Bookstore Indie Authors Deserve

The Bookstore Indie Authors Deserve: ALLi Members’ Big New Shopfront, with Orna Ross and Melissa Addey

What if discovering strong indie books were as simple—and as trustworthy—as walking into your favorite bookshop? In this episode, Alliance of Independent Authors director Orna Ross and campaigns lead Melissa Addey introduce ALLi’s new Big Indie Author Bookstore. They explain why it was launched now, how it differs from a standard indie author book list, and how it helps members gain greater visibility and credibility. The discussion also looks at how ALLi will work with readers, librarians, bloggers, and booksellers to connect the right readers with the right books.
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ElevenLabs Launches End-to-End Audiobook Production Tool

News Summary: ElevenLabs Launches End-to-End Audiobook Production Tool Following London Summit

ElevenLabs is a company I've reported on a lot, but this time they really are in the spotlight following their recent summit. As a reminder, ElevenLabs is the tech giant that specializes in AI-generated voice production. It sells its services into various sectors, but the area of real interest to us is audiobooks, where the company offers various options for voice narration in different accents of different languages. Most significantly, ElevenLabs works with Findaway Voices by Spotify to enable indie authors (and others) to produce audiobooks for the streaming platform.
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AI Romance Authors

News Podcast: AI Romance Authors Spark Backlash; Piracy Rates Raise Fresh Alarm

On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway examines the controversy surrounding AI-generated romance novels after a New York Times report revealed one author producing hundreds of titles and earning six figures. He also looks at AI’s growing presence in cultural institutions, new legal pressure from UK publishers, and data suggesting piracy remains a major threat to the book market.
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AI Copyright Warning

News Summary: UK Independent Publishers Issue AI Copyright Warning; TikTok Backs National Year of Reading

The first story today brings a real sense of déjà vu. Not just because "another copyright-related legal battle against tech firms" is hardly new. It's hardly déjà vu either: more "here we go again." It's more that the latest action from the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) is strikingly familiar in form to the action we saw from the Society of Authors some time ago.
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Why Recipes For Publishing Success Don't Work

Why Recipes for Publishing Success Don’t Work—and What to Do Instead, with Joe Solari

On the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Joe Solari explores why publishing success formulas so often fail. Drawing on a landmark study of cultural markets, he explains how randomness and social feedback loops mean that even books of similar quality can have wildly different outcomes. The good news? The market isn't locked—new winners emerge constantly. Rather than chasing guaranteed recipes, Solari argues authors should focus on building durable advantages and staying in the game long enough for luck to find them.
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Bookshop.org Expands Into E-Books

News Podcast: Bookshop.org Expands Into E-Books, Audio, and Print with Major New Partnerships

On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway focuses on a wave of developments around Bookshop.org, including its new partnership with Draft2Digital that makes it far easier for indie authors to sell e-books through the platform. He also looks at expanded audiobook options via Libro.fm’s new annual subscription model and a major new partnership with Spotify that connects audiobooks, physical books, and indie bookstores through seamless format switching.
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Market Literary Fiction

How Indie Authors Market Literary Fiction, with Orna Ross

Many literary fiction authors feel caught in the middle, shut out of a traditional literary establishment that foregrounds their genre, but also out of indie advice urging marketing methods that feel misaligned. Orna Ross explores the psychology of literary writers who feel uneasy about selling their work, shares her own marketing shifts as a literary novelist and poet, and explains why literary fiction is not a special case—simply another genre with its own reader psychology and buying behavior.
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