Tag: AI in publishing
Consumers Prefer AI-Generated Images To The Real Thing: Implications for the Publishing Industry
To those on the Luddite Fringe, you have my sympathies. Keep standing on the beach, watching the tide come in all around you. King Canute would be proud!
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AI: A Powerful Tool for Uncovering Ancient Texts (When It’s Not Stealing Our Souls and Devouring Our Children)
For fiction writers, this opens up huge new areas of fictional speculation and storytelling, and savvy authors will be wanting to know more and do more, not hide behind the Luddite Fringe’s efforts to keep publishing in twentieth century chains.
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From Hefty Print Volumes to Full-On AI: The Evolution of Encyclopaedia Britannica and Its Lessons for Publishing
Ignore the Luddite Fringe. Embracing technological innovation, particularly AI, is not just an opportunity but a necessity in meeting the changing demands of learners, educators and trade consumers in the 21st century.
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Publishing Advisory: AI and Publishing: Building a Successful Strategy – webinar 22 January 2025
Recommended for those who think AI is going to steal their jobs. Adapt and thrive!
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Publishing Advisory: “Automate the Tedious, Amplify the Creative: Your AI Marketing Companion” – Online Workshop, 8 January
Learn how AI can enhance book marketing and support authors in our workshop. Join us on 8 January 2025 to discover AI tools for deeper reader connections and sustainable marketing.
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Squandered Opportunities – AI is not the publishing industry’s enemy. Rather, engaged with properly, it can be one of our greatest assets
We need to move forward in 2025, not try turn the clock back to 1995, and that means making and accepting compromises along the way, and at the same time being willing to experiment, innovate and seize new opportunities.
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Adapt and Thrive: AI Translation is the Game-Changer’s Game-Changer
Imagine for one moment if, somehow, the Bertelsmann buy-out of Simon & Schuster had been successful and the ever-tuxedoed Count Dohle was still emerging from the grave each night to dictate PRH policy. There would have been no Spotify deal and no unprecedented surge in the fortunes of the audiobook industry.
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Beware the Future! It’s Already Here
“AI can never replace human creativity!” So why are you running about like a headless chicken because your job is at risk?
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No, the Creatives’ Rights Alliance does not speak for 500,000 people. Nicola Solomon needs to heed her own demands about consultation
And one has to wonder how it is that all these organisations have joined the Creatives’ Rights Alliance at the same time. Should we be reporting that to the competition authorities?
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As more academic publishers embrace AI, trade publishers need to get off the fence
Curiously I’m not seeing many big publishers writing to their authors and asking if they want their publisher to continue to stick its head in the sand so the authors miss out on all these new revenue streams.
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Ingram’s 2000s version of AI bans Thad McIlroy book on 2020s AI in publishing
This twentieth-century sledge-hammer to crack a nut approach to policing its catalogue flies in the face of the company’s otherwise deserved image as being at the forefront of the publishing revolution.
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“Publishers are already using way too much AI” (and other nonsense)
Just as AI is not to be afforded copyright protection by human law, nor is it to be afforded the assumption of innocence until proven guilty in the court of human opinion. At least, not by writers who think their job is above the law of Darwinian natural selection and survival of the fittest.
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