Dan Holloway

Dan Holloway discusses the COPIED Act, providing copyright protection for creators in AI era. He explores AI's impact on creativity, highlighting the balance between individual originality and collective diversity. The podcast delves into generative AI benefits for content creation and concerns over decreased diversity in generated content.

Dan Holloway, an innovative force in the book industry and host of the Self-Publishing News Podcast, dives deep into 2024's key developments. He tackles the significance of creativity in self-publishing and challenges within the WordPress community affecting authors. The discussion covers the digital lending landscape, copyright tensions, and the evolving role of AI in publishing. Holloway highlights the income disparity among indie authors and examines the implications for creative freedom versus corporate control, all while honoring a lost voice in indie publishing.

In this podcast, Dan Holloway, Self-publishing News editor, discusses the findings of the Authors Guild of America income survey, which reveals that indie authors earn more from books than traditionally published authors. It also explores the income differences between indie and traditionally published authors, emphasizing the importance of a comprehensive analysis. Additionally, it delves into Wattpad's new Wattpad Originals program and discusses various other topics such as Amazon's antitrust case and the changing publishing landscape.