to match entries in Wikipedia verbatim. Says reviewer Waldo Jaquith: ". ...


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•Chris Anderson's 'Free' appears to borrow freely from Wikipedia...
Los Angeles Times, CA
The common passages -- which include definitions for the phrases "Free Lunch," "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," and "Learning Curve" -- appear without attribution within the text. The book has no footnotes or endnotes. ...


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•Chris Anderson accused of plagiarising Wikipedia for Free book
Music Ally, UK
Brickbats are being fired at digital thinker Chris Anderson, after it was claimed that a number of passages in his new Free: The Future of a Radical Price book were lifted verbatim from Wikipedia. The Virginia Quarterly Review uncovered this, ...


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•Free Indeed; Anderson's New Book Lifts Numerous Passages from ...
Publishers Lunch Deluxe, Bronxville
The Virginia Quarterly Review convincingly reproduces a number of incidences in Chris Anderson's new book FREE: The Future of a Radical Price that reproduce nearly verbatim portions of a number of Wikipedia articles. Anderson admits fault via e-mail, ...


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•Wired Editor Caught Copying And Pasting Wikipedia Into His New Book
The Business Insider, NY
The VQR says Wired editor Chris Anderson copied passages from Wikipedia into his soon-to-be released book Free. They came up with a whole bunch of examples. Here's a particularly damning one, comparing page 37 of Free and Wikipedia contributor ...


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•Wired editor admits "unfortunate mistake" in Wikipedia row
guardian.co.uk, UK
Chris Anderson, the bestselling author and editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, has said he is "feeling terrible" about including unattributed passages from Wikipedia and other sources in his new book, Free. The reproductions, uncovered by the Virginia ...


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•Did Wired Editor Chris Anderson Plagiarize Wikipedia for His ...
Paste Magazine, GA
By Ani Vrabel on June 24, 2009 12:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) One of the very first things high school students learn nowadays is that Wikipedia should never, ever be considered a legitimate source for research. Maybe Wired editor-in-chief Chris ...


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•Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book
New York Times, United States
By Motoko Rich Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine, copied portions of his forthcoming book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” from Wikipedia, without attribution. The passages were discovered by a reviewer for the Virginia Quarterly ...


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•Author acknowledges lifting Wikipedia material
Bloomington Pantagraph, USA
By Hillel Italie AP NEW YORK -- The author of a new book about the wisdom of free products on the Web has acknowledged taking some liberties in his own work. Chris Anderson, known for the influential business book "The Long Tail," said he was mistaken ...


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•Chris Anderson Apologizes For Plagiarizing Wikipedia
New York Times Blogs, NY
By Motoko Rich Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine, copied portions of his forthcoming book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” from Wikipedia, without attribution. The passages were discovered by a reviewer for the Virginia Quarterly ...


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•Wired' Editor Apologizes For Copying From Wikipedia In Book
EasyBourse.com, France
WASHINGTON (AFP)--The editor of Wired magazine apologized Wednesday for failing to cite online Wikipedia in passages in his new book, ironically titled "Free." "This is entirely my own screwup, and will be corrected in the ebook and digital forms ...


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•Wired' Editor Apologizes For Copying From Wikipedia In Book
NASDAQ, New York
WASHINGTON (AFP)--The editor of Wired magazine apologized Wednesday for failing to cite online Wikipedia in passages in his new book, ironically titled "Free." "This is entirely my own screwup, and will be corrected in the ebook and digital forms ...


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•Wired editor apologizes for plagiarizing Wikipedia
ABS CBN News, Philippines
WASHINGTON - The editor-in-chief of technology magazine Wired apologized on Wednesday for failing to cite online encyclopedia Wikipedia in passages in his new book, the ironically titled "Free." "This is entirely my own screwup, and will be corrected ...


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•Author acknowledges lifting Wikipedia material
Contra Costa Times, CA
By Hillel Italie AP NEW YORK — The author of a new book about the wisdom of free products on the Web has acknowledged taking some liberties in his own work. Chris Anderson, known for the influential business book "The Long Tail," said he was mistaken ...


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•Author acknowledges lifting Wikipedia material
San Jose Mercury News, USA
By Hillel Italie AP NEW YORK — The author of a new book about the wisdom of free products on the Web has acknowledged taking some liberties in his own work. Chris Anderson, known for the influential business book "The Long Tail," said he was mistaken ...


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•Author acknowledges lifting Wikipedia material
SiliconValley.com, CA
By Hillel Italie AP NEW YORK — The author of a new book about the wisdom of free products on the Web has acknowledged taking some liberties in his own work. Chris Anderson, known for the influential business book "The Long Tail," said he was mistaken ...


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•Author acknowledges lifting from Wikipedia
North County Times, CA
NEW YORK (AP) ---- The author of a new book about the wisdom of free products on the Web has acknowledged taking some liberties in his own work. Chris Anderson, known for the influential business book "The Long Tail," said he was mistaken for using ...


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