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ZeroGravitas

Pop Quiz. Whose website is this quote from:

"Read it free online

Absolutely free.

The complete book. 16 chapters and 91 essays.

Completely free to read online."

http://bit.ly/the_answer_is

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Except they're not giving their product away for free, they're only offering complimentary 'Kool Aid'.

They charged $20 for their pdf for a while, though, before they made it free. And it was never even a "real book" that you could buy in stores, with its very own ISBN, and all that.

And from what I remember, they made a ludicrous amount of money on that PDF.

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