News: Rakuten Kobo Took a "Book Community First" Approach to AI — and Rejected 45 Percent of Submissions

AskAlli: Self-Publishing Advice Podcast by Alliance of Independent Authors

On this episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Dan Holloway reports on a revealing piece by Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn, who explains why Kobo rejected 45 percent of self-published submissions in 2025 — most of them...View more