Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson (born 1961) is editor-in-chief of Wired, which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He wrote an article in the magazine entitled The Long Tail , which he expanded upon in the book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and five young children. He is the chairman of a new startup, BookTour.com Before joining Wired in 2001, he ... more

Chris Anderson (born 1961) is editor-in-chief of Wired, which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He wrote an article in the magazine entitled The Long Tail , which he expanded upon in the book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and five young children. He is the chairman of a new startup, BookTour.com Before joining Wired in 2001, he worked at The Economist, where he launched their coverage of the Internet. He also has a degree in physics from George Washington University and did research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has also worked at the journals Nature and The Scientist. His newest book, entitled Free, which examines the rise of pricing models which give products and services to customers for free, was released on July 7, 2009, by Hyperion. Anderson generated controversy for plagiarizing content from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, among other sources, in... less