What I’ve covered less, is the importance of awards as part of the marketing strategy for indies. I also try to report whenever there’s an indie success. And I have reported in this column every time a major award opens its doors to us. Prizes were a big part of the Open Up to Indie Authors that Debbie Young and I wrote the book for. One of the areas I’ve worked on most since I’ve been involved with ALLi has been awards. Book Award Pro Launches Free Tier for its Award Matching Programme Instead, you need to choose one of 35 “voices” that Google offers. You can’t sell a book you’ve had AI-narrated by a platform like Speechki or DeepZen. Audible still refuses to accept artificially narrated audiobooks. First, this is a clear differentiation from Audible. But it is still being reported by Publishers Weekly. Mark Williams astutely points out that this has already been offered in beta for a while. Google Play Books has been reported as increasing its AI narration offering. Google Play Books and AI NarrationĪnother tech giant to expand its literary offering is Google. Well, it’ll be interesting to see how Daunt and his relaunch of Nook will cope with that. And then when months down the line Amazon starts offering ePub files for sale in its stores. I can certainly see a situation in which people get used to reading ePubs on their Kindles. But critics have pointed out that forcing companies like Apple and Amazon to sell more formats might see them become even more dominant. The act is designed to ensure interoperability, and to stop tech companies using their size to lock you into proprietary formats. This throws an interesting light on the Digital Services Act. And now one of those places will be on their Kindle devices. And that means people turn to it because they know they’ll be able to read it in lots of different places for the foreseeable future. It is the format that W3C works on, ensuring that it will always be compatible with web browsers. EPub is, of course, the general standard for ebooks. They will also, interestingly, stop supporting mobi files. I’m not suggesting that this week’s story is a direct consequence of that. Those consequences included the possibility of Amazon making other people’s ebooks available in its Kindle store. It was just 2 weeks ago that I wrote about the possible consequences of the Digital Services Act.
He also speaks to everyone about ALLi's 10 year story so far. Please do listen to a special London Book Fair Self-Publishing News podcast here. Tim will be leading us in a discussion of whether we should format our own books. This week's #indieauthorchat is back on a Wednesday this week, at 8pm UK time, 3pm Eastern Time.
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