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 BuyNovember 5th, 2025
Beware: This post talks about metadata for books, and it talks about ONIX, the data format used to convey metadata for the retailing of books. It would be impossible to recap the whole story of metadata for books here, except in the clumsiest of fashions, and so if this is a topic that mystifies, or…
September 18th, 2025
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG), in partnership with BookNet Canada, fielded a survey during June and July this year to better understand AI adoption in the book publishing industry. It’s the first comprehensive survey by a U.S. publishing association (see below for other studies). In a webinar, presented earlier today by BISG’s Brooke Horn…
September 9th, 2025
I’m posting this to help ALLi — The Alliance of Independent Authors — get the word out about the update to their groundbreaking Indie Author Income Survey 2023. As ALLi puts it: IT’S TIME to update the story only you can tell! ALLi’s 2025 Author Income Survey is now open and we need your data—anonymously—to…
August 18th, 2025
(First published January 26, 2025. 1st revision, February 3, 2025; 2nd revision, April 14, 2025) Third revision, August 18, 2025 (with corrections and add’l links, August 28, 2025) Also available as a PDF. This short document is intended for companies who have independently decided that they want to move forward in AI adoption, and have…
