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Self-Publishing News: Findaway Voices Terms – What’s Really Changed? https://selfpublishingadvice.org/self-publishing-news-findaway-voices-changed-terms/ #FindawayVoicesbySpotify #Spotifyaudiobooks #audiobookrights #authors'rights #FindawayVoices #SpotifyAudible #audiblegate #News
Self-Publishing News: Findaway Voices Terms - What’s Really Changed?

On Friday of last week, Findaway Voices by Spotify announced new terms and conditions that some have commented as being “rights grab”...

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Show threadCory DoctorowJan 10, 2024

That's how Audible gets away with abusing its performers and writers, up to and including the $100m #Audiblegate wage-theft scandal:

https://www.audiblegate.com/

Audible can steal $100m from its writers...and the writers still continue to sell on the platform, because leaving will cost them their audience.

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Show threadCory DoctorowJun 14, 2023

For example, its audiobook division, #Audible, has a 90+% market-share, and it used that market-power to steal at least $100m from audiobook creators, in a scandal dubbed #Audiblegate:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/07/audible-exclusive/#audiblegate

For Europe's 800k sellers who rely on Amazon to reach their customers, the monoposony conditions are blatant and shameless.

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Pluralistic: 07 Sep 2022 We published an Audible Exclusive about the monopolistic abuses of Audible – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Guest Editorial: Cory Doctorow is a Bestselling Author, but Audible Won't Carry his Audiobooks | Brandon Sanderson

Hey, everyone. I hope you'll be willing to read another post about the problems with Audible and the current audiobook landscape. It has been a few mon ...

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