About This Book
Enshittification (2025) explains why so many essential online services are deteriorating at the same time. It breaks down the four-stage strategy platforms use to lure users, lock them in, and systematically extract value – ultimately leaving behind a degraded product that primarily serves the platform itself. You’ll discover the specific economic and legal decisions that caused this decay – and the concrete, actionable steps we can take to reverse it.
Who Should Read This?
- Tech users frustrated with declining online services
- Digital activists and policy-makers seeking concrete solutions
- Gig workers and online sellers feeling squeezed by platforms
About the Author
Cory Doctorow is a journalist and activist who worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for more than twenty years on digital human rights. He maintains the daily newsletter Pluralistic.net. His other nonfiction titles include Chokepoint Capitalism and The Internet Con.
