Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification
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Audiobook? Bah, I remember when books were for reading.
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Audiobook? Bah, I remember when books were for reading.
Nothing is stopping you from doing that: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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It's spelled "enshittification."
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Ordered.
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Nothing is stopping you from doing that: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
I'm glad to hear that. It's unfortunate that the blurb only described it as an audio book, so I went by without looking into it further.
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Audiobook? Bah, I remember when books were for reading.
"old man yells at cloud"
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I'm glad to hear that. It's unfortunate that the blurb only described it as an audio book, so I went by without looking into it further.
Doctorow doesn't allow DRM on his works (both print and audio) so he can;t distribute through sites lilke Amazon that require it. Instead he runs a kickstarter to pay actual talent to do the audio and distributes through smaller channels.
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Is it about how everyone is using the term wrong and it doesn't mean anything anymore?
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Expected release date: 7 October 2025
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Anyone read other books of his and if so, do you recommend them?
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Anyone read other books of his and if so, do you recommend them?
personally i read "Down and Out in the magic Kingdom" as well as the german translation "Backup", which - while not masterpieces - were quite enjoyable.
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It's spelled "enshittification."
He enshittified my favorite word!
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Audiobook? Bah, I remember when books were for reading.
What? Oral book readings predate regular book reading as a widespread practice by literally thousands of years.
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"old man yells at cloud"
Him being an “old man” would be predicated on his incorrect assumption that the act of having a book read to you is somehow new and is not as old as books themselves.
He’s just a moron lmao
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The first half of the book is great.
The second half has ads that take up more and more of the page until you reach a page that is just ads and a QR code.
When you scan the code, it takes you to a website asking you to pay a subscription for the remaining pages.
(If you rate five stars, they send a 10% discount code to your email and add you to a newsletter list without an unsubscribe button.)
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Is it about how everyone is using the term wrong and it doesn't mean anything anymore?
Why do you think everyone is using the term is wrong? Plenty of words get overused until they become meaningless but I have mainly seen enshittification used to refer to large companies significantly degrading their product in a bid to increase profits which is what I understand it to mean. If it's used a lot, it's because it's happening a lot (often by companies who built their products in the zero interest rate, infinite money era and now have to face the new reality).
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Why do you think everyone is using the term is wrong? Plenty of words get overused until they become meaningless but I have mainly seen enshittification used to refer to large companies significantly degrading their product in a bid to increase profits which is what I understand it to mean. If it's used a lot, it's because it's happening a lot (often by companies who built their products in the zero interest rate, infinite money era and now have to face the new reality).
It's happening to governments too, but they call it austerity.
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Why do you think everyone is using the term is wrong? Plenty of words get overused until they become meaningless but I have mainly seen enshittification used to refer to large companies significantly degrading their product in a bid to increase profits which is what I understand it to mean. If it's used a lot, it's because it's happening a lot (often by companies who built their products in the zero interest rate, infinite money era and now have to face the new reality).
I see it used as "things got worse" a lot but I did a quick search and looks like you're right, on lemmy it's used correctly most of the times.
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The first half of the book is great.
The second half has ads that take up more and more of the page until you reach a page that is just ads and a QR code.
When you scan the code, it takes you to a website asking you to pay a subscription for the remaining pages.
(If you rate five stars, they send a 10% discount code to your email and add you to a newsletter list without an unsubscribe button.)
Do you have any screenshots? And is it the retail version or is it some early version? Retail's supposed to only come out in October.
