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Indie Authors’ Audiobooks Are/Were Getting Dragooned Into Kindle Unlimited Without Permission or Payment

8 August, 2018 // 0 Comments

If you are an indie author with ebooks in Kindle Unlimited and audiobooks sold through Audible, you should check to see if the latter have been pressed into Kindle Unlimited when you weren't looking. [Read More ...]

Amazon Just Changed Audible’s New Subscriber Bounties

4 August, 2018 // 6 Comments

Amazon just changed one of the bounties it pays on new Audible subscribers to bring it more in line with how Amazon's other bounties are awarded. Scott Carney brought my attention to the news that [Read More ...]

How Do You Listen to Audiobooks?

26 July, 2018 // 18 Comments

The recent revelation of Google making a play for the audiobook market with DRM-free audiobooks got me curious about audiobook consumption. Do you listen to audiobooks? How? I don't, and after being [Read More ...]

Createspace DVD/CD Production is Shutting Down, With Accounts Moving to Amazon Media on Demand

25 July, 2018 // 4 Comments

Amazon just hammered another nail into Createspace's coffin. The retailer sent out an email this morning to select Createspace users, informing them that Createspace's disc production unit was [Read More ...]

How to Download Audiobooks from Google Play Books – DRM-Free!

23 July, 2018 // 4 Comments

When Google started selling audiobooks in Play Books back in January I was quick to dismiss their service because the audiobook experience was simply awful. It was so bad that I concluded "Google [Read More ...]

Audiobook Distributor RBMedia Has Been Sold – And Not to Rakuten

17 July, 2018 // 0 Comments

Along with Findaway and Blackstone Audio, RBMedia is one of several small audiobook distributors operating in the shadow of Amazon's Audible. RBMedia was sold yesterday to private equity firm KKR. [Read More ...]

KDP Print Expands Its Distribution Network to Include US Bookstores

10 July, 2018 // 3 Comments

Amazon just eliminated one of the few differences between its two POD platforms. Yesterday they announced that authors and publishers who use KDP Print can get their print distributed to US [Read More ...]

New Estimates Suggest $2.5 Billion Were Spent on Audiobooks in the US in 2017

25 June, 2018 // 3 Comments

The APA (Audio Publishers Association) released a new report last week that showed audiobooks generated $2.5 billion in sales in the USA last year, up 22.7% over 2016. The report is based on 1,009 [Read More ...]

Has Anyone Heard that Amazon is Merging Createspace into KDP Print (?)

21 June, 2018 // 13 Comments

Amazon is about to throw a wrench in authors' carefully made plans. Reports are coming in that some time in the next month, Amazon will be sending Createspace users an email informing them that [Read More ...]

Google Launches a Podcast App for Android

20 June, 2018 // 5 Comments

There are currently more podcast-playing apps than you can shake a stick at, but that's not enough for Google. In its bid to collect as much data bout you as possible, Google has launched its own [Read More ...]

Amazon to Launch Audible in India in November (?)

13 June, 2018 // 0 Comments

Following three years of development, rumors are coming in that Amazon plans to launch Audible in India in November. So says The Economic Times: Amazon plans to debut its audio book and [Read More ...]

Book Printer File For Bankruptcy, Stiffs Customers on Outstanding Orders

8 June, 2018 // 1 Comment

When book printer Edwards Brothers Malloy announced last week that it was winding down its operations and would complete all outstanding jobs. It's with heavy hearts we announce that Edwards Brothers [Read More ...]

Amazon Continues to Pay Unfairly Low Royalty Rate in Audible Romance, But is Finally Letting Authors Out of the Program

22 May, 2018 // 6 Comments

Amazon still hasn't fixed the ongoing fiasco that is Audible Romance. The new royalty payments for Q2 2018 today are still unreasonably low, but on the upside Amazon has allowed some authors to [Read More ...]

Audible is Giving Away a Kindle With New Annual Membership

30 April, 2018 // 0 Comments

During Audible's early years it would frequently offer discounts or bundles that combined an MP3 player and an Audible subscription. Those bundle offers petered out over the years, although Amazon [Read More ...]

Hackers Now Targeting Author Accounts on Createspace

17 April, 2018 // 6 Comments

If you have an account on Createspace then you might want to change your password - and while you're at it, double check your payment details. There has been no public discussion yet, but I have read [Read More ...]

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