A Concise Guide to Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Writers and Publishers
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A book publisher's guide to creating and distributing metadata for print and ebooks
Preview and BuyApril 28th, 2025
My first thoughts: Have I broken any laws, or abrogated any rights? If I paid my Italian friend to read it to me live in translation, would that be any different from a rights perspective? When Edizioni Tlon sells the English-language rights to a U.S. publisher, could I then be somehow charged with illegal access to the book?
January 26th, 2025
First revision, February 3, 2025Second revision, April 14, 2025 I’ve realized that amidst all of my excitement around what AI can do for authors and publishers (in the midst of a great many AI threats, challenges and concerns), I’ve neglected to be explicit about what publishers can do, from a strategic perspective. Here’s my first…
August 11th, 2024
Generative AI does amazing things with text, but it shines most brightly with images, both 2D and in video. Sometimes it’s short videos that showcase what AI is capable of. There have also been some very funny videos posted that poke fun at AI and its uncertain progress, amidst great hype. I want to share…
August 4th, 2024
(Note, after publication: The headline of this post is meant to be ironic, but I can see it doesn’t parse that way.) There are two separate, though related, camps of AI naysayers. One camp accepts that the latest AI technology is indeed powerful, and that its tremendous power is at the heart of the AI…
