💬 The #booktalk with Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) on his book "Enshittification", hosted last Friday by Internet Archive (@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org) and Authors Alliance, is now available at archive.org/details/cory-docto…

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Book Talk: Enshittification : Internet Archive & Authors Alliance : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Join us for a book talk with Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification, as he unpacks how the internet broke—and how we can fix it.Resources shared:Chat

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:geordiLike: I just learned an important new word from Doctorow's talk, related to stage three of #Enshittification:

#monopsony
mo·nop·so·ny (mə-nŏpsə-nē)
n. pl. mo·nop·so·nies
A market situation in which the product or service of several sellers is sought by only one buyer.
[mon(o)- + Greek opsōniā, purchase of food; see duopsony.]
mo·nop·so·nist n.
mo·nop·so·nis·tic adj.

(American Heritage Dictionary)

🇧🇷🇵🇹 Babylon English-Portuguese:

monopsony
n. monopsonia (em economia — condição na qual um único comprador possui monopólio que o permite estabelecer preços e salários)

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