A Concise Guide to Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Writers and Publishers
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Preview and BuySeptember 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…
July 23rd, 2025
This morning, I was a little relieved when I first read “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” (pdf) and saw that there was no mention of copyright. (The closest it comes is a mention of IP: “It is also essential for the U.S. government to effectively address security risks to American AI companies, talent,…
July 11th, 2025
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…
