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