How long does it take to read The Wealth of Networks?
The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler takes about 9 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 41 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2006. 528 pages, about 145,200 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Yochai Benkler, a law professor, examines how networked digital technology changes the way information and culture are made. He argues that cheaper computing and communication break the older industrial model, in which costly production led to centralized media, and open a networked information economy. In it, individuals and loosely organized groups produce knowledge without markets or hierarchies, an approach he calls commons-based peer production, with free software as an example. The book weighs this shift's consequences for economics, the political role of media, individual autonomy, community, and cultural freedom.
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Subjects: Social aspects, Computer networks, Economic aspects of Computer networks, Information society, Economic aspects, Social aspects of Computer networks
