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Paris Book Festival

News Podcast: Paris Book Festival Drops Amazon Sponsorship; Audible Launches Lower-Cost Subscription Plan

On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway reports from London Book Fair week and covers a dispute at the Paris Book Festival that led Amazon to withdraw its sponsorship after protests from French booksellers. He also examines Audible’s new lower-priced subscription plan and what it could mean for listeners and author royalties, and looks at the expansion of the Authors Guild’s Human Authored certification program.
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Audible Launches Cheaper Standard Plan

News Summary: Audible Launches Cheaper Standard Plan to Challenge Spotify’s Audiobook Growth

The recent run of new offerings from audiobook platforms keeps on going. It's reached the stage where even TechCrunch (who are, as the name suggests, more a tech than a publishing outlet) are openly calling this an open battle for market share between Audible and Spotify. And are suggesting that Spotify's remarkable growth in the short time (four years) since they launched their audiobook offering has got Audible flustered.
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