3 Ways To Respect The "Co" In Consumer. When we look back at 2011, many will remember it as the year of the Occupy Movement, as the representation for the 99% found their voice, aiming to bring about change by influencing the controls of economic wealth and political power.
Meanwhile, earlier in the year, Professor Michael E. Porter of Harvard University published a paper in Harvard Business Review entitled “Creating Shared Value.” His writing focused on the redefinition of capitalism in order to create a value model where both economic and societal benefit is generated. What each of these examples potently illustrate is the real power of our cultural values in society and how the foundations of capitalism, democracy, and consumerism are being profoundly redefined.
For brands the challenge goes far beyond the marketing department and demands a complete rethink about the fundamental relationship between the brand and the end user. Emphasizing The Co In Consumer 1. 2. 3. The New Model Youth. Kindle Fire Sales Kindle Black Friday Black- Bestseller@ Amazon & Target Stores Most-Gifted. Amazon.com sold four times as many Kindle products during Black Friday 2011 than last year, the company announced Monday.
The Kindle Fire remained the bestselling product across all of Amazon since its introduction. Amazon's Kindle lending library is contract breach, say US authors. A Kindle e-reader and conventional paper books.
Photograph: AP American authors are up in arms about Amazon's new Kindle lending library, accusing the online retailer of "boldly breaching its contracts" with publishers as it exercises its "brute economic power". Amazon.com launched its Kindle owners' lending library earlier this month, giving customers with an Amazon Prime membership (which costs $79 a year) the option to borrow one book a month for free, with no due dates. With more than 5,000 titles available, including Michael Lewis's Liars' Poker, Suzanne Collins's bestselling young adult series The Hunger Games trilogy and Howard Jacobson's Booker-winning novel The Finkler Question, the books, said Amazon in its announcement, come from a range of publishers under a "variety" of terms.
Literary agents were quick to condemn the project, releasing a statement saying "it is difficult to see how this programme is in the best interests of our clients". Amazon Introduces Kindle Lending Library. Profile on TED.com. Collaborative Consumption Leader And Unlikely VC Rachel Botsman Will Convince Us All To Share. The Calculus of Collaboration: What We Didn’t Tell You. This article originally appeared on the SnapGoods blog.
Our math was wrong. As I once talked about in front of a crowd of smart New York tech and design folks, humans keep reproducing. There are more people every day (What up, 7 Billi??) And those people (that’d be you and me and us) produce more waste, manufacture and consume more durables, and more rapidly diminish our dwindling resources. But you already knew that. Collaborative Fund. Discover Projects » Technology. Uld 3D printing end our throwaway culture? There's a tiny knob missing from my hands-free car kit, which I keep meaning to replace.
The thing is, I don't think I can buy parts for it, so I probably need to fork out for a whole new system, which, frankly, I'm reluctant to do. Sound familiar? How many broken thingamajigs do you have around your home – and how many items have you chucked out with the rubbish? But what if you could design replacement items such as dishwasher parts, cord pulls and oven knobs, or even invent a new product and then "print" it out? That's right, print it. While you're just processing that concept, let me take you back to the early days of 3D printing, because although this technology may be new to you, major manufacturers have been using it for decades. As with all new technologies, the early adopters were those with the most cash to splash. "3D printing in general has been around since 1986 or thereabouts," says Jake Durrant, senior lecturer at Ravensbourne digital design college. Why The Collaborative Consumption Revolution Might Be As Significant As The Industrial Revolution (TCTV)
Everything, it seems, is becoming collaborative. From Airbnb to RentCycle to Zipcar, we are swapping our cars, our homes, even our clothes with each other. According to Lauren Anderson from Collaborative Consumption, this change might be as profound as the industrial revolution. It will result, she told me when we met at Fast Company’s Innovative Uncensored event, in a world driven by “reputational capital” in which the “We” of the our collaborative age will replace the “Me” of the industrial age. While Anderson might be right, I’m not sure it’s such a great thing for people like myself who aren’t naturally participatory.
Indeed, I find the whole idea of an always-on reputational economy a little creepy – especially since this may not be a world that is able to either forgot or forgive. So is Anderson right – is this shift from the Me to the We as significant as the industrial revolution?