Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it
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Re: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it
#2I bought donated for this book yesterday - I am looking forward to getting the book.
My comment yesterday on Mastodon:
@pluralistic I just listened to the 8 minute audio teaser, signed up for libro.fm, and joined your kickstarter. I feel like I am trapped in Apple’s walled garden, but I am at least looking for a window to open!
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#3Related to this, Cory Doctorow's appearance on Future Tense podcast (Australia) is truly excellent.
After being introduced, he goes on an 8-minute disquisition. We should all aspire to rap tech like Cory Doctorow can.
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#4The kickstarter page is much more informative than this article: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-c...
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#5I have a hard time getting behind some of these criticisms of audible and the like.
Its annoying, as I am against most DRM schemes out there. But to pretend those came from "big tech" is laughable, at best. A ridiculously large portion of "tech" is perfectly fine with sending copies everywhere. Is literally how many of us get our operating system. Music files and shareware copying were huge before the internet. Mod files and other demoscene music sharing was a ton of fun.
Specifically to audible, to complain about their margins without acknowledging that they have built a large part of the market feels dishonest. I remember audio books before audible. Usually ~50 bucks for book. As such, I owned maybe 1. So, congrats, the folks on them could get more of a percent of far far fewer purchases. Getting things for lower cost is exactly why I get more of them. Such that artists have gotten more from me, even with the lower margin to them, from audible than they ever got before. Wanting the same large cut of a smaller sell is entitlement on both ends.
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#6I have a hard time getting behind some of these criticisms of audible and the like. Its annoying, as I am against most DRM schemes out there. But to pretend those came from "big tech" is laughable, at best. A ridiculously large portion of "tech" is perfectly fine with sending copies everywhere. Is literally how many of us get our operating system. Music files and shareware copying were huge before the internet. Mod f…
I actually think Audible is pretty good. I would feel better about buying from them if it wasn’t fully owned by Amazon. Are there any good alternatives out there?
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#7The kickstarter page is much more informative than this article: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-c...
That video is well worth the 3m watch, thank you!
Re: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it
#8I have a hard time getting behind some of these criticisms of audible and the like. Its annoying, as I am against most DRM schemes out there. But to pretend those came from "big tech" is laughable, at best. A ridiculously large portion of "tech" is perfectly fine with sending copies everywhere. Is literally how many of us get our operating system. Music files and shareware copying were huge before the internet. Mod f…
> But to pretend those came from "big tech" is laughable, at best.
I'm curious about how old you are. Tech's obsession with DRM (then called "copy protection") started in 1975¹, and IIRC as of the late 70s/early 80s basically all software of note had DRM.
Re: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it
#9I have a hard time getting behind some of these criticisms of audible and the like. Its annoying, as I am against most DRM schemes out there. But to pretend those came from "big tech" is laughable, at best. A ridiculously large portion of "tech" is perfectly fine with sending copies everywhere. Is literally how many of us get our operating system. Music files and shareware copying were huge before the internet. Mod f…
I actually think Audible is pretty good. I would feel better about buying from them if it wasn’t fully owned by Amazon. Are there any good alternatives out there?
Gutenberg has some. Perhaps I need to help by reading the classics out loud... into a microphone... and uploading them.
Re: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it
#10I have a hard time getting behind some of these criticisms of audible and the like. Its annoying, as I am against most DRM schemes out there. But to pretend those came from "big tech" is laughable, at best. A ridiculously large portion of "tech" is perfectly fine with sending copies everywhere. Is literally how many of us get our operating system. Music files and shareware copying were huge before the internet. Mod f…
> But to pretend those came from "big tech" is laughable, at best. I'm curious about how old you are. Tech's obsession with DRM (then called "copy protection") started in 1975¹, and IIRC as of the late 70s/early 80s basically all software of note had DRM. ¹ https://archive.is/b8rK9
We tech people are only obsessed with routing around DRM... it's management that is obsessed with DRM.