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Audible Makes Tiny Change to Its Execrable Return & Royalty Policy

24 November, 202024 November, 2020Amazon, AudiobookLeave a comment

It seems that if multiple author groups line up against it, Amazon can be forced to make a change to it policies – just not a...

Amazon is Actively Promoting Audiobook Exchanges as an Audible Subscription Feature

3 November, 20203 November, 2020Amazon, Audiobook14 Comments

I wasn’t going to touch this story because I thought at first that the claim was an exaggeration or misinterpretation, but I was wrong. If you’ve...

Audible Launches Netflix-Style Audiobook Services in Spain and Italy

23 September, 202023 September, 2020Amazon, AudiobookOne Comment

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...

Audible Escape is Being Shut Down on 1 November

15 September, 202015 September, 2020Amazon, AudiobookLeave a comment

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...

Audible Plus Offers Unlimited Access to Exclusive Content for $8 Per Month

24 August, 202025 August, 2020Audiobook9 Comments

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...

NetGalley Will Soon Offer Audiobook ARCs

7 July, 20207 July, 2020AudiobookLeave a comment

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...

OverDrive to “Acquire” Part of RBmedia

23 June, 202024 June, 2020Audiobook, OverdriveOne Comment

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...

Audible is Retiring One of Its Older Audiobook File Formats

28 May, 202028 May, 2020Audiobook3 Comments

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...

Amazon No Longer Pays Royalties on Audiobooks Redeemed With ACX Promo Codes

26 March, 202026 March, 2020Amazon, Audiobook4 Comments

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,...

Goodreads Doesn’t Think Audiobooks are Books

13 March, 202014 March, 2020Amazon, Audiobook13 Comments

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...

UK to End VAT on eBooks (But Not Audiobooks)

12 March, 202012 March, 2020Audiobook, Taxes2 Comments

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...

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

9 February, 20209 February, 2020Amazon, Audiobook12 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,...

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...