Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It by Doctorow, Cory
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It by Doctorow, Cory

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It

Enshittification: it's not just you--the internet sucks now. Here's why, and here's how we can disenshittify it....
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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It by Doctorow, Cory

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It

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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It by Doctorow, Cory

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It

$45.89
Author: Cory Doctorow
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Enshittification: it's not just you--the internet sucks now. Here's why, and here's how we can disenshittify it.

We'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.

Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.

When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, 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).

The 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.

Doctorow'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 Black Mirror.

Here, now, in Enshittification 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.

Author: Cory Doctorow
Publisher: MCD
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374619329


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2025 pg. 86
Publishers Weekly 08/11/2025
Booklist 08/01/2025
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2025

About the Author
Cory Doctorow 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 Boing Boing for 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,
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