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On this week's Self-Publishing News podcast, ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway brings two pieces of good news for indie authors: the launch of the Indie Manga Alliance, a new US-based group representing manga creators and publishers outside the mainstream, and Libro.fm's expansion into e-books, giving readers another way to support indie authors and bookstores at the same time. T...

A week is, as the saying goes, a long time in politics. In technology, it is positively an aeon. Just last week, we were talking about the study of more than 14,000 self-published titles by Tuhin Chakrabarty that, while suggesting AI was generating commercial pressure on indie authors, found that sales of titles with signs of AI generation were lower than those of their human...

On the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, host Howard Lovy talks to novelist, poet, and educator Elizabeth Gauffreau about beta readers — what they actually do, how they differ from developmental editors, and why their real job is reader response, not critique. Drawing on decades of giving and receiving feedback as a writer and teacher, Gauffreau explains how authors can set ...

Welcome to Spammers and Scammers, our third edition in this series where we look at different scams targeting our indie author and publisher community so we can stay educated and protected from bad actors and sneaky service providers. This month…

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Libro.fm announced at the end of last week that it will soon be offering e-books through its platform. This marks yet another significant step in the general trend toward making it easier for devoted readers who want to support local bookstores to do so in whatever format they read.

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