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News: Audiobook Listeners Buy in Multiple Formats; AI Splits the Ghostwriting Market
10 minutes Posted Oct 16, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
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On this week's Self-Publishing News podcast, ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway digs into Audible's new Nielsen IQ study of 18,000 listeners, which finds audiobook fans buying the same books in multiple formats — and still seeking out human narrators. He also covers Smashwords adding pre-orders and pre-sales through Draft2Digital, and a Bookseller report on how AI is splitting the ghostwriting market in two.

About the Host

Dan Holloway is a novelist, poet, and spoken word artist. He is the MC of the performance arts show The New Libertines, He competed at the National Poetry Slam final at the Royal Albert Hall. His latest collection, The Transparency of Sutures, is   available on Kindle.