Audible Tests In-App Promo Videos
In December, Audible began testing in-app vertical videos for book promotion. Select publishers can trailers, author interviews, and more to drive audiobook discovery. The feature is now in beta, available to about half of Audible users.
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Meet the New Judge in the Anthropic Case
With the retirement of Judge William Alsup, Northern California District Court Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin will oversee the Anthropic copyright settlement from here. Appointed to the bench in 2023 by President Joe Biden, she is considered “one of the nation’s leading immigration attorneys, having spent her entire career advocating for rights of immigrant workers.” In paperwork filed December 30 as ordered by Judge Alsup, the plaintiffs’ attorneys admitted that they had agreed to the split of legal fees proposed to the court in an early December filing way back on August 7 in a written agreement. No doubt Judge Alsup would […]
“Public Domain Day” Features Faulkner, Nancy Drew and More
Books newly entering the public domain in 2026 include the following, as charted by Duke University’s Center for the Public Domain: As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett The Murder at the Vicarage, Agatha Christie’s first novel featuring Miss Marple The first four Nancy Drew books, beginning with The Secret of the Old Clock, by Carolyn Keene (pseudonym for Mildred Benson) The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper (pen name of Arnold Munk), illustrated by Lois Lenski Elson Basic Readers (the first appearances of Dick and Jane), by William H. Elson Vile Bodies, […]
A PM Free Trial to End the Year
To brighten the year-end, we have a brief free trial period available at PublishersMarketplace.com. Try out all of the new features we launched this year and more, with no continuing obligation (though we hope you’ll stay) — available now, from December 30 until January 2. Please follow the posted conditions — and enjoy!