Library-Based Kanopy Offers a Solution to Streaming Sticker Shock—And Steps Into Film Production

In the beginning of this year, Netflix raised its prices a dollar or two, depending on your subscription tier. Amazon Prime Video became ad supported by default while increasing their ad load; watching it ad-free—to which many of us have grown accustomed—now costs an extra three bucks a month. Paramount+ increased its prices in the middle of last year, as did Peacock. Streaming our anxieties—financial and otherwise—has become an increasingly pricey affair.

Meanwhile, libraries—those stalwarts...