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Recommended Reading: Tim Ferriss’s BitTorrent Experiment

12 April 2013

An interesting development in the BitTorrent/piracy debate.

Late last year 4 Hour Work Week author Tim Ferriss, with his latest book 4 Hour Chef, set out to see if he could circumvent the 6 big publishers and instead go it alone by partnering with Amazon and BitTorrent.

In this piece for ReadWrite.com journalist John Paul Titlow talks to Tim about the results of his experiment, which resulted in a BitTorrent to Amazon click-through rate of 880,000, and looks at the ‘Piracy Question’.

Read it here.

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