Newsletter 142. Think paying to escape ever-shittier monopolies is the way out? You might not like where that ends up. Plus, women subverting the publishing establishment; escaping the author spending spiral, three people to follow, three books to read, and one way to jumpstart your writing career. You can’t pay to escape enshittification forever Everything…
Newsletter 120. Why enshittification is this century’s most important economic trend, getting beyond AI hype and counter-hype, a new imprint for Hollis Heimbouch, plus three people to follow and three books to read. Is enshittification reversible? The essayist and novelist Cory Doctorow just published the most significant economic treatise of the Twenty-first Century. It’s called…
The self-publishing platform Spines announced cheap packages that will use AI to rapidly edit, design, and publish 8000 books next year. Or perhaps I should use scare quotes around “edit” and “design,” because with AI doing the work, these are only simulacra of actual human creative activities. If you care about your reputation, you must…