Self-publishing News: Journalism in the News as Authors Guild Backs Google Antitrust Suit and Substack Increases Its Offering Authors Guild backs antitrust lawsuit against Google that claims its advertising dominance damages journalism. Read more→
Self-publishing News: KDP Select paid $522m in 2022 – so just how big is the indie ebook market? KDP Select paid $522m in 2022. Wizards of the Coast Agrees to Dungeons and Dragons Creative Commons License. Read more→
Self-publishing News: ChatGPT to Launch Premium Service as Microsoft Set to Invest $10bn in its Parent OpenAI ChatGPT to Launch Premium Paid Service while Microsoft will Invest $10bn in OpenAI Read more→
Self-publishing News: Overdrive Figures for 2022 Demonstrate Digital Popularity Record Overdrive lending figures confirm non-fiction audiobook popularity. Apple launches AI narrated audiobook collection. Read more→
Self-publishing News: Now Someone Has Written and Illustrated a Complete Children’s Book with AI ChatGPT and Midjourney used to write and illustrate a children's book. Waterstones demands 85% discount from publishers, and will streaming content become fee and ad supported rather than subscription-based? Read more→
Self-publishing News: AI is Writing Poetry. Will it Get Good at it in 2023? AI is Writing Poetry. Will it Get Good at it in 2023? And Covid continues to influence the way the book industry does business. Read more→
Self-publishing News: Amazon, Audio, and AI – was 2022 a Triple A Year for Indies? 2022 in Self-publishing: Spotify sells audiobooks, artificial intelligence makes book covers; Amazon changes returns policies. Read more→
Self-publishing News: What Are the Highest Indie Author Earners Doing? How much time indie authors spent marketing in 2022, and concerns grow over the use of AI generated text getting too good. Read more→
Self-publishing News: Author Surveys Show Earnings from Writing are Low and Falling Australian National Author Survey shows author earnings remain low. Bookbeat moves away from all you can eat subscription. Read more→
Self-pub;ishing News: Spotify’s Continuing Audiobooks Roll-out Fails to Smooth out Initial Bumps Spotify's roll-out to English-speaking markets outside the US. ?Half of 16-25 year-old readers say BookTok got them into books. Read more→
Self-publishing News: TikTok Bookshop TikTok sells books in app through TikTok shop. Danielle Steel has nearly sold 1 billion books. Fanfix launches Superlink link in bio service. Read more→
Self-publishing News: Congratulations to Clare Flynn, RNA Indie Champion of the Year Clare Flynn is the Romantic Novelists' Association's Indie Champion 2022. Penguin Random House ruling finds $250,000 advances a major market. Read more→