Author Update
by Thomas Umstattd Jr.
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Barnes and Noble Numbers Soar... And So Do Cars
Oct 16, 2026
1h 58m 50s
Audible Ads Are Finally Here
Oct 10, 2026
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Is Amazon Ending Permafree Books?
Oct 3, 2026
1h 40m 30s
Amazon Cracks Down on AI Authors
Sep 25, 2026
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KU Payout Falls
Sep 18, 2026
1h 25m 41s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 10/16/26 | Barnes and Noble Numbers Soar... And So Do Cars | Plus, new AI models for text-to-speech and so much more! | 1h 58m 50s | ||||||
| 10/10/26 | Audible Ads Are Finally Here | Plus, OpenAI is watermarking in the EU, Spotify is opening up to more markets, and we discuss the return of the public execution in America. | 1h 41m 50s | ||||||
| 10/3/26 | Is Amazon Ending Permafree Books? | Plus, AI updates, publishing acquisitions, and how the establishment of the Autonomous Warfare Command can give a shot in the arm to your sci-fi catalogue. | 1h 40m 30s | ||||||
| 9/25/26 | Amazon Cracks Down on AI Authors | Plus, Facebook limits outbound links, a new class action suit is about to open up against OpenAI, and Toys'R'Us returns. | 1h 22m 05s | ||||||
| 9/18/26 | KU Payout Falls | Plus, new updates to computer systems, a longer preorder window on Amazon and how an experiment on mice will affect your target market today. | 1h 25m 41s | ||||||
| 9/12/26 | The US Copyright Office Is Flagging Human-Written Books as AI | Plus, a lengthy discussion on the death of Charlie Kirk and what that has meant for America. | 1h 56m 57s | ||||||
| 9/5/26 | Amazon Caught Stealing Authors' Ad Dollars | Also, Thomas and Jonathan make everyone mad... ever. | 2h 03m 25s | ||||||
| 8/29/26 | Facebook Advertising Changed Forever... Again | Plus, non-cozy mystery numbers, Kindle price hikes and the passing of Dolly Parton. | 2h 08m 09s | ||||||
| 8/22/26 | AI Reads Aristotle - That's Why It Writes Better | Lots of AI news today, with new models, new systems and new possibilities for authors to use. | 1h 40m 40s | ||||||
| 8/17/26 | 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. | 2h 02m 53s | ||||||
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| 8/8/26 | 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. | 1h 56m 45s | ||||||
| 8/1/26 | Fauci's Diary and the Magic Boom in Fiction | Advancements in AI, changes in how agents work and the change in reader preferences. | 2h 09m 50s | ||||||
| 7/24/26 | 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. | 1h 54m 53s | ||||||
| 7/17/26 | 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. | 1h 35m 00s | ||||||
| 7/10/26 | 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. | 1h 52m 02s | ||||||
| 7/4/26 | 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. | 1h 52m 18s | ||||||
| 6/27/26 | 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. | 2h 00m 15s | ||||||
| 6/20/26 | Record Breaking KU Fund! | Plus, the US government bans Anthropic's Fable 5, and we talk the unrest in the UK. | 1h 17m 54s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | 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. | 1h 22m 22s | ||||||
| 6/6/26 | Is Libby Bankrupting the Libraries? | Plus, declining Pride month sales, Audible fires back at Spotify, and exactly what is afflicting Gen Z men? | 1h 50m 21s | ||||||
| 5/30/26 | No ISBN Means No Copyright Protection for Indie Authors | Plus, Amazon debuts a new paper option for paper books, and Thomas unpacks the pope's latest encyclical and how it relates to AI. | 1h 53m 10s | ||||||
| 5/23/26 | The Publishing Echo Chamber Nobody Will Admit Exists | Plus trad publishing numbers, AI news out the whazoo and the zeitgeist on baby names. | 1h 11m 37s | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | The Amazon Review Purge - The Author Survival Guide | Plus NewsCorps's new business model, ChatGPT's religious bias, and the zeitgeist take on Christopher Nolan's Odyssey. | 1h 37m 37s | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | Draft2Digital Confirms Amazon's Sales Reporting Is Off | Plus the numbers on AI slop in the Amazon market, a whole new set of Author Alerts and a lengthy zeitgeist segment on the nationalism vs. globalism movements across the world. | 1h 28m 49s | ||||||
| 5/1/26 | Audible Forces Every Title into New Royalty Model | Plus, FTC penalizes Publishing.com for deceptive practices, and Jonathan and Thomas argue Star Wars turnings. | 1h 44m 50s | ||||||
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Chart history for Author Update
Peaked at #191 in Netherlands, currently #191 in Netherlands.
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| Netherlands | — | #191 | #191 | — |
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Chart Positions
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