Cory Doctorow's "Enshittification" audiobook routes around the very problem it critiques

Remember when Google started as a helpful librarian then became a pushy salesperson? This scenario— enshittification—is an example of how "all the internet platforms we rely on were turning into piles of shit," says Cory Doctorow, who coined the term.

And now Cory, a friend and one of the first editors of Boing Boing, has written a book called Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It (October 7, 2025).

He's selling the audiobook version through Kickstarter to avoid Amazon-owned Audible's DRM straitjacket. If you buy it, you won't have to worry about the audio file getting bricked. You'll get non-enshittified audio you can listen to on any player. 10

From the Kickstarter:

In early August, I spent four days in the booth at Skyboat Media in Los Angeles,