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Spotify Gets Ready To Go Big On Audiobooks; IBPA Sets New Guidelines for Hybrid Publishers: Self-Publishing News Podcast with Dan Holloway and Howard Lovy

Today on Self-Publishing News: Spotify gets ready to go big on audiobooks, and they're working with writers to "innovate and create something that is different.” Also, IBPA has set new guidelines for hybrid publishers, and artificial intelligence is now creating cover art—making many artists nervous.

Self-publishing News: Spotify Launches Audiobooks. Join in through Findaway Voices

Cover designers and others speak out about the use of and training for AI-generated art on platforms like Midjourney.

Self-publishing News: Spotify Ready for Audiobook Trials

Spotify is ready to start audiobook trials. Waterstones’ continuing warehouse wobbles. Writers receive basic income in Ireland.

Self-publishing News: OverDrive’s Sora delivers 100 million downloads to school libraries in 4 years

100 million school library downloads in 4 years don’t appear in many official figures and Spotify’s $100m+ price for Findaway.

Spotify Rewrites Audiobook Sales Rules, Buys AI Narration Tool: Self-Publishing News Podcast with Dan Holloway and Howard Lovy

Today on Self-Publishing News: Spotify rewrites the rules on audiobook sales by ditching the subscription model and going à la carte. Also, Spotify buys an AI narration tool, but is artificial intelligence really ready to take over from human narrators?

Self-publishing News: Breakthrough Indie Success

A breakthrough success for indie authors in Australia's Miles Franklin Award. New Royal Literary Society Fellowships open to indies.

Self-publishing News: Spotify to Move From Subscription and Sell Individual Audiobook Titles

Spotify plans to sell individual audiobook titles and a new award for disabled writers open to indie authors.

Self-publishing News: Draft2Digital Acquires Smashwords

Book fairs move back to exhibition halls, Amazon Prime raises price, Audie Awards success for indie Mary Jane Wells.

Self-publishing News: Publishers Criticise EU’s Watered Down Attack on Piracy

The EU's Digital Services Act waters down anti-piracy amendments. Print costs rise 40% in 3 months. Pandemic consumer trends are ending.

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 2021: Subscription’s Breakthrough Year and a Time of New Technology

2021 in self-publishing saw Spotify buy Findaway, the rise of all you can eat subscription, NFTs and digital narration.

A Report from the Futurebook Conference; Spotify Buys Findaway in Audiobook Game-Changer: Self-Publishing News Podcast with Dan Holloway and Howard Lovy

Dan Holloway reports from the Futurebook conference, and the future belongs to audio. Also, Spotify buys Findaway in a potential audiobook game-changer.