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The new “Kindle+” brand blurs the remaining boundary between Kindle and Audible
22 October 2026 (ZDnet)
Amazon is officially rebranding Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+. Audiobooks are becoming a bigger part of the Kindle+ subscription. The list of audiobooks will include titles narrated by AI.

RBmedia to Expand through European Publisher Acquisitions
23 October 2026 (Publishing Perspectives)
The world’s largest audiobook publisher looks to broaden its non-English language market activity.  The key way that they are looking to expand is by acquiring or partnering with local publishers in non-English language markets, such as Germany, France, Spain, Sweden and Denmark, with a look toward Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and South America further down the line.

Kindle Android App Now Allows Handwritten Notes
23 October 2026 (Android Authority)
Amazon has rolled out handwritten notes to the Kindle Android app. The feature allows readers to mark up their ebooks with handwritten notes. Support appears to be exclusive to Android tablets and phones, for now. This update follows the addition of two other recently added features. Days ago, users noticed the emergence of options for underlining and outlining ebook text on Android.

Hundreds of authors abandon the class-action route and sue Meta individually
22 October (The Bookseller)
Approximately 300 authors filed individual copyright complaints against Meta on 19 October, alleging that their books were obtained from shadow libraries and used for AI training. Their lawyers reportedly plan cases for nearly 1,000 additional authors; the claims seek statutory damages that could reach US$150,000 per infringed work, although no damages have yet been awarded. 

UK Report: Physical books are massively more energy-intensive than ebooks
21 October 2026 (Print Week)
A major print industry body is apoplectic about a report that claims printed books involve energy-intensive supply chains and retail operations, driving up electricity and total energy use. Apparently ebooks are 1,500 times less awful than printed books.

Japan drafts guidelines favoring mix of paper, digital textbooks
19 October 2026 (Kyodo News)
School textbooks will be allowed in three formats: paper, fully digital and a "hybrid" combination of paper and digital content. The new framework covers elementary, junior high and high school textbooks.

YouTube to Sell Audiobooks
15 October 2026 (Wall St Journal)
According to The Wall Street Journal, YouTube is in talks with publishers about launching an audiobook service, potentially as early as 2027, and possibly incorporating it into YouTube Premium. With its enormous existing audience, YouTube could become a formidable competitor to Audible and Spotify, while giving publishers a valuable new distribution channel and an opportunity to monetise listening that currently takes place through unauthorised uploads.

Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service tops $5 billion payout 
17 October 2026 (The New Publishing Standard)
Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service began back in summer 2014. How they laughed. The total pot payout to participating authors was $2.5 million for July 2014.

Upcoming Workshop: AI in the Publishing Industry
15 October 2026 (Publishing Perspectives)
An online course and live seminar series for leaders working in the international book business. Four live sessions will run on Thursdays, Jan 21st to Feb 11th.

Brighter colour e-ink screens are coming
17 October 2026 (BigGo)
Goodbye drab. E Ink Kaleido 4 Promises Faster Refresh and Richer Color for Next Wave of E-Readers. The next generation of color e-paper is arriving with a substantial performance leap, as E Ink Holdings unveiled its Kaleido 4 platform with claims of doubled color range, brighter whites, and a refresh rate fast enough to handle video. The Taiwanese display maker announced the technology on October 15.

Kobo unifies EPUB and KEPUB rendering while preserving handwritten annotations
16 October 2026 (Kobo)
Kobo’s current OS 6 release notes say ordinary EPUBs and Kobo EPUBs now share one rendering engine. Stylus markups are retained across connected Kobo devices and mobile apps; when layout changes move the underlying text, some handwritten notes appear as anchored thumbnails rather than being lost.

Kobo Plus adds more than 500,000 audiobooks in France
15 October 2026 (Kobo Writing Life)
Kobo has expanded its French subscription from ebook-only access to a €14.99 monthly Read & Listen plan. Kobo reports a catalogue of more than two million ebooks and 500,000 audiobooks; independently published audio already opted into all Kobo Plus territories is included automatically.

Libro.fm ebooks are pushed back until 2027
14 October 2026 (Good E-Reader)
The company has confirmed in a new FAQ that its new e-book platform will launch sometime in 2027, after initially saying it would be available in 2026. They stated that “Our bookselling partners will gain access to ebooks this fall, and we’ll share updates on wider availability as we approach 2027. All of our audiobooks will remain DRM-free, and we are working to bring on as many DRM-free ebooks as possible.

EPUB 3.4 brings vertical-scroll comics into the ebook standard
12 October 2026 (W3C)
W3C’s update explains that EPUB 3.4 adds a standardised roll layout for vertically scrolling comics, alongside AVIF, JPEG XL and OPUS support, refined accessibility metadata and an updated EPUBCheck. Existing conforming EPUB 3 files remain valid; the specification is still undergoing implementation testing.

Audible to Launch New Features to Bring Listeners into the Story
11 October 2026 (Good E-Reader)
Over the coming months, the audiobook giant will be rolling out three innovative features: the Character Guide, Interactive Stories, and Visual Explorer.

Google Launches “Expert Intelligence” in Google Play Books
10 October 2026 (Good E-Reader)
The platform launched with over 100,000 titles; the integration lets users generate quizzes, infographics, and Audio Overviews while combining published  books with personal notes.  Publishers include Bloomsbury, PRH, Macmillan & O'Reilly

BookBeat says attention, not catalogue size, is audio’s bottleneck
10 October 2026 (audio@media)
BookBeat reported that 50,520 audiobooks were added to its service during the previous 12 months, but the 5,000 most-started titles accounted for 85% of all starts. CEO Niclas Sandin argued that future growth depends more on relevance and discovery than on adding further catalogue volume

Calibre app can now read ebooks aloud without sounding like a robot
9 October 2026 (OMG ubuntu)
A new update to the Calibre ebook manager is out and it brings more natural sounding text-to-speech (TTS) voices. The new voices sound ‘much more natural’, especially in English.

S&S offers self-published authors a digital-first hybrid model
8 October 2026 (Publishers Weekly)
Simon & Schuster’s new imprint promises to combine the flexibility of self-publishing with big five marketing might. Simon Stream will launch its first titles globally this month, with simultaneous publication in e-book, paperback (available through print-on-demand), and audio.  
Audible Wants to Turn Every Book into an Audiobook
9 October 2026 (Publishers Weekly)
Audible will bring its service, with local languages, currencies and region-specific title recommendations, to Indonesia, South Korea, Denmark, Norway and Finland in 2027. The launches build on the 11 marketplaces announced at the London Book Fair earlier this year.

Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
9 October 2026 (Wired)
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

Tonies CEO Shares Vision for Growth
8 October 2026 (Publishers Weekly)
Tonies, the German maker of the screen-free Toniebox audio player for children, will start selling in two new markets next year, with a plan to be global by 2030, CEO Tobias Wann said during the annual showcase CEO Talk at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Wednesday, Oct.

Storytel Talks AI-translated Audiobooks
8 October 2026 (Publishers Weekly)
Storytel sees AI primarily as a publishing acceleration tool: useful for translating high-volume, commercially suitable content quickly across markets, while retaining human judgement and quality control for work where literary nuance matters most.

Spotify takes audiobooks global
7 October 2026 (9to5mac)
Spotify has announced a massive global expansion of its audiobooks section, rolling out over 350,000 titles across 180+ markets to reach more than 750 million listeners worldwide by 2026. The update introduces flexible listening options—including 12 monthly hours for eligible Premium subscribers and an expanded Audiobooks+ add-on—alongside an upgraded Page Match feature that syncs physical books to their audio versions via ISBN barcode scanning.

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