Indie Manga Alliance Launches

News Podcast: Indie Manga Alliance Launches, Libro.fm Adds E-books, and Readers Fail to Spot AI Stories

On this week's Self-Publishing News podcast, ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway brings two pieces of good news for indie authors: the launch of the Indie Manga Alliance, a new US-based group representing manga creators and publishers outside the mainstream, and Libro.fm's expansion into e-books, giving readers another way to support indie authors and bookstores at the same time. Then he digs into a new Cambridge University Press study, "Bot or Not?", which found that readers not only struggle to tell human-written stories from AI-generated ones — they may actually prefer the AI versions.
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AI-Generated Stories

News Summary: AI-Generated Stories Outperform Human Writing in Reader Ratings

A week is, as the saying goes, a long time in politics. In technology, it is positively an aeon. Just last week, we were talking about the study of more than 14,000 self-published titles by Tuhin Chakrabarty that, while suggesting AI was generating commercial pressure on indie authors, found that sales of titles with signs of AI generation were lower than those of their human-authored counterparts.
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Beta Readers

Audio Interview: How Beta Readers Help Authors See Their Books Through Readers’ Eyes, with Howard Lovy and Elizabeth Gauffreau

On the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, host Howard Lovy talks to novelist, poet, and educator Elizabeth Gauffreau about beta readers — what they actually do, how they differ from developmental editors, and why their real job is reader response, not critique. Drawing on decades of giving and receiving feedback as a writer and teacher, Gauffreau explains how authors can set clear expectations, choose the right readers, sort through conflicting feedback, and know when a reader's gut reaction matters more than being factually right.
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Literary Agents Update Ethics Rules

News Podcast: Literary Agents Update Ethics Rules; Seven-Figure Deal Shelved Over AI Claims; Study Examines AI Books on Amazon

On this episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Dan Holloway covers a turbulent week for AI and publishing: the Association of American Literary Agents updating their Canon of Ethics to allow closer work with indie authors; a seven-figure publishing deal shelved within hours of an AI allegation; and a peer-reviewed study of 14,419 self-published Amazon titles finding that AI-generated books are commercially viable but outsold by human authors — while the number of titles grows twice as fast as revenue.
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AI In Self-Published Amazon Books

News Summary: What the Viral Study of AI in Self-Published Amazon Books Really Sets Out to Do

This story is related to the first of the week. I promise(ish—breaking news depending) no AI on Saturday, but the issues around Tuhin Chakrabarty's hugely impactful study on AI in self-published novels are so important and widespread I think it is warranted. Especially as this great piece in the New York Times brings out another angle of the story (with thanks to Jane Friedman, whose newsletter gifted the link from behind the NYT paywall).
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Inspirational Indie Author Interview: Julie Day

Inspirational Indie Author Interview: Julie Day Turns a Late Autism Diagnosis Into Inspiration for Young Readers

My ALLi author guest this episode is Julie Day, an autistic author and advocate from London who writes children's books featuring autistic characters finding confidence — the kind of books she never had growing up undiagnosed. Her path to indie publishing began with a recurring dream she had to write down, and it carried her through a late Asperger's diagnosis and a life-threatening heart illness she turned into a book to help others. 
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