In 2021, top-10 audiobook publisher Podium expanded into ebooks, and just recently it announced print retail services for its stable of authors. Podium will use Ingram’s Two Rivers for distribution to the retail market.
Podium is best known for licensing the audiobook rights of successful indie authors; hiring professional, quality narrators; then selling primarily through Amazon’s Audible. When we interviewed CEO Scott Dickey about the ebook expansion two years ago, he described Podium’s business partly as a service model for high-performing indie authors who “just want to write.” This latest expansion is a logical outgrowth of that model. Learn more.
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
