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Announcing: the Verso Books Tech Sale

40% off books on tech, including The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI and preorders on The Rulers, and 60% off all ebooks, until June 30th.

Verso Books17 June 2026

Announcing: the Verso Books Tech Sale

Our lives are mediated and controlled by increasingly powerful technological systems owned by the ultra-wealthy. Should we struggle to wrestle control of these systems away from them? Or are the technologies themselves a threat to dignified human life?

Seize or destroy, these are books that will help you understand the state of technology - and what should be done.

Through the end of the month, we're offering 40% off the titles listed below and all ebooks site-wide are 60% off.

We're proud to provide DRM-free ebooks, meaning you're free to read them on any platform or device you choose. As Cory Doctorow wrote, "from an author’s perspective, [...] DRM is an invitation to enshittification."

Technology & Society: 40% off

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Top-selling ebooks

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  • The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

    The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

    by Cory Doctorow

    As we enter the age of AI, we are in danger of being reduced to what Cory Doctorow dubs the ‘reverse centaur’. With that term he conjures a human being conscripted as the assistant to a dominant ma...
    Hardback

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  • Enshittification

    Enshittification

    by Cory Doctorow

    *** Longlist for the FT and Schroder Business Book of the Year 2025 ***** Named word of the year in US, UK and Australia ***'Enshittification' will be the most talked about tech book of the year.* ...
    Hardback

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  • The Rulers

    The Rulers

    by Cecilia Rikap

    Capitalism’s rulers are not abstract entities or shadowy operators. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are the cloud hegemons that subsume the world through the exercise of their intellectual monopolies....
  • How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism

    How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism

    by Cédric Durand

    Translated by David Broder

    The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn’t deliver. Today, algorithms are everywhere, but digital monopolies push us towards the feudal logi...
    Paperback

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  • 24/7

    24/7

    by Jonathan Crary

    The bestselling and internationally translated book 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century...
  • The Palestine Laboratory

    The Palestine Laboratory

    by Antony Loewenstein

    Winner of the 2023 Walkley non fiction journalism prizeFinalist for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingIsrael's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as ...
    Paperback

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  • Cyberboss

    Cyberboss

    by Craig Gent

    Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers are instructed, tracked and monitored by increasi...
  • Amateurs!

    Amateurs!

    by Joanna Walsh

    Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of c...
  • Breaking Things at Work

    Breaking Things at Work

    by Gavin Mueller

    In the Nineteenth-century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years the Luddites roamed the English country...
    Paperback

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  • Tokens

    Tokens

    by Rachel O'Dwyer

    Longlisted for the FT Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023 - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GQ, Los Angeles Times, WiredWherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms...
  • Psychopolitics

    Psychopolitics

    by Byung-Chul Han

    Translated by Erik Butler

    Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower...
  • Cutting Edge

    Cutting Edge

    Contributions by Abdul Alkalimat, Michael Brand, George Caffentzis, Guglielmo Carchedi, Martin Kenney, Jonathan King, Sally Learner, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Gerardo Otero, Nelson Perry, Ramin Ramtin, Dan Schiller, Stefanie Scott and Nick Witherford

    Edited by Jim Davis, Thomas Hirschl and Michael Stack

    A robot can build a car. But a robot cannot buy a car ... The explosion in the development of computer- and robot-based manufacturing is seeing the rapid expansion of laborless production systems. ...
    Paperback

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  • NASA/TREK

    NASA/TREK

    by Constance Penley

    This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV show Star Trek to reinforce its public standing. ...
    Paperback

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