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The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries (open.substack.com)
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Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry

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[–] 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.