The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
April 28th, 2025
The experiment began with a must-read in WIRED magazine on how to think about AI and our relationship to it, via an interview with Andrea Colamedici, author of the book “Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality.” “It’s not just a book but a philosophical experiment, a performance. My aim was to raise…
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…
July 26th, 2024
Ingram’s stand on book censorship is clear. Like most publishers and distributors it is opposed. As it at one point posted to Facebook during Banned Books Week, “Censorship Leaves Us in the Dark – Keep the Light On.” At the same time, like most book publishers and distributors, it has to make prudent decisions about…