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Speakies Awards

New Speakies Awards Spotlight Indie Audiobooks; Spotify Reports Double-Digit Growth: Self-Publishing with ALLi Featuring Dan Holloway

On this episode of the Self-Publishing News Podcast, Dan Holloway reports that audiobook growth continues across major English-language markets, with Spotify claiming a 30 percent rise in listeners and a 36 percent increase in listening hours year over year. Dan also explores Spotify’s evolving role in the audiobook industry, the launch of the new UK-based Speakies Awards open to indie authors, and a troubling trend reported by the Wall Street Journal—AI-generated search summaries may be reducing ad revenue by diverting clicks away from content creators.
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App Store

Epic Games Ruling Reshapes App Store Payments: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

The aftermath of the ruling in the Epic Games against Apple case continues to play out. The essence of that ruling was that if a company’s app was available through the App Store, then it would now be possible for direct payments to be made to that company through the app without going through Apple’s in-app payment system. What that means in practice is that the days of Apple taking a large (27 percent, I believe) slice of any in-app payments would be over.
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Short-Form Audio

How Indie Authors Are Embracing Short-Form Audio

Short-form audio is becoming a meaningful new outlet for authors. As listening habits shift—and as tools for production become more accessible through human and AI narration—short audiobooks are gaining ground with both readers and platforms. From Spotify’s recent launch of a short-form program for independent authors to new experiments among ALLi members, this format is quickly finding its place in the indie publishing toolkit.
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Mediascout

Ingram Mediascout Offers Film Rights Exposure for Indie Authors: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

In my day job in higher education, I am, like many others, winding down for the holiday season. But in the book world, we seem to have stumbled into a particularly busy time for news. So expect more than one story from each column this week. I begin with particularly exciting news for indie authors looking to extract the maximum return from all of the rights they own in their work. Ingram has just gone live with its Mediascout program.
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Amazon Music

Amazon Music Enters Audiobooks, Spotify Expands, and Tech Giants Launch Imprints: The Self-Publishing News Podcast with Dan Holloway

On this episode of the Self-Publishing News Podcast, Dan Holloway explores major developments in audiobooks, including Amazon Music's move into the market and Spotify's new deal with Bloomsbury. He also discusses ByteDance and Microsoft's ventures into publishing, with ByteDance focusing on BookTok-friendly genres and Microsoft aiming to speed up the publishing process. With tech companies increasingly disrupting the industry, Dan examines what these changes mean for authors.
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Spotify Expands Audiobooks

Spotify Expands Audiobooks with Bloomsbury Deal; Amazon Adds Audible to Music Unlimited: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

I speculated for a while that Spotify was cooling its interest in audiobooks. That seems not to be the case. It has just announced a deal with Bloomsbury to make the publisher’s audiobooks available to “Audiobooks in Premium” subscribers and à la carte purchasers. These include stellar titles like Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.
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