Watching the global AI scene evolve, it’s clear that many publishers and authors in the US, and even more in the UK, blindly fixating on these issues and unable/unwilling to see the bigger picture thanks to a handful of Luddite influencers, stand to be left behind as AI-assisted publishing moves forward without them.
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Recommended for all parties committed to moving our industry forward in the age of AI.
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Luddites of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your brain cells. Oh, and the chance of thriving as the industry evolves.
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Just who do authors think is in charge here? Traditionally, publishers do not give authors control over where their books are sold or in what format, or what else the publisher might do to maximise revenues. If we authors don’t like that, we can self-publish.
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Much of the world has simply skipped the entire landline/PC/dialup era and almost overnight gone straight from never dreaming of owning a phone and never having seen a computer, to having a 5G smartphone in their hands.
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The opponents of AI are missing opportunities to do deals that will favour creatives, for the sake of a sound-tough soundbite.
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The dam has broken. Now to contain the floods and redirect the life-giving water to new pastures....
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How many of us today are doing our job in the same way it was done late last century? More...
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This is going to be a big disappointment for the Luddite camp hoping the NYT lawsuit against...
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“Not only does AI liberate time, it also replaces an old equation—that wisdom flows from...
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What Spotify and others did was to expand the (music) market beyond the wildest dreams of music artists and publishers.
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The publishing industry can no more put the AI genie back in the bottle than it could the paperback genie, the word-processor genie, the email submissions genie, the social media genie, the self-publishing genie, the subscription genie and the genies for every other industry development that has been fought tooth and nail while screaming The Sky Is Falling, before slow but inevitable acceptance and even slower embrace.
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