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July 11th, 2025

AI & the Future of Publishing: Using AI to Supercharge Book Marketing

The best presentation about AI and book publishing that I’ve ever “seen” is Keith Riegert’s June presentation to the U.S. Book Show in New York. (The show was a great success!) Slide by slide, 90 slides in all, Keith paints a vivid picture of AI’s applicability to book publishing today, and its plausible future within…

April 28th, 2025

Book Translation in the AI Era: An Experiment

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?

August 11th, 2024

AI: A Story in Video

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…

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