Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service tops $5 billion payout
5 BILLION – that’s how much Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited will have paid out to self-publishers and small presses when the October 2026 pot payout is announced in November.
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AI Data Centres and the Green Moral Panic: What Publishing Gets Wrong About AI’s Environmental Impact
The viral claims about AI data centres and water use are real but missing context. TNPS examines what the numbers actually mean, what the regulatory precedents are, and why publishing’s green panic is selective to the point of dishonesty.
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I Asked Eight AIs About the Amazon AI-Books Panic. They Couldn’t Agree How Big Amazon Is
A viral chart and a straightforward question, put to eight freemium AI tools. The answers didn’t just disagree on conclusions – they disagreed on basic, checkable facts, with total confidence, every time.
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Amazon’s AI Content Marketplace: The Emerging Details
Amazon plans AWS-integrated AI content marketplace rivaling Microsoft PCM. Publishers sell training data via Bedrock. Unconfirmed, but leverages cloud dominance.
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Amazon A10 Changes The Rules For Authors and Publishers Gaming The System
Amazon’s 2026 A10 algorithm ends flash-in-the-pan promos; steady velocity now rules rankings. Here’s what publishers must do.
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Amazon is an AI Tech Company. Why Does it Get a Free Pass from the UK’s Publishers Association and the Society of Authors?
Amazon now has nailed its publishing industry AI colours to the mast. We cannot have one rule for Amazon and another for every other AI company.
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The Publishing Industry’s Divergent Reactions to Amazon and AI Companies: A Study in Hypocrisy and Dependency
Joke of the Month: “The Trump-Vance FTC will never back down from taking on Big Tech” – US Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson.
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A decade of unlimited ebook subscription. $3.5 billion paid to self-publishers
Markus, that deadline is almost up. If you wish, I can get the kids at school to make you a The End Is Nigh sandwich board so you can walk the streets of Manhattan outside PRH like Bruce Willis in Die Hard Whatever-Number-It-Was, and remind everyone just how dumb you were.
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Amazon to Consolidate Amazon Studios and MGM Teams Following Layoffs, as 5% of Audible staff are fired
On the bright side, there is no indication that AI is to blame, so the rest of the infotainment industry need lose no sleep conjuring up righteous indignation over the news.
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Amazon Q3 results are out. Nothing about publishing. But 33 mentions of AI that the industry needs to wake up to
As we clearly see in the Q3 report, Amazon understands and is going all out to exploit AI’s...
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Publishers rejoice as FTC grapples with the Frankenstein’s monster the publishing industry created
When it comes to playing the victim card and putting on raucous demonstrations of self-righteous...
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Amazon pays out almost $50 million to self-pub authors using Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service as August US print market slows
It will be interesting to see what, if any, changes the new PRH CEO Nihar Malaviya will make to...
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