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With interop, you can break up with Amazon, and still keep your audiobooks.

So, if interop is so great, why isn't it everywhere?

Well, it *used* to be. Interop is how Microsoft became the dominant operating system:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay

It's how Apple saved itself from Microsoft's vicious campaign to destroy it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay

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Adversarial Interoperability: Reviving an Elegant Weapon From a More Civilized Age to Slay Today's Monopolies

Today, Apple is one of the largest, most profitable companies on Earth, but in the early 2000s, the company was fighting for its life.

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What's more, this book explains *how* to get these policies: what existing legislative, regulatory and judicial powers can be invoked to make them a reality. We are living through the Great Enshittification, and crises erupt every ten seconds, and when those crises occur, the "good ideas lying around" can move from the fringes to the center in an eyeblink:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/12/only-a-crisis/#lets-gooooo

After all, we've known Big Tech was rotten for *years*, but we had no idea what to do about it.

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It got so bad I put up an audiobook on Amazon - me, reading an essay, explaining how Audible rips off writers and readers. It's called "Why None of My Audiobooks Are For Sale on Audible":

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff

To get my audiobooks into readers' ears, I pre-sell them on #Kickstarter.

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This has been *wildly* successful, both financially and as a means of getting other prominent authors to break up with Amazon and use crowdfunding to fill the gap. Writers like #BrandonSanderson are doing heroic work, smashing Amazon's monopoly:

https://www.brandonsanderson.com/guest-editorial-cory-doctorow-is-a-bestselling-author-but-audible-wont-carry-his-audiobooks/

And to be frank, I *love* audiobooks, too.

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Guest Editorial: Cory Doctorow is a Bestselling Author, but Audible Won't Carry his Audiobooks | Brandon Sanderson

Hey, everyone. I hope you'll be willing to read another post about the problems with Audible and the current audiobook landscape. It has been a few mon ...

^{Octavia Escamilla (Brandon Sanderson)}