News Summary: Audible Launches Cheaper Standard Plan to Challenge Spotify’s Audiobook Growth

The recent run of new offerings from audiobook platforms keeps on going. It's reached the stage where even TechCrunch (who are, as the name suggests, more a tech than a publishing outlet) are openly calling this an open battle for market share between Audible and Spotify. And are suggesting that Spotify's remarkable growth in the short time (four years) since they launched their audiobook offering has got Audible flustered.
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News Summary: Boundless Books Closes, Leaving Authors Owed Royalties; New Venture Offers Help

Over the past few weeks, I’ve reported a couple of times on the troubles at what was Unbound and has since become Boundless Books. Most recently, the founder of Unbound, John Mitchison, left the new company that had been set up under the…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/boundless-books/

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News Summary: Radish to Shut Down by End of 2025 After Nearly a Decade of Serialized Fiction

Before I started this post, I thought I would look back at the things I’ve said about Radish over the years. It turns out that although I’ve covered the serial fiction reading platform quite a few times, most of those were in 2021 and relate to the…
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