It’s Over: Harlequin Historical Romance Concedes Defeat As Indies Dominate The Charts

Описание: This week: The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs, but your book prices won't budge. Harlequin concedes defeat to Kindle Unlimited authors by closing its Historical Romance line after nearly 40 years. BookFunnel launches digital ebook signing that soon could include personalized voice messages. Plus, our AI Super Segment covers three frontier model releases in one week, Grok's revolutionary four-agent writing team, ElevenLabs' complete audiobooks toolkit, the Perplexity Pro trap threatening authors, Google's WebMCP standard that replaces SEO, and the free Pomelli tool that turns your book cover into professional marketing photos in three clicks.

0:00 - Intro
1:15 - Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump's Tariffs
2:52 - Harlequin Closes Historical Romance Series
9:11 - BookFunnel's New eBook Citing Feature & Pricing
16:06 - Perplexity Prose: AI Tool Trap for Authors
25:14 - Timothy Finder: New Target Reader Tool
26:55 - ElevenLabs Launches Complete Audiobook Toolkit
30:23 - Q&A: Why Are Conservatives Bad at Creative Arts?
34:48 - AI Agents Reshaping Book Discovery
38:44 - Google's Pelli Photo Shoot for Book Marketing
48:22 - AI News: Gemini 3.1 Pro & Claude Sonnet 4.6
54:00 - Outro: Patron Q&A & Tax Questions with CPA

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