Iranian Drones Destroy Amazon Data Centers, Amazon.com Goes Down | Author Update

Week Ending March 6, 2026

In this week’s Author Update, we unpack how world events are impacting your author business, Audible’s aggressive response to Spotify, why Substack may be quietly hurting your Google rankings, and whether Apple’s new $600 laptop could be a smart buy for writers.

We also look at ChatGPT’s growing ability to act like a digital assistant, the Authors Guild’s new line between human and AI-created work, reports of Meta employees viewing private videos, and the ways AI is already reshaping the English language.

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