Self-publishing News: Overdrive Figures for 2022 Demonstrate Digital PopularityRecord Overdrive lending figures confirm non-fiction audiobook popularity. Apple launches AI narrated audiobook collection. Read more→
Self-publishing News: OverDrive Targeted by Parent Groups in the Latest Library Book Ban DisputeOverdrive is targeted in the latest library book ban row, US Book Show returns, and what does the crypto crash means for indie authors? Read more→
Self-publishing News: Amazon Backs Down Over Threatened Credit Card BanAmazon backs down on threat to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards. RB Media, owner of Overdrive, celebrates record year. Read more→
Self-publishing News: Overdrive Records Half a Billion Digital Lends in 2021People borrowed half a billion times from Overdrive's catalogue last year. Is Spotify set to advertise in your audiobook? Read more→
Self-publishing News: Going Wide is Getting WiderOverdrive, Pratilipi, and Substack offer new opportunities for going wide, and the book industry starts to reopen. Read more→
Self-publishing News: Copyright Protection for Writers Lags Behind Streaming SurgeDelays in implementing copyright directive leaves writers unprotected as streaming services grow. New York libraries win ebook lending rights Read more→
Self-publishing News: Amazon faces ebook Price Fixing SuitAmazon faces ebook price fixing charges, Publishers Weekly launches a platform for indies to get ebooks into libraries. Read more→
Self-publishing News: Android Update uses AI to create AudiobooksAndroid update uses machine learning to generate realistically narrated audiobooks from ebooks. Amazon offers ebooks to libraries. Read more→
Self-publishing News: Concerns over Internet Archive’s ActionsInternet Archive and its National Emergency Library sparks piracy claims, print sales in crisis while Storytel capitalises on digital boom Read more→
Self-publishing News: Ending Sales Tax on EbooksThe end of sales tax on ebooks in the UK and the impact of coronavirus: libraries with a leading role in delivering digital reading and Amazon's priorities. Read more→
Self-publishing News: Overdrive is soldRakuten sells Overdrive to the same equity firm that bought audiobook platform RB Media, and Romance Writers of America implodes. Read more→
Self-publishing News: Educational OpportunitiesEducational publishing offers opportunities for indies, as does the changing way people are reading - more on mobiles, less on ereaders. Read more→