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 BuyMarch 12th, 2026
I’m just back to my hotel after three days at the London Book Fair, the 55-year-old annual publishing rights trading event, feeling a little melancholy. The fair is mainly a schmoozefest. Colleagues old and new. This year’s slogan was “defining the future of creative content,” although I found no new definitions. People assumed you were…
November 12th, 2025
This is a 4,000+ word blog post. It can take 20 minutes to read, aka, an eternity. I apologize. I’ve been working on AI licensing issues for over a year now, and I wanted to share some of what I’ve learned. Here are the topics I’ll cover: Licensing for AI: Understanding the landscape and the…
November 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. But it is also about technology in the age of AI. It would be impossible to recap the whole story of metadata for books here, except in the clumsiest of…
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…
