Posted on March 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The publishing experts we follow have plenty of business and marketing advice and news to offer.
Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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New publishing platform for AI audiobooks: The new ElevenReader Publishing platform allows authors to upload a document, select an AI voice, and have the resulting audiobook be available for free through ElevenReader's app (Publishers Weekly).
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Traveling for book research: Joanna Penn's conversation with fellow author Luke Richardson covers some craft topics as well as business issues like becoming a full-time indie author, publishing through Kindle Unlimited, selling non-book items or experiences, and unpublishing certain books to maintain your brand (The Creative Penn).
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Beyond book sales: ALLi member-authors discuss what they've learned about expanding into selling physical products (Alliance of Independent Authors).
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Quick hits on copyright issues: Dan Holloway reports on the aftermath of the UK's public consultation on AI copyright and on academic libraries' shift to a subscription model (Alliance of Independent Authors).
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