Whats Mine Is Yours, Rachel Botsman
Whats Mine Is Yours, Rachel Botsman
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What's Mine Is Yours
The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

Author: Rachel Botsman, Roo Rogers

Narrator: Kevin Foley

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/14/2010

Synopsis

The recent changes in our economic landscape have only exposed and intensified a phenomenon: an explosion in sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping. From enormous marketplaces such as eBay and Craigslist to emerging sectors such as peer-to-peer lending (Zopa), "swap trading" (Swaptree), and car sharing (Zipcar), Collaborative Consumption is disrupting outdated modes of business and reinventing not only what we consume but how we consume.

While ranging enormously in scale and purpose, these companies and organizations are redefining how goods and services are exchanged, valued, and created—in areas as diverse as finance and travel, agriculture and technology, and education and retail. Traveling among global entrepreneurs and revolutionaries and exploring rising ventures as well as established companies adapting to these opportunities, authors Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers outline in bold and imaginative ways how Collaborative Consumption may very well change the world.

Anyone interested in the business opportunities and social power of collaboration will enjoy this smart, timely book.

About Rachel Botsman

Rachel Botsman writes, consults, and speaks on the power of collaboration and sharing, and on how it can transform the way we live. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Oxford and undertook her postgraduate studies at Harvard University. She has consulted to businesses around the world on brand and innovation strategy. As a former director at the William J. Clinton Foundation, she spearheaded major public-private partnerships with Nickelodeon, Rachael Ray, and the NBA. Rachel has lived and worked in the U.K. and the United States, and she currently resides in Sydney, Australia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf

As other examples like collaborative learning, cataloging, creative commons, sharing economy,... collaborative consumption leads the way to a fairer post-scarcity economy. By enabling each human to become a sharer, host, producer, worker, gardener,... and, most importantly, connected with all kind o......more

Goodreads review by Mark

Nicely done. Botsman outlines the surge of businesses using sharing as a viable business model: Zipcar, Airbnb, Swaptree, Thredup, Toy Swap, etc., etc., etc. Being in the line of work that I'm in, sharing comes pretty easily to me but it's thrilling to see the library lending model being adopted in......more

Goodreads review by Daisy

3.5 stars. I applaud Botsman for her optimistic outlook on the rise of collaborative consumption. She is encouraging and positive in her belief that this phenomenon will bring about great socio-economic and environmental changes. However it is hard to gauge how much of this trend is "global" and not......more

Goodreads review by Oana

This book f..king changed my life! Seriously! Although there was nothing exactly new for me in it, seeing old things from new perspectives really made me think about my relationship with things.......more

Goodreads review by Celeste

Loved this. If you want to understand how to put together a bike station rental business like Paris's VELIB, this book is for you. If you are curious how to elevate consumerist philosophy into collaborative consumer consumption with a shift to service-based orientation (versus product-based manufact......more

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