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.
Self-publishing News: Are Bookshops Essential?
What a second lockdown means for bookstores, Bookshop.org launches in UK, and Covid grants for writers in Scotland that's open to indies.
Self-publishing News: Audible Offers Unlimited Subscription
Audible Offers unlimited subscription in Spain, Mailchimp adds AI tools for mailing list, podcasting on Amazon.
Self-publishing News: What Amazon Knows
A BBC documentary looks at what Amazon knows about the way you use your Kindle. New research will look at whether other media poses a threat to reading.
Self-publishing News: The Impact of Overdrive
Audio platforms continue to expand, record numbers of ebooks and audiobooks are downloaded from libraries through Overdrive
Self-publishing News: Audible Captions close to a resolution
The Audible Captions dispute is close to a resolution, which is more than can be said about the controversy engulfing the Romance Writers of America.