Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification

• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well yeah, because the original commenter wasn’t referring to their memories of any period of time, because the period of time they’re referring to doesn’t exist.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It existed in the 90s and early 00s when I was growing up, before streaming tech took over audio books.

    Just because the concept of reading books out loud already existed, doesn’t mean that they don’t remember a time when it wasn’t more popular than just reading.

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It existed in the 90s and early 00s

      I was around in the 90s and early 00s and I can assure you it very much did not. The popularity of audiobooks grew significantly in the 90s. Books on tape had been a thing for awhile already and the popularity of audiobooks on CD exploded in the early to mid 90s. You could buy or even rent them from music stores, libraries, video stores, even supermarkets. They even had little listening stations where you could hear the first chapter of popular books before buying them.

      In 1995 Audible was founded and brought about the advent of digital audiobooks downloaded from the internet which only accelerated their popularity. By the time the 00s started audiobooks were a multi billion dollar industry.

      doesn’t mean that they don’t remember a time when it wasn’t more popular than just reading.

      Well that’s also a misunderstanding of the history of Audiobooks because I believe even now I don’t believe audiobooks are more popular than reading physical books.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m just puzzled… I mean yeah, no shit, people read books out loud all of the fucking time, particularly before literacy became so common.

        But what is the point? What is it that you actually thought I meant with my previous comment? That oral tradition didn’t exist in the 90s?

        Because it seems like that’s the point you’re arguing against.

        I thought it was pretty clear that I meant more people tended to read than listen to audio books in the 90s.

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      • MalMen@masto.pt ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        @EncryptKeeper @prole I didnt understood the last parte, you are saying that audiobooks are not more popular than reading but more people listen to audiobooks than reading?

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