{"id":10523,"date":"2013-09-12T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T18:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/?p=10523"},"modified":"2013-09-13T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T12:36:00","slug":"free-kindle-book-editors-picks-jeff-jarvis-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/2013\/09\/12\/free-kindle-book-editors-picks-jeff-jarvis-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Kindle book Editor’s Picks: Jeff Jarvis edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Jarvis tops today’s Buffet with one of the rare nonfiction books to make it to the top of the list — Gutenberg the Geek<\/em>, a fascinating look at the German innovator who introduced the printing press in 1448.<\/p>\n

\"jarvis\"<\/a>Jeff portrays the famed inventor as creator of more than just the printing press and the market for Bibles. “Gutenberg,” he argues, “should\u2026 be seen as the patron saint of Silicon Valley, for he used technology to create an industry.” Setting Gutenberg’s successes against the real pitfalls he endured, notably his early struggle to amass sufficient capital, Jarvis portrays a bad-boy innovator with a deft, if sometimes heavy hand. He bravely wears his assumptions– for example, the neutrality of technology– on his sleeve, and his lesson for techno-dreamers is straightforward. Read your history, Jarvis insists. “Your goal, geeks, is to be more like Gutenberg.” (Synopsis written by Jason Kirk.)<\/p>\n

Jeff is the proprietor of one of the Web’s most popular and respected blogs about the internet and media, Buzzmachine.com. He also writes the new media column for the Guardian in London. He was the creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly<\/em>, and he’s on the faculty of the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.<\/p>\n

As usual, each book listed here has gone FREE within the past 24 hours. Warning: Kindle book promotions can end without notice, so before downloading click the link \u201cSee Kindle price at Amazon\u201d to verify that the book is still free. (Prices and availability may differ outside USA.)<\/p>\n

Gutenberg the Geek (Kindle Single)<\/a><\/h3>\n

Essays & Ideas\u00a0\u00a0> Patents & Inventions\u00a0> Entrepreneurship
\nAuthor: Jeff Jarvis
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