Self-Publishing News: Apple Responds to Spotify’s Lawsuit by Releasing Figures on the Firm’s Relationship
Spotify has claimed that Apple is using anticompetitive behaviour in making competitors pay for more than a basic presence in the app store.
Self-publishing News Update: Is Spotify Driving An Overall Increase in the Audiobook Market?
The audiobook market has, as you will all know by now, been growing steadily for a decade. Double digit growth is normal and while in the early days it was de rigueur to point out that this was starting from a very small base, that baseline is now within touching distance of ebooks.
Self-Publishing News: Audiobooks Continue to Increase Market Share
Audiobooks have been growing in popularity for a decade, without much sign of that growth slowing. And, even if Generation Z loves paper books, they are also used to audio-first as the way to get information. But, while the market for audiobooks has been growing, their share of the overall book market has remained low in absolute terms - an inevitable consequence of starting from a very low base.
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.