The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom is a book by law professor Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler is an Israeli-American professor of Law and author. Since 2007, he has been the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.- Biography :In 1984, Benkler...

 published by Yale University Press

Yale University Press

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 on April 3, 2006.

A complete PDF of the book is freely downloadable on the wiki of the book and is available (see HTML version) under a Creative Commons

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 Noncommercial Sharealike license. Benkler has said that his editable online book is "an experiment of how books might be in the future," demonstrating how authors and readers might connect instantly or even collaborate.

External links

• Wiki of the book, summaries, commentary, downloads
• Searchable version in multiple formats ( html, XML, opendocumentODF, pdf (landscape, portrait), plaintext, concordance ) SiSU
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• Audio from Benkler's talk, "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom", given at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law on 27 April 2006.
• Netizens awake, Paul Duguid, The Times Literary Supplement
  The Times Literary Supplement
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  , July 07, 2006.
• outsidethemarket.info (archived copy at http://web.archive.org/), -- a remix of an essay which is based on the book
• Free digitally-voiced audiobook of The Wealth Of Networks at Babblebooks.com