If you actually read the Kickstarter page, he’s selling a physical and ebook version of it as well.
Also, maybe practice reading a webpage before you act pretentious about book formats.
Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification
solrize@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Audiobook? Bah, I remember when books were for reading.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Localhorst86@feddit.org 1 month ago
old man yells at cloud
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Him being an “old man” would be predicated on his incorrect assumption that the act of having a book read to you is somehow new and is not as old as books themselves.
He’s just a moron lmao
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What? Oral book readings predate regular book reading as a hobby by hundreds of years.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Yeah, but that was because in those days most people were actually illiterate, which in recent history we considered a bad thing and tried to avoid, but it seems to be making a comeback unfortunately.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not true, even highly educated Roman and Greek elites would attend book readings. It was considered a leisure activity and appreciated it as the performance it was, same as today.
In fact today we have more reasons than ever to listen to audiobooks, the most significant of which is that it’s not legal nor advisable to read a physical book while driving a motor vehicle.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Somehow, I don’t think the original commenter was referring to their memories of ancient Greece or Rome…
Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 1 month ago
Nothing is stopping you from doing that: us.macmillan.com/books/…/enshittification/
solrize@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I’m glad to hear that. It’s unfortunate that the blurb only described it as an audio book, so I went by without looking into it further.
memfree@piefed.social 1 month ago
Doctorow doesn't allow DRM on his works (both print and audio) so he can;t distribute through sites lilke Amazon that require it. Instead he runs a kickstarter to pay actual talent to do the audio and distributes through smaller channels.