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On this week's Self-Publishing News podcast, ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway looks at the retro tech boom driving an unexpected CD revival — and what Gen Z's love of physical media means for print books. He then digs into a contested new study, cited by the AAP and Authors Guild, that links rising library e-lending to falling print sales, and reminds indie authors they set thei...

It’s been a week or so since we had news of a new survey. As this is an AI-related survey, it also provides the opportunity to roll our AI stories for the week into a single column (assuming, of course, nothing else breaks in the next few days. Which is, I’ll admit, a big assumption).

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On the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, host Howard Lovy talks to editor and author Roz Morris about what professional editing really costs and what authors get for their money. They discuss how editors set their rates, hourly versus fixed pricing, why some manuscripts require more work than others, choosing the right editor for your book, and why using AI before hiring an ...

We start with some big news in the audiobook sphere. That news comes from the world of Nordic audiobook companies, where Sweden’s Bonnier, owner of the BookBeat platform, has fully bought audiobook platform Nextory. That this was positioned in the Publishing Perspectives report on the story as a challenge to Storytel is a suitable reminder of just how dominant companies in th...

In this Alliance of Independent Authors post, Book Award Adviser Hannah Jacobson explains the award opportunities available to debut authors and how early recognition can help build momentum for an author’s career.

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