From the author: My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation: it’s a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio.
Amazon requires DRM, which Doctorow considers anathema. Since the author won’t allow DRM on his works, Amazon refuses to sell them.
In fact, the author, in order to be found in Audible search results, penned an essay explaining how Audible rips off writers and readers. It’s called “Why None of My Audiobooks Are For Sale on Audible”.
One of the publishers I narrate for, Hedon Press, has run afoul of Amazon / Audible. I just learned that 11 audiobooks I narrated are being taken down. (Yes, it's rotten.) I'm in talks with Audible, more on that as I know more.
The audiobooks are for the moment still for sale through Apple Books. If you want them, get them FAST before they're gone for good.
I cannot in good faith recommend that anyone sign a contract through ACX to be paid in whole or in part in royalties because ACX/Audible is prepared to take down audiobooks without warning to narrators and leave us no recourse to be paid for our work.
I'm horrified that this is the outcome of my case. Please avoid this situation for yourselves.
Cory Doctorow: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it (pluralistic.net)
From the author: My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation: it’s a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio.