News Podcast: Paris Book Festival Drops Amazon Sponsorship; Audible Launches Lower-Cost Subscription Plan

On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway reports from London Book Fair week and covers a dispute at the Paris Book Festival that led Amazon to withdraw its sponsorship after protests from French booksellers. He also examines Audible’s new lower-priced subscription plan and what it could mean for listeners and author royalties, and looks at the expansion of the Authors Guild’s Human Authored certification program.
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News Summary: Audible Reports Strong Retention with Immersion Reading; Authors Guild Expands Human Authored Certification

A short while ago, I reported on Audible's new immersion reading initiative. Subsequent to that, Publishing Perspectives had an expansion on the subject that makes it worthy of a revisit. You will recall that Audible now allows people who own e-books and audiobooks of the same title to read and listen at the same time, with features such as highlighting the text of the word currently being narrated.
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