Pluralistic: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it (31 July 2023)

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Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it: "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" comes out from Verso on Sept 5.
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Pluralistic: How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy (14 June 2023)

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How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy: Monopsony, junk fees and market power.
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Pluralistic: How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it (25 Apr 2023)

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How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it: Most Favored Nation is my least favorite scam.
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Pluralistic: Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk (08 Apr 2023)

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Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk: Ad targeting isn't "efficient."
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Pluralistic: Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell (21 Mar 2023)

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Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell: Narrated by Wil Wheaton!
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Pluralistic: End to End (07 Mar 2023)

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End to End: Willing speakers should reach willing listeners.
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Pluralistic: How monopoly enshittified Amazon/28 Nov 2022

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How monopoly enshittified Amazon: Chokepoint Capitalism ruins everything.
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Pluralistic: 10 Nov 2022 Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy

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Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy: The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Pluralistic: 07 Nov 2022 The good news is that Penguin Random House can't buy all the other publishers

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The good news is that Penguin Random House can't buy all the other publishers: Now for the bad news.
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Pluralistic: 22 Sep 2022 Twitch's Chokepoint Capitalism

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Twitch does a chokepoint capitalism: "Amazon is charging Amazon so much money to run the business via Amazon that it has no choice but to take more money from streamers."
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