The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
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…
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…
April 28th, 2025
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?