Diversity over quality is now the mantra of all the major cultural producers of the Anglosphere, and the next move is always to tighten the ratchet ever further in the direction of wokery. Far from being crusaders, the Disability Studies nomenklatura are just standing in line for their share of the social justice caviar
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Scribd Opens a Digital Subscription Service in Australia
The Scribd subscription introduced in Australia this week has opened at a price of AU$13.99 and includes audio as well as reading content.
On Swanston Street in Melbourne, February 17, early in a ‘circuit-breaker’ COVID-19 lockdown. Image – iStockphoto: Filed IMAGE
Monthly Subscription: AU$13.99
In a corporate dialect with which we’re all familiar, Scribd today (March 16) says it has opened in Australia a “localized product experience.” What its folks mean by this in messages to the news media, of course, is that the San Francisco-based subscription service, now well into its international expansion, has opened with pricing in local currency and offerings organized for that market.