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Author Update — 74 episodes
The US Copyright Office Is Flagging Human-Written Books as AI
Amazon Caught Stealing Authors' Ad Dollars
Facebook Advertising Changed Forever... Again
AI Reads Aristotle - That's Why It Writes Better
Barnes & Noble Just Banned the Front Table Author Signing Nationwide
AI Fiction Seizes Almost 30% of Kindle's Catalog
Fauci's Diary and the Magic Boom in Fiction
The Digital Vs. Physical War - AI Companies Pulping Books By The Pallet
The Atlantic Just Declared the Age of Reading Is Over
The Week That Changed Indie Publishing
America's 250th Birthday - Will It Survive
The Pope Says To Finish Thy Book
Record Breaking KU Fund!
Men Buy Books and Women Borrow Them
Is Libby Bankrupting the Libraries?
No ISBN Means No Copyright Protection for Indie Authors
The Publishing Echo Chamber Nobody Will Admit Exists
The Amazon Review Purge - The Author Survival Guide
Draft2Digital Confirms Amazon's Sales Reporting Is Off
Audible Forces Every Title into New Royalty Model
Price Fixing at Amazon
Amazon Kills Store Access for Two Million Kindles
Huge Legal Wins for Authors
The Week Romance Died - And Other Dramas
Scientists Prove AI Is Rewriting Your Book When You're Not Looking
Long Live the Writers! Publisher Drops AI Written Book
17 Days Left to Claim Anthropic Payout
Iran Just Destroyed Your Book Sales This Weekend -- Here's What Happened
The Indie Whale Reader - 100 Books a Year and How To Reach Them
Indies Win! Harlequin to Close Historical Romance Line
Substack Breach! Author Information Compromised
Could OpenAI Own Your Book?
Ingram Goes To War With AI
Federal Court Just Changed Copyright Law Globally for Authors
AI Threats, Platform Changes and Cultural Shifts Authors Can't Ignore
Author Update's Predictions for 2026!
Reports Say That The Majority of Paranormal Romance Is AI Generated!
The Demonetized Episode
Author Update Has A New Home!
The Amazon Associate Crackdown and Black Friday Deals!
Did Google's Gemini Train on Your Manuscript?
The Algorithm War: AI vs. Human Writing
The Holiday Marketing Guide
Traditional Publishing in Crisis: Sales Down 9.4%
Scam Alert! The Nigerian Bot Army Has Arrived!
Massive Amazon Algorithm Changes and the Grid
Publisher's Cancellation Backfires, What's Selling Now and Are Libraries Going Under?
US Copyright Office Closes, Piracy Surges Again and the Anthropic Settlement Website Goes Live
Updates in Anthropic Case, NanoWriMo Replaced and How To Write First Aid
Amazon KU Allowed in Public Libraries, the TikTok Deal and Cancel Culture
Christian Author Assassinated, Mailer Lite Adjusts Its Free Plan and Kit Raises Prices
Anthropic to Pay Authors $3000 Per Book, Zeitgeist, and Author Arrested for Tweets
New International Shipping Rules Hit Authors and Libraries Acquire KU Books?
Spotify Upgrades Audiobook Accessibility and George R.R. Martin Told To Step Down
The End of Rapid Release and the Advent of Breadgeist
GPT-5 Is Here
Audible Reduces Author Royalties, Trad Sales Plummet, Indie Sales Rise
Substack, GoodReads and MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAT!!!
Zeitgeist: The Age of Ruthless Heros
Barnes and Noble, Bots, Bankruptcy and Beyond: The Big Beautiful Episode
The Case of Authors Vs. AI
How The Iran War Will Impact Authors
Amazon Drops Printing Prices, Lays Off Kindle Staff, and Ends Hourly Rankings
Is the AI Bubble Popping?
The End of Google for Authors?
Do 45% of Authors *Already* Use AI?!
KDP Royalty Changes & Invasion of the AI Audiobooks
Skype Dies, Romantasy Surges, & Mr. Beast Starts Writing the Bestest Best Seller Ever
Book Bans, Copyright Trolls Target Authors, and is Social Media Mostly Bots?
Does Facebook Think Your Book is Worthless, Author Certification & AI Gets Religion
Amazon's New AI Series Recap Feature: How It Will Impact Your Kindle Books
Tariffs Up & NaNoWiMo Closing Down
Invasion of the AI Images
Did Meta Steal Your Book?