Bear in mind when Google began as a useful librarian then turned a pushy salesperson? This state of affairs— enshittification—is an instance of how “all of the web platforms we depend on had been turning into piles of shit,” says Cory Doctorow, who coined the time period.
And now Cory, a good friend and one of many first editors of Boing Boing, has written a ebook referred to as Enshittification: Why Every little thing All of a sudden Bought Worse and What to Do About It (October 7, 2025).
He is promoting the audiobook model by means of Kickstarter to keep away from Amazon-owned Audible’s DRM straitjacket. Should you purchase it, you will not have to fret in regards to the audio file getting bricked. You may get non-enshittified audio you possibly can hearken to on any participant.
From the Kickstarter:
In early August, I spent 4 days within the sales space at Skyboat Media in Los Angeles, the fantastic studio that Wil Wheaton launched me to in 2013 once I employed him to report my first unbiased audiobook, Homeland. As soon as once more, I used to be directed by the award-winning, legendary audiobook director Gabrielle De Cuir. As I kind these phrases, the ebook is being mastered by John Taylor Williams of Wryneck Studios, who has edited my podcast and mastered my audiobooks because the mid-2000s. It was a blast, and it is sounding nice.
I will have the ebook within the can and prepared for distribution lengthy earlier than the on-sale date (October 7) and I am assured I can get the ebook to backers day-and-date with the hardcover launch.
Hearken to a pattern right here.
Beforehand:
• Subreddits planning to go darkish over Reddit’s preliminary public enshittification
• Enshittification is coming for all the things
• Cory Doctorow’s new ebook on beating massive tech at its personal recreation
• What being on-line is like now
• Scientists are flocking to Bluesky due to ‘fewer Nazis’
• Twitter’s ‘for you’ feed will present solely paying subscribers
