[p2p-research] Fwd: Comment on The Ten Best P2P Books of 2010, Internet Architecture and Innovation. Barbara van Schewick. MIT Press, 2010

[Michel Bauwens]

for wrap up, see also:
http://p2pfoundation.net/Internet_Architecture_and_Innovation

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From: Barbara van Schewick <schewick at stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Subject: Comment on The Ten Best P2P Books of 2010
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


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-architecture-and-innovation/
.
“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.

Best,
Barbara

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Barbara van Schewick
Associate Professor of Law and (by Courtesy) Electrical Engineering
Director, Center for Internet and Society
Stanford Law School

Author of "Internet Architecture and Innovation," MIT Press 2010
www.netarchitecture.org

Crown Quadrangle
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA94305-8610

Phone:  650-723 8340
E-Mail: schewick at stanford.edu




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