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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 01/02/2026

Starting today, I’m taking up slow news. No algorithmic curation. Articles written by humans, with real names. It’s refreshing.

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SpokenRealms @spokenrealms.com · 20/08/2025

#Authors, #narrators and small #publishers, if you're still confused, or concerned, about #Audible's new royalty model, check out @danielgreene.bsky.social's‬ latest video and follow him on #YouTube @DanielGreeneReviews . youtube.com/watch?v=AfSW... #audiobooks #brandonsanderson #royaltymodel

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Audible Exploited Brandon Sanderson

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 26/08/2025

It never occurred to me that we could "end surveillance capitalism", even though it's destroying democracy, driving us all mad with distraction, and enabling governments and corporations to track every moment of our lives....this book shifted my thinking. www.audible.com/pd/Stolen-Fo...

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Stolen Focus

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking ex...

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 18/07/2025

Bravo Colbert! If only all employees could be so brave, the world would look very different.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Happy birthday, America. Your gift? A new police state.

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 04/07/2025

Owner responsibility = Slavery, of course. He taught the MAGA base that "these people" are "vermin", and now this.

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 17/06/2025

This is such an awesome and healthy choice.

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 10/06/2025

The audiobook industry continues to grow! "Audiobook sales revenue rose to $2.22 billion in 2024, 13% over the previous year." #narrator #humanvoicesonly www.audiopub.org/surveys

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Research Surveys Press Release — Homepage

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 10/06/2025

"The consumption and number of AI-narrated audiobooks has increased, though willingness to try AI-narrated audiobooks dropped year-over-year, from 77% in 2023 to 70% in 2025." - Audiobook Publishers Association, June 2025 www.audiopub.org/surveys #narrator #humanvoicesonly #loveaudiobooks

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Research Surveys Press Release — Homepage

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 14/05/2025

If Alexander Hamilton imagined corporations that were richer and more powerful than countries, the Constitution would prohibit gifts from them too. No more lobbying. Congress would only act in our interests. Only the courts could achieve this change now. @democracyforward.org @maddow.msnbc.com

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 11/05/2025

I think Duolingo knows that I’m going to visit America soon.

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Kirkus Audiobook Reviews @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

We review #audiobooks for all ages—from young listeners to #tweens and #teens Find our special edition newsletter “Can’t-Miss Audiobooks for Kids & Teens” in your inbox — or click to read now #kidlit #mglit myemail.constantcontact.com/Can-t-Miss-A... Subscribe AudioFileMagazine.com

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 01/05/2025

Yea, cause who wants clean air? Not republicans obviously.

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 21/04/2025

I love this. You don’t have to be available everywhere, all the time. Do your best work. Be known for quality.

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 21/04/2025

Proud of you, Europe! 🇪🇺

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 15/04/2025

Google won't let us turn off AI Overviews. Let's turn off Google. I'm moving to Qwant.

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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

🧵1 #writingcommunity #author #narrator Do you remember that on 27 Feb 2024 #brandonsanderson shared a blog post about having negotiated a 'new royalty model' for authors who sell on Audible. I'm sure his heart was in the right place, but what we got is WORSE. www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/r...

"I’m happy to say that this stand has borne some fruit. I’ve spent this last year in contact with Audible and other audio distributors, and have pushed carefully–but forcefully–for them to step up. A few weeks ago, three key officers high in Audible’s structure flew to Dragonsteel offices and presented for us a new royalty structure they intend to offer to independent writers and smaller publishers." - Brandon Sanderson

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Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Hauntings can be more than lingering souls seeking revenge or to deal with unfinished business; sometimes the emotions and energy of past events can be recorded on the location itself, imprinting and replaying over and over again... 🧵⬇️

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Jackie Flynn Mogensen @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

At the #HandsOff protest at Bryant Park in NYC. There are too many people to count… and also bagpipes.

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

loving this one i saw on another site #handsoff

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 23/03/2025

YES. Keep your Tesla. COVER it with the stickers. A rolling protest sounds like the most effective way forward.

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 15/03/2025

Adolescence on Netflix is so powerful. The long scenes shot continuously make you realise how rarely we hold such an intense emotional focus.

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 14/03/2025

Narrators are unlike any other actors. You've passed us in the street. We're behind you in the grocery store. We're invisible. So hearing Whoopie Goldberg say this on The View means a lot. youtu.be/5V6pOgnq5S8

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Whoopi Goldberg Celebrates Audie Award For 'Bits and Pieces' Audiobook

YouTube video by The View

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 13/03/2025

Live in Spain, eat a Mediterranean diet and 3 yogurts a day, and fill your life with: “order, tranquility, good connection with family and friends, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets, lots of positivity and staying away from toxic people”.

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 05/03/2025

“I thought we settled all this years ago, but now the Old Jim Crow is back with polio.” -My brilliant friend @jongorey.bsky.social

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 05/03/2025

I've got a lot of #audiobook listening to do! Just downloaded Will Damron and @justjanuary.bsky.social's Audie Winner in the Mystery category. For the full list of Audie winners, go here: www.audiopub.org/2025audies-1

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 05/03/2025

And that's not all....look who else was there! #audiobooks

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 05/03/2025

Look who was on stage at the Audies last night (the Oscars for Audiobooks).

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Mary R Morrow @marymorrow.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Right 👇🏾👏🏾😊

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 04/03/2025

Laws should be binding. And treaties should mean something.

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 04/03/2025

Love Audiobooks? 💙📚 Tonight is our biggest annual awards event -- the Oscars for Audiobooks -- the Audies, hosted by Amy Sedaris. You can stream it live. Congratulations to my fellow #narrators who are up for awards. 👏https://www.youtube.com/live/DZ6KZvPtgEA

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2025 Audies Live Stream

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ligirl66.bsky.social @ligirl66.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This was posted as a full page paid advertisement in today’s New York Times

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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

#BannedBookSkyClub schedule: March 2025: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler April 2025: Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, et al. May 2025: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King June 2025: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin Link to feed in replies. #BookSky Please join us.

Photo of the four books listed in post, size by side on a dark blue woven rug.

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 04/03/2025

It's EERIE to listen to this audiobook, which has so many parallels to today - wealth inequality, corporate greed, climate change. Published in 1993, but written about THIS TIME, as in "March 4, 2025"!

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Astronaut Terry Virts @astroterry.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

For my Democratic friends in Congress, please wear Zelensky’s Oval Office attire tomorrow night to Trump’s State of Union speech.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Yesterday, the streets of Chicago were filled with Ukrainian flags. Thank you to everyone who stands with #Ukraine! 📹: dem4yna/Instagram

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 03/03/2025

Word of the day: "Picayune". It means "petty or small-minded." #WOTD

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 03/03/2025

How much of our internet and phone service goes through Elon's Starlink? What happens if Elon wants to switch them off, not only to Ukraine, but to other countries, or even to individual IP addresses? #resist

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 03/03/2025

Maps are so easy to change! Could this be the next Google map update, reflecting the new United States of Russia? #resist

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 03/03/2025

It's time for us to rewrite the American national anthem. We need something rousing, something that reaffirms American values. It needs to double as protest song and a legacy of this age. #MusicianSky #writingcommunity

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 01/03/2025

More of this, please!!

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 01/03/2025

So…Russian state television was let into the Oval Office to live stream Trump and Vance’s attack on Zelensky??? How can anyone, even in MAGA, defend this?

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April Doty @aprildoty.com · 26/02/2025

Going to Bolonia, Spain is like pressing the reset button on me. Where does your reset button take you?

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