Cory Doctorow Explains Why Amazon is 'Way Past Its Prime'

Cory Doctorow Turned His Word of the Year Into a Whole Book – Pixel Envy

In January 2023, Cory Doctorow described the way social media evolves, eventually broadening the theory and giving it the name “enshittification”: Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. It did not matter that Doctorow’s original essay is b…

Cory Doctorow on Amazon's 'enshittification' | Philip Elmer‑DeWitt

From Doctorow's "Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?" posted Sunday by The Guadian.

Cory Doctorow Explains Why Amazon is 'Way Past Its Prime'

"It's not just you. The internet is getting worse, fast," writes Cory Doctorow. Sunday he shared an excerpt from his upcoming book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. He succinctly explains "this moment we're living through, this Great Enshittening" using Amazon as an example. Platforms amass users, but then abuse them to make things better for their business customers. And then they abuse those business…