Google Play Books and AI NarrationĪnother tech giant to expand its literary offering is Google.

Well, it’ll be interesting to see how Daunt and his relaunch of Nook will cope with that. And then when months down the line Amazon starts offering ePub files for sale in its stores. I can certainly see a situation in which people get used to reading ePubs on their Kindles. But critics have pointed out that forcing companies like Apple and Amazon to sell more formats might see them become even more dominant. The act is designed to ensure interoperability, and to stop tech companies using their size to lock you into proprietary formats. This throws an interesting light on the Digital Services Act. And now one of those places will be on their Kindle devices. And that means people turn to it because they know they’ll be able to read it in lots of different places for the foreseeable future. It is the format that W3C works on, ensuring that it will always be compatible with web browsers. EPub is, of course, the general standard for ebooks. They will also, interestingly, stop supporting mobi files. I’m not suggesting that this week’s story is a direct consequence of that. Those consequences included the possibility of Amazon making other people’s ebooks available in its Kindle store.

It was just 2 weeks ago that I wrote about the possible consequences of the Digital Services Act. He also speaks to everyone about ALLi's 10 year story so far. Please do listen to a special London Book Fair Self-Publishing News podcast here. Tim will be leading us in a discussion of whether we should format our own books. This week's #indieauthorchat is back on a Wednesday this week, at 8pm UK time, 3pm Eastern Time.

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