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IngramSpark Announces New Quality Standards for Its POD Service

25 February, 202025 February, 2020POD3 Comments

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...

Amazon is Extending the Audible Caption Settlement to All Publishers and Authors – Will You Disable This Feature?

9 February, 20209 February, 2020Amazon, Audiobook10 Comments

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...

Publishers Threw the Public Under the Bus in Their Win Over Audible Captions

7 February, 20208 February, 2020Amazon, Audiobook13 Comments

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...

Audible Settles with Publishers in Audible Caption Lawsuit

15 January, 202015 January, 2020Amazon, Audiobook5 Comments

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,...

Amazon Launches Audible Suno App in India

8 January, 20208 January, 2020Amazon, Podcast5 Comments

Amazon launched a new audiobook app in India about a month ago. The Audible Suno app, which is available exclusively in India, features more than 60...

KDP Print Expands to Canada

22 October, 201922 October, 2019Kindle (platform), POD, Self-PubOne Comment

Amazon's POD service has expanded into the land of moose and snow. The retailer announced in the KDP support forums last week that KDP Print could...

November is National Podcast Post Month – Why Not Launch One?

22 October, 201922 October, 2019PodcastLeave a comment

Everyone knows (in my circles, anyway) that November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. This is an annual event where aspiring authors commit to writing...

How to Vet Podcast Guests

10 October, 201912 October, 2019Podcast5 Comments

I am in the early stages of launching a podcast called The Website in a Box show. My show is going to explain why websites are...

How to be a Better Podcast Guest (Updated)

10 October, 201910 October, 2019interview, Podcast5 Comments

Virtually every marketing expert agrees that if you want to get your message out there in 2018, podcasts are the way to go. We're told...

Did You Know Calibre Can Make Epub 3 eBooks?

6 October, 20196 October, 2019Epub36 Comments

I was working on the calibre 4.0 post this morning when I discovered a new calibre feature. Well, it's not new so much as I hadn't...

AAP Files Doomed Lawsuit Over Audible’s Caption Feature, Alleges Copyright Infringement

23 August, 201923 August, 2019Amazon, Audiobook, Lawsuit9 Comments

When detractors complained after Audible launched Audible Captions last month, I asked myself how anyone could know that this feature infringed on copyrights when no one...

Publishers’ Audiobook Sales Increased 24% in 2018

18 July, 201918 July, 2019AudiobookOne Comment

The Audio Publishers Association released the results of a survey yesterday that showed audiobook sales for a limited group of publishers totaled $940 million in 2018, up...

Audible Launches Fix for SF, Fantasy Audiobooks

17 July, 20199 February, 2020Amazon, Audiobook10 Comments

I have probably told you this once or twice, but one reason I don't listen to audiobooks is the authors I like to read often use...

Amazon Prime Subscribers Can Get One Year of Audible for $119, and Add an Echo Hockey Puck for $0.99

27 June, 201927 June, 2019Amazon, Audiobook2 Comments

Amazon has a deal right on a one-year Audible subscription, and it's only available to Prime subscribers. Amazon Prime subscribers who do not currently have an...

POD Giveth, and POD Taketh Away (Piracy)

24 June, 201924 June, 2019Amazon, Piracy, POD4 Comments

About four years back I uncovered a massive textbook piracy operation running unchecked in Createspace. Enterprising scammers were stealing dozens of digital textbooks, then pirating them...

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