Join Library Futures as we host Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow, and Sarah
Lamdan to discuss their respective new books Chokepoint Capitalism
(Beacon Press, 2022) and Data Cartels: The Companies that Control and
Monopolize our Information (Stanford University Press, 2022). This event
will be moderated by Mai Ishikawa Sutton.
In Chokepoint
Capitalism, called a "must-read" by Publisher's Weekly, scholar Rebecca
Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue we’re in a new era of
“chokepoint capitalism,” with exploitative businesses creating
insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value
that should rightfully go to others. By analyzing book publishing and
news, live music and music streaming, screenwriting, radio and more,
Giblin and Doctorow deftly show how powerful corporations construct
“anti-competitive flywheels” designed to lock in users and suppliers,
make their markets hostile to new entrants, and then force workers and
suppliers to accept unfairly low prices.
In the New York Times
notable book Data Cartels, Lamdan contends that privatization and tech
exceptionalism have prevented us from creating effective legal
regulation. This in turn has allowed oversized information oligopolies
to coalesce. In addition to specific legal and market-based solutions,
Lamdan calls for treating information like a public good and creating
digital infrastructure that supports our democratic ideals.
This
unique, dual book event brings together top scholars in the field of
digital rights and libraries, as moderated by Mai Ishikawa Sutton,
Senior Organizer of DWeb projects, co-founder and editor of COMPOST
magazine and Distributed Press, and a contributor with Hypha Worker
Co-operative.
- Buy Data Cartels at Stanford University Press: https://www-sup.stanford.edu/books/title/?id=33205
- Buy Chokepoint Capitalism at their website: https://chokepointcapitalism.com/
- UK Link: https://scribepublications.co.uk/books-authors/books/chokepoint-capitalism-9781915590015
- Buy a limited edition t-shirt! https://www.bonfire.com/library-futures-relx-dont-do-it/
- Progressive Librarians Guild on Elsevier: http://www.progressivelibrariansguild.org/subcontent/elsevier.shtml
- On the Media w/Emily Drabinski: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-infinite-scroll
- Follow the money on library ebooks: https://readsludge.com/2022/03/17/publishing-giants-are-fighting-libraries-on-e-books/
- Read Tim Wu's The Master Switch
- Lina Khan on antitrust: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox
- How to Resist Amazon: https://www.ravenbookstore.com/how-resist-amazon-and-why
- Vocational Awe by Fobazi Ettarh: https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/
- ‘Inoculating law schools against bad metrics’:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3772437
- Books and Crannies: https://www.booksandcranniesva.com/
- OSTP announcement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/ostp-issues-guidance-to-make-federally-funded-research-freely-available-without-delay/
- Local news and library collaboration from Library Futures: https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/first-insights-report-albany-public-library-news-access-pilot-project
- Vice article about libraries launching streaming platforms: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d34px/libraries-are-launching-their-own-local-music-streaming-platforms
- Article on corporate authoritarianism: https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/we-mean-nothing-to-the-company-covert
- Glyn Moody on Walled Culture: https://walledculture.org/interview-glyn-moody/