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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News | October 2, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

News Summary: L. J. Ross Shortlisted for British Audiobook Awards; TikTok Deal Approved; Universal Turing Machine Launches

Let’s start with the celebratory news. The shortlists for the first British Audiobook Awards (which are styling themselves as the “Speakies”) have just been released. The categories reflect many of those in the more established Audie Awards across the pond. As is often the case with audiobooks, in some instances it’s tricky to tell which titles are self-published, especially in the “originals” category.
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AAlliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News | September 25, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

News Summary: AAP Reports Audio Surpasses Ebooks; Barnes & Noble Expands, Disney Plus Partners with Webtoon

The latest set of industry figures from the Association of American Publishers (AAP—thanks as always to Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives for reporting the reports) is no more definitive than any other and comes with all the regular caveats about not covering large parts of the market such as ebooks with no ISBN. But it remains of interest.
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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing | News September 18, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

News Summary: ALLi’s SelfPubCon25 to Spotlight New Trends; TikTok Ban Deal Reported

We are gearing up as I write for the autumn/spring (hemisphere-dependent) conference season. Already, many juicy details are emerging about the themes and streams of Frankfurt—more of which as they emerge. But that also means it’s time for the next event of all, and the mustn’t-miss fixture in the indie calendar: ALLi’s own Self-Publishing Advice Conference.
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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing | News September 16, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

News Summary: Anthropic Case Reveals Unregistered Works by Publishers; Apple Hit with New Lawsuit

The class action lawsuit against Anthropic has dominated the news for a while now and looks set to continue to do so. The latest development, uncovered by Jane Friedman, is the light that the ruling about the composition of the class in the class action has cast on the relation between traditionally published authors and their publishers.
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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing | News September 13, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

News Summary: James Patterson Awards $50,000 Grants, AI Research Sparks Debate on Language Change

Would $50,000 landing in your lap give you the breathing space in terms of time and life admin to clear your head and your diary and finally finish the book you’ve been thinking about for years? James Patterson certainly thinks, or at least hopes, so. Last week he announced that he had chosen 12 authors each to be recipients of a “Go Finish Your Book!” grant of that amount. If there is a repeat offer at some point in the future, I will of course update you.
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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News | September 9, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

News Summary: Judge Rejects $3000 Per Title Settlement Figure in Anthropic Case

As a newbie indie writer in the UK, I remember many forum discussions on what seemed a dry topic back in the innocent days of the late 2000s as we tried to grapple with the logistics of what was still a fairly niche path to pursue. That topic was “Given that we are protected by UK copyright law, why would we need to follow the complicated and expensive (many of us were penniless) process of registering copyright with the US Copyright Office?” This broke down into two practical subquestions: “Is it really practical to imagine that we will sue someone for infringing our copyright?” and “What would it actually gain us?”
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