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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News July 15, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

News Summary: Radish to Shut Down by End of 2025 After Nearly a Decade of Serialized Fiction

Before I started this post, I thought I would look back at the things I’ve said about Radish over the years. It turns out that although I’ve covered the serial fiction reading platform quite a few times, most of those were in 2021 and relate to the platform’s acquisition by Korean entertainment giant Kakao for north of $400 million. Aside from that, I’ve tended to use them as one of a list of similar platforms all doing similar things—bringing readers small but regular chunks of serialized fiction.
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Alliance Of Independent | Authors | Self-Publishing | News | July 1, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

News Summary: EU Accessibility Act Takes Effect, Raising the Bar for Digital Publishing Standards

I decided I should probably write this entry while listening, with bleary-eyed nostalgia, to New Order. Because this story quite simply evokes the line, “I used to think that the day would never come.” I have been writing about the European Union’s Accessibility Act for years now. Such is the way with European legislation—its journey into law has more hidden levels than Super Mario Brothers.
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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News June 24, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

Romance Drives Fiction Boom and Audiobooks Surge: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

'Tis the season to celebrate audiobook growth, it seems. So what better way to mark the solstice—when the city is full of folk dancers and the countryside is full of all manner of people doing all manner of things to mark the longest (or shortest, depending upon your hemisphere) day—than to report on yet another set of industry figures that points to the health of the audio market?
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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News June 19, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

Spotify Reports Audiobook Growth; AI Search Summaries Cut Publisher Traffic: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

Spotify is doing well and helping publishers in the process—or so says the latest release from, er, Spotify. Despite the obvious possible messiah complex going on, there are some really interesting and encouraging figures in the report. The catalog of English-language audiobooks now exceeds 400,000, which shows the scale of the operation.
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Self-publishing News: Our Digital Future

A new paper from Frankfurt Book Fair makes the case that in a digital world, publishing will move in the direction of subscription and serialisation. The European Union rolls back on legislation to require us all to police every guest post we upload, and Amazon announces this year's Prime Day.
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