This is forwarded from the old list, which will be shut down soon. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 13:26:46 +0700 Subject: [p2p-research] Fwd: Comment on The Ten Best P2P Books of 2010, Internet Architecture and Innovation. Barbara van Schewick. MIT Press, 2010 To: Peer-To-Peer Research List <[email protected]> for wrap up, see also: http://p2pfoundation.net/Internet_Architecture_and_Innovation ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Barbara van Schewick <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:16 PM Subject: Comment on The Ten Best P2P Books of 2010 To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> Hi Michel, thanks for including a special mention of my book in your list of the top peer-to-peer books for 2010. That's a great honor. I followed the link to more information, and your wiki page for the book links to MIT Press. It may make more sense to link to my website for the book, which includes a more accessible summary than the one on the wiki ( http://netarchitecture.org), more detail on the issues covered by the book ( http://netarchitecture.org/content/overview/), excerpts from the book ( http://netarchitecture.org/content/excerpts/), a blog ( http://netarchitecture.org/blog/), and excerpts from reviews ( http://netarchitecture.org/coverage/read/). I would also suggest adding at least one other review. Adam Thierer's review mischaracterizes my position on a number of issues, so it's not the best introduction to the book. You can find links to other reivews on the book website. Two I like most (that are also the two most detailed), are these: Marvin Ammori, Internet Policy: Most Important Book in Years is Now Out, August 11, 2010: http://ammori.org/2010/08/11/vanschewic/ “There’s a new book out on Internet policy that is essential reading for anyone interested in Internet policy—and probably for anyone interested in the law, economics, technology, or start-ups. I recommend it to everyone. … Barbara van Schewick’s new book, “Internet Architecture and Innovation,” is one of the very few books in my field in the same league as Larry Lessig’s Code, in 2000, and Yochai Benkler’s Wealth of Networks, in 2006, in terms of its originality, depth, and importance to Internet policy and other disciplines. I expect the book to affect how people think about the Internet; about the interactions between law and technical architectures in all areas of law; about entrepreneurship in general. I also think her insights on innovation economics, which strike me as far more persuasive than lawyers’ usual assumptions, should influence “law and economics” thinking for the better. … This is one of those rare books where every chapter is full of novel and important ideas. But I’ll tell you about my very favorite part. In the eighth chapter, beginning with “The Value of Many Innovators,” van Schewick presents the stories of how several major technologies were born: Google, Flickr, EBay, 37Signals, Twitter, and even the World Wide Web, email, and web-based email. I had always suspected that the “accidental” beginnings and unexpected successes of these technologies were a series flukes, one fluke after another. Rather, van Schewick explains, it’s a pattern. Her models actually predict the pattern accurately–unlike other academic models like the efficient market hypothesis and theories on valuing derivatives. These entrepreneurial stories (or case studies, to academics) are eye-opening; they’re also counter-intuitive unless you consider the management science and evolutionary economics van Schewick applies to analyze them. So if you wondered what the invention of Flickr, Google, Twitter, and the World Wide Web had in common, van Schewick answers the question.” Christopher Parsons, Review: Internet Architecture and Innovation, Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets, December 1, 2010: http://www.christopher-parsons.com/blog/politics/review-internet-architectur... . “I have a suspicion that this book will become one of the centrepieces for Internet governance literatures in coming years, and likely to be as influential Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom with regards to the economics of the Internet. If issues around Internet governance, innovation, and control are your cup of tea then consider this book an absolute must buy.” Thanks again for including me. 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