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Eight things you can still sell when digital copies are free

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 20, 2026
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The internet is the world’s most efficient copy machine, and everything it touches — music, movies, books, code — slides toward a price of zero. In an essay called “Better Than Free”, Kevin Kelly argues that isn’t a death sentence for creators. “When copies are free,” he writes, “you need to sell things …

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