Rise of Collaborative Consumption

Book: What's Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers (Fall, HarperCollins), 2010

URL = http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com

Description

"Rachel Botsman is a good friend of Shareable.net, and we're really looking forward to this book. "Collaborative Consumption," explain the authors, "occurs when people come together through virtual and real-world communities to share, barter, trade, rent, gift, lend, and swap to get the same pleasures of ownership with reduced personal burden and cost and lower environmental impact. The book travels amongst the quiet revolutionaries (consumers, community organizers and companies) from all around the world who are at the heart of Collaborative Consumption." (http://shareable.net/blog/six-books-in-2010)

Contents

• Introduction: What’s Mine Is Yours xi

• Part 1 Context

1. One Enough Is Enough 3
2. Two All-Consuming 19
3. Three From Generation Me to Generation We 41

• Part 2 Groundswell

1. Four The Rise of Collaborative Consumption 67
2. Five Better Than Ownership 95
3. Six What Goes Around Comes Around 121
4. Seven We Are All in This Together 151

• Part 3 Implications

1. Eight Collaborative Design 183
2. Nine Community Is the Brand 197
3. Ten The Evolution of Collaborative Consumption 209

More Information

• Graphic, Sharing is Contagious, http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1EXQm6/www.good.is/post/sharing-is-contagious-the-rise-of-collaborative-consumption/r:t