Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It
versobooks.com ↗Enshittification, by Cory Doctorow (Verso, October 2025).
For anyone leaving Big Tech who wants to understand why the old service went downhill.
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Why it’s listed
Why platforms get worse once they've locked users in, and what laws, interoperability and switching can do about it.
Listed because it's the clearest recent book on the problem this site exists to solve, reviewed by the New York Times1 and Kirkus2. Doctorow crowdfunded a DRM-free audiobook because Amazon's Audible won't sell audiobooks without DRM3.
The trade-off
The title word may put some readers off, and US and UK editions come from different publishers.
Price
Hardback, 352 pages (Verso, ISBN 9781836742227); UK price not verified.
