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The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries (open.substack.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social to c/books@lemmy.ml

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Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry

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[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're definitely among the worst of the worst. It's always surprised me how comparatively sterile their wiki page is. Feels like they've got someone cleaning it up.

[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be surprised - they have plenty of money to pay someone to keep that page clean.

I also found out after this post that they're in the active process of acquiring Simon and Schuster. Cory Doctorow (aka @pluralistic) has a great writeup on them here.