Coral Wire — Sun, Oct 25 2026

The Coral Index closed at 38/100 — Headwinds. 11 graded stories fed that reading.

• Kindle Unlimited payout pool tops $5 billion this monthMarket — October payouts alone are set to run around $66 million, Mark Williams noted, as YouTube separately moves toward audiobooks.
• Copyright Alliance flags campaign season's licensing gray zoneLegal — The group walks through why political uses of music, characters and slogans sit in a legal gray zone rather than a settled rule
• Catapult Books sold, shutting down within daysMarket — The sale transfers only assets, and the roughly 20-person staff union was told their jobs will not carry over to the buyer.
• KDP review of Amazon contract finds AI silence, five-day exitLegal — The read confirms Amazon's KDP terms never mention AI or model training, leaving the question unresolved rather than ruled out

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