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.
Self-publishing News: Futurebook 2021 – Very Different Visions of the Future of Audio
At Futurebook 2021 audiobook subscription was a big focus, with large publishers seeing it as a threat while many saw it as a boon for consumers.