{"product_id":"enshittification-why-everything-suddenly-got-worse-and-what-to-do-about-it-hardcover","title":"Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCory Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnshittification: it's not just you--the internet sucks now. Here's why, and here's how we can disenshittify it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe're living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It's frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnshittification\u003c\/i\u003e identifies the problem and proposes a solution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Cory Doctorow coined the term \u003ci\u003eenshittification\u003c\/i\u003e, he was not just finding a funner way to say \"things are getting worse.\" He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users--and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDoctorow's argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, now, in \u003ci\u003eEnshittification\u003c\/i\u003e the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and--most important--how they can be undone.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCory Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog \u003ci\u003eBoing Boing \u003c\/i\u003efor nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books like this one, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University,\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45176773836879,"sku":"9780374619329","price":27.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/8328\/0463\/files\/3pGWchUNeg9780374619329.webp?v=1778198403","url":"https:\/\/easonbooks.com\/products\/enshittification-why-everything-suddenly-got-worse-and-what-to-do-about-it-hardcover","provider":"EasonBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}