London and Paris. The eponymous cities of the Dickens classic that haunted many a schoolday of mine. Paris, in the throes of a bloody revolution. London, checks Cliff Notes and memory alike and utterly fails to remember. Two and a quarter centuries later, and as book fairs loom in each of those great cities, we again have news from both.

In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi Member Q&A podcast, hosts Michael La Ronn and Sacha Black discuss creative strategies for getting books into independent bookstores, including sending signed copies, bookmarks, and promotional materials to stores that stock your books.

A short while ago, I reported on Audible's new immersion reading initiative. Subsequent to that, Publishing Perspectives had an expansion on the subject that makes it worthy of a revisit. You will recall that Audible now allows people who own e-books and audiobooks of the same title to read and listen at the same time, with features such as highlighting the text of the word currently being narrated.