Readers may know Grant Faulkner for his work as director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) — a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging aspiring writers to pen a whole novel...
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What if you could get your phone or tablet to read Kindle or other text aloud to you? I have recently come across an easy way to do this. This...
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Newly unsealed documents in the class-action lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild against OpenAI show the startup deleted two huge datasets, named "books1" and "books2," that had been used to...
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AI is coming for audiobooks, and that is not an entirely bad thing. But it is a cause of concern in the realm of audio titles and the folks who...
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Reviewed: New Australian Fiction 2022, Kill Your Darlings (ed. Suzy Garcia) A consistent theme in recent discussions of literary trends—at least on Twitter—is the massive surge in popularity of shorter forms...
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The man behind the Glasgow 'Willy Wonka scam' which saw customers shelling out £35 a-head for a 'shambolic' chocolate free, AI-generated event has been revealed as a Glaswegian 'author' who...
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6 November 2023By Alex Christian,Features correspondentAlamyThe business of audiobooks has grown as readers increasingly adopt new ways of consuming literature (Credit: Alamy)Spotify has added audiobooks to its subscription model. Reaching...
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Short stories seem to be having a moment in popular culture. Director Wes Anderson has four new short films based on short stories by Roald Dahl set to stream on Netflix later this...
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Four years ago, I published my first book: End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World. It did ... okay? I earned a Q&A with the site you’re...
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Roughly a month after Spotify announced that a selection of audiobooks would become a part of its Premium subscription, the company is today expanding the service to U.S. users for...
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