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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News | June 7, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

Audiobook Sales Climb Back to Double-Digit Growth, Topping $2.22 Billion: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

Remember those heady days when I reported on double-digit audiobook sales growth for a decade straight? Well, it seems that we have, however temporarily, returned to that time. The Audio Publishers Association has just launched its annual Sales Survey (by Toluna) and Consumer Survey (by Edison), and the results suggest that the audiobook industry is, at least on the surface, in a healthy state.
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Alliance Of Independent | Authors | Self-Publishing | News | May 31, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

BookBub Survey Finds Indie Authors Divided on AI Use, Ethics Still a Major Concern: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

Surveys are always great reading. They have more or less value in terms of understanding the challenging landscape, largely depending on their sample size and the transparency around it. This week we have a survey that’s both interesting and enlightening—and on the becoming-perennial subject of authors’ attitudes toward AI. It comes courtesy of a BookBub survey. This means that the kind of authors represented will be very like a sizeable portion of the cohort of indie authors. Indeed, 69 percent of authors who responded to the survey only self-publish, and 25 percent were hybrid.
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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News May 27, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

Creators Urge Stronger AI Rules as UK Drops Transparency Amendment; Anthropic’s Claude Raises Alarm: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

Regulation and legislation might have struggled historically to keep pace with technology. AI is no different, but in the past few months, it has been a consistent narrative that various legislative regimes across the world have set themselves on markedly different courses—particularly when it comes to the relative protection and promotion of the creative and technological industries, and in some cases, the introduction or rejection of a transparency amendment.
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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News May 22, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

UK Rejects Copyright Transparency in AI Bill; Epic Takes Apple Back to Court: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

Legal shenanigans is the theme for today’s set of stories. First up, we have prospective legislation—specifically, proposed UK legislation on AI. This is something I feel like I have been following for some time. Those who have been following along will know that the UK has tended, especially under the previous administration, to take a much more tech-friendly approach than elsewhere in Europe.
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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News May 13, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

Epic Games Ruling Reshapes App Store Payments: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

The aftermath of the ruling in the Epic Games against Apple case continues to play out. The essence of that ruling was that if a company’s app was available through the App Store, then it would now be possible for direct payments to be made to that company through the app without going through Apple’s in-app payment system. What that means in practice is that the days of Apple taking a large (27 percent, I believe) slice of any in-app payments would be over.
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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News May 10, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

Apple Loosens App Store Rules; EU Publishers Call for AI Transparency: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

We end the week with a round-up of several small but nonetheless important stories. The biggest of those relates to the recent legal developments in the Epic Games and Apple case. The US courts have ruled that Apple must allow apps to link to external payment sites outside of the US App Store. Apple is appealing the decision, which would stop them from slicing off a 27 percent commission on purchases made through apps from the App Store, but in the meantime, they are having to comply.
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