Audible Launches Netflix-Style Audiobook Services in Spain and Italy
Just under a month ago Amazon launched a limited “all you can listen” service in the US called Audible Plus. It cost $8 per month and...Continue reading
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Audible Escape is Being Shut Down on 1 November
Audible sent out an email on Tuesday, informing authors and users that it was shutting down Audible Escape subscription service. (Thanks, Isobel!) Here’s the email that...Continue reading
Audible Plus Offers Unlimited Access to Exclusive Content for $8 Per Month
Amazon subsidiary Audible just announced that it is launching its third unlimited subscription audiobook service. The service is called Audible Plus, and will cost $7.95 per...Continue reading
Blurb Acquired by Business Partner
Blurb has been acquired by Reischling Press: Reischling Press, Inc. (RPI), a pioneer in the personalized print services market, has acquired Blurb, an industry-leading e-commerce platform...Continue reading
NetGalley Will Soon Offer Audiobook ARCs
The ARC service NetGalley has distributed ebooks for almost as long as the Kindle has been around, and soon they will also be distributing audiobooks. NetGalley...Continue reading
OverDrive to “Acquire” Part of RBmedia
Overdrive just announced they are “buying” part of RBmedia RBdigital, although given that both companies are owned by KKR, this is really more of a reorganization...Continue reading
Audible is Retiring One of Its Older Audiobook File Formats
Earlier this week a less than reliable blog reported that Audible was “moving to an enhanced ebook format”. Unlike that blog’s “exclusive hardware leaks”, there was...Continue reading
The WordToEpub App Lets You Make Epub 3 eBooks in Windows
I am a big fan of tools that let you make ebooks (fun fact: none of Amazon’s Kindle creation tools qualify). I in fact have a...Continue reading
Amazon No Longer Pays Royalties on Audiobooks Redeemed With ACX Promo Codes
For the longest time now Amazon has provided authors and publishers who distributed their audiobooks though ACX with promo codes that could be given to reviewers,...Continue reading
Goodreads Doesn’t Think Audiobooks are Books
Wikipedia has an ongoing problem where its more sexist editors constantly question whether a woman is “notable” enough to merit a page on the site. This...Continue reading
UK to End VAT on eBooks (But Not Audiobooks)
After a decade of lobbying bu authors and book publishers, the UK government announced this week that the Value Added Tax collected on the sale of...Continue reading
IngramSpark Announces New Quality Standards for Its POD Service
IngramSpark, the self-publishing division of the book distributor Ingram Content Group, sent out an email today informing users of a new policy intended to reduce misleading...Continue reading
Amazon is Extending the Audible Caption Settlement to All Publishers and Authors – Will You Disable This Feature?
I am sure that you have seen the news this past week about Audible Captions, and how Amazon has settled the lawsuit by agreeing to give...Continue reading
Publishers Threw the Public Under the Bus in Their Win Over Audible Captions
We still don’t know the specifics of the settlement agreement that ended the lawsuit that seven publishers filed against Amazon over Audible Captions, but one thing...Continue reading
Audible Settles with Publishers in Audible Caption Lawsuit
Remember that lawsuit from last August over Audible’s new captioning feature, the feature that everyone is publishing was soooo absolutely certain was infringing on copyright? Well,...Continue reading