Author Update

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Author Update episodes

August 17 Barnes & Noble Just Banned the Front Table Author Signing Nationwide
Plus, new numbers in the industry, workbots to help with author work and a spicy zeitgeist take on how media is destroying women.
2 hr 3 min
August 08 AI Fiction Seizes Almost 30% of Kindle's Catalog
Plus, we discuss country music, AI as used as a research tool, and an author who lost a lucrative tradpub deal because of an accusation.
1 hr 57 min
August 01 Fauci's Diary and the Magic Boom in Fiction
Advancements in AI, changes in how agents work and the change in reader preferences.
2 hr 10 min
July 24 The Digital Vs. Physical War - AI Companies Pulping Books By The Pallet
All the new AI models, China's surge to tech dominance and why we should write flash floods in our books.
1 hr 55 min
July 17 The Atlantic Just Declared the Age of Reading Is Over
Plus indie stats on readers and authors, Gemini's in trouble for committing Anthropic's mistake, and how should we focus our writing, all on Author Update.
1 hr 35 min
July 10 The Week That Changed Indie Publishing
Listen to Jonathan and guest host Bryan Canter talk about author news on this special episode of Author Update.
1 hr 53 min
July 04 America's 250th Birthday - Will It Survive
All things America! Thomas and Jonathan celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States by discussing publishing trends and how America was shaped by independent publishers.
1 hr 53 min
June 27 The Pope Says To Finish Thy Book
Plus, numbers on trad vs. Indie publishing, OpenAI's hesitancy to release a new version of ChatGPT after Fable's cancellation, and an hour long zeitgeist session of vigilante justice. This is Author Update.
2 hr 1 min
June 20 Record Breaking KU Fund!
Plus, the US government bans Anthropic's Fable 5, and we talk the unrest in the UK.
1 hr 18 min
June 15 Men Buy Books and Women Borrow Them
Plus, tech news on Meta and Anthropic, and we go over the fun in each country's culture.
1 hr 23 min

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