News Podcast: Bookstores Call for Faster Response; AI Micro Drama Deal Sparks Author Backlash

On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway reports on new insights into what bookstores want from publishers and how indie authors may be better placed to respond quickly to trends. He also examines controversy over Harlequin’s AI-driven micro drama project, where authors say they were not consulted, and looks at wider tensions in the publishing industry as it both adopts and challenges AI in different arenas.
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News Summary: Harlequin’s AI Microdrama Deal Sparks Backlash; Publishers Support Music Industry against Anthropic

The publishing industry has had a week of not seeming to be able to get its story straight on AI. I say story, but what I mean in the first instance is AI-generated animated microdramas. Video microdramas have been in the news several times of late. They are very much in demand with audiences and provide an opportunity for those writers who love producing serialized works with short episodes and cliffhangers aplenty.
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#AImicrodramas #AIgeneratedcontent #Anthropiclawsuit #authorrights #ConcordMusic

News Summary: 10,000 Authors Publish Blank Book Protesting UK AI Copyright Legislation

Remember how I started the week by contrasting the Paris Book Festival, where threatened boycotts over AI flooding the market had forced Amazon to withdraw its sponsorship, with London Book Fair, hosted in the less radical home of the open letter?
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#authorrights #copyright #DataMining #DontStealThisBook #LondonBookFair

News Summary: Authors Guild Pushes Back on Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’ AI Feature

The news starts 2026 as it ended 2025, with Amazon's new Ask This Book feature for Kindle books. When I first reported on this, I had yet to see the response from authors. Thanks to a link in Jane Friedman's newsletter, I have now been able to read and digest a very robust…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/ask-this-book/

#AIfeatures #AmazonKindle #AskThisBook #authorrights #AuthorsGuild

"Die OA Revolution hat sich dem Thema angenommen..." Marc Lange stellt launig das Spannungsfeld #openaccess #vgwort #authorrights vor -- fühle mich mit Star Wars Referenzen gut abgeholt 🤓 Danke für den sehr unterhaltsamen *und* inhaltlich gehaltvollen Vortrag #oat25

Die Handreichung "Open Access und die VG Wort" gibt's bei @berlinup : https://www.berlin-universities-publishing.de/beratung/handreichungen/vg-wort/index.html