Reads like a poorly written magazine article that has been unfortunately dragged out into a full-length book. All hype and no substance (how many different ways can he really say, "production has gone digital"?)
I'll be honest and admit I didn't read the whole thing - I set it down halfway through. Was going to read all of it before panning it like this, but decided it wasn't worth the time. Anderson's lack of understanding of the economists he tries to draw on to make his points just became too frustrating for me. For instance, he says "The people now control the means of production." Which isn't true in most of the examples he's talking about - when you ship your designs off to a factory owned by someone else to have them make your invention, then you control the means of design, not the means of production - but beyond that, he actually contradicts himself almost immediately: quoting Eric Reis, he says, "It's not about ownership of the means of production, anymore. It's about rentership of the means of production."
It's sad, because I think there's a kernel of truth in some of what he's saying. But this is really just mock-populist, upper middle class pandering to people who spend too much time on some combination of Etsy, boingboing, and... well I guess, probably on reading Wired.