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Author Update — 56 episodes

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1

Draft2Digital Confirms Amazon's Sales Reporting Is Off

2

Audible Forces Every Title into New Royalty Model

3

Price Fixing at Amazon

4

Amazon Kills Store Access for Two Million Kindles

5

Huge Legal Wins for Authors

6

The Week Romance Died - And Other Dramas

7

Scientists Prove AI Is Rewriting Your Book When You're Not Looking

8

Long Live the Writers! Publisher Drops AI Written Book

9

17 Days Left to Claim Anthropic Payout

10

Iran Just Destroyed Your Book Sales This Weekend -- Here's What Happened

11

The Indie Whale Reader - 100 Books a Year and How To Reach Them

12

Indies Win! Harlequin to Close Historical Romance Line

13

Substack Breach! Author Information Compromised

14

Could OpenAI Own Your Book?

15

Ingram Goes To War With AI

16

Federal Court Just Changed Copyright Law Globally for Authors

17

AI Threats, Platform Changes and Cultural Shifts Authors Can't Ignore

18

Author Update's Predictions for 2026!

19

Reports Say That The Majority of Paranormal Romance Is AI Generated!

20

The Demonetized Episode

21

Author Update Has A New Home!

22

The Amazon Associate Crackdown and Black Friday Deals!

23

Did Google's Gemini Train on Your Manuscript?

24

The Algorithm War: AI vs. Human Writing

25

The Holiday Marketing Guide

26

Traditional Publishing in Crisis: Sales Down 9.4%

27

Scam Alert! The Nigerian Bot Army Has Arrived!

28

Massive Amazon Algorithm Changes and the Grid

29

Publisher's Cancellation Backfires, What's Selling Now and Are Libraries Going Under?

30

US Copyright Office Closes, Piracy Surges Again and the Anthropic Settlement Website Goes Live

31

Updates in Anthropic Case, NanoWriMo Replaced and How To Write First Aid

32

Amazon KU Allowed in Public Libraries, the TikTok Deal and Cancel Culture

33

Christian Author Assassinated, Mailer Lite Adjusts Its Free Plan and Kit Raises Prices

34

Anthropic to Pay Authors $3000 Per Book, Zeitgeist, and Author Arrested for Tweets

35

New International Shipping Rules Hit Authors and Libraries Acquire KU Books?

36

Spotify Upgrades Audiobook Accessibility and George R.R. Martin Told To Step Down

37

The End of Rapid Release and the Advent of Breadgeist

38

GPT-5 Is Here

39

Audible Reduces Author Royalties, Trad Sales Plummet, Indie Sales Rise

40

Substack, GoodReads and MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAT!!!

41

Zeitgeist: The Age of Ruthless Heros

42

Barnes and Noble, Bots, Bankruptcy and Beyond: The Big Beautiful Episode

43

The Case of Authors Vs. AI

44

How The Iran War Will Impact Authors

45

Amazon Drops Printing Prices, Lays Off Kindle Staff, and Ends Hourly Rankings

46

Is the AI Bubble Popping?

47

The End of Google for Authors?

48

Do 45% of Authors *Already* Use AI?!

49

KDP Royalty Changes & Invasion of the AI Audiobooks

50

Skype Dies, Romantasy Surges, & Mr. Beast Starts Writing the Bestest Best Seller Ever

51

Book Bans, Copyright Trolls Target Authors, and is Social Media Mostly Bots?

52

Does Facebook Think Your Book is Worthless, Author Certification & AI Gets Religion

53

Amazon's New AI Series Recap Feature: How It Will Impact Your Kindle Books

54

Tariffs Up & NaNoWiMo Closing Down

55

Invasion of the AI Images

56

Did Meta Steal Your Book?