Audiblegate Updates #1
This post marks the first in what will be a series of update post combining the most important news and information as the campaign progresses.
Audiobook Publishing Alternatives to ACX: A Comparison
ALLi's Watchdog Desk contrasts ACX and Audible with six rival audiobook distribution services — Author's Republic, Findaway Voices, Kobo Writing Life, Lantern, PublishDrive, and Soundwise — to explore options for authors who wish to reach a wider audience beyond Amazon's walls.
Self-publishing News: Findaway Voices Reaches out to Disgruntled ACX Authors
Findaway Voices offers royalty bonus to authors leaving ACX exclusivity and Draft2Digital offers royalty splitting.
How Audiobook Authors and Narrators are Paid by Audible-ACX. We think.
This is the second in a series of posts about the campaign known to self-publishing authors as #AudibleGate. ALLi would like to extend thanks to Colleen Cross for this post and for her work with the Fair Deal for Rights Holders and Narrators pressure group.
If you haven't already, please sign the #Audiblegate petition here . We will keep you posted as the campaign develops. Now over to Colleen, to explain how audiobook authors and narrators are paid.
Self-publishing News: Rise of Social Reading
Social reading apps continue to expand as Literati raises $40m. Writers & writers' groups respond to Audible's new terms.
Self-publishing News: The Sale of Wattpad
The sale of Wattpad to Naver, Audible's small movement on returns policy, and Rolling Stone's vanity publishing
Calling Out Amazon on Audible Refund Policy: Self-Publishing News Podcast with Dan Holloway and Howard Lovy
ALLi is calling out Amazon on their Audible refund policy, which is resulting in unknown numbers of audiobook authors and narrators around the world being deprived of income. Bookshop.org suffers a glitch, confusing some indie authors, and the end of an era with the end of Book Expo America.
Self-publishing News: Record Year for Comics on Kickstarter
Kickstarter celebrates a record year for comics, Audiblegate latest, Libraries in America need financial Covid support.
ALLi Watchdog Report: How Audible and ACX Betrayed Authors
Audible's Easy Exchange program has turned the platform into a lending library, funded with royalties seized from authors.
Self-publishing News: Audiblegate Ongoing
Writers' organizations unite in condemning ACX/Audible's response over returns, print on demand titles return to Bookshop.org
Self-publishing News: Bookshop’s Disappearing Books
Indie titles disappear from Bookshop.org UK's catalogue and ACX Audible back down over royalties on returns.
Self-publishing News: Audible/ACX Have Questions to Answer over Returns
Audible still have questions to answer over their returns policy, Frankfurt Book Fair will continue to be partly digital.
