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…
May 25th, 2024
The AI Revolution in Book PublishingA Concise Guide to Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Writers and Publishers Order the book here or on Amazon. Are you feeling left out of the conversation about book publishing, authoring and artificial intelligence? Most publishers and authors are — it’s not just you. The AI Revolution in Book Publishing will…
November 30th, 2022
NOTE: This new version of my startup report was published by Publishers Weekly in November, 2022, with the title: Book Publishing Startups in the United States 2022: Industry Insights, Analysis, and Investment Opportunities. It is fully updated; hundreds of new listings, and all of the analysis reconsidered. The first version of the report, called An…
October 28th, 2022
The new PageBreak 2022 Conference launched in San Francisco Wednesday night with a reception at the Internet Archive and a delightful tour of the facility by the amazing Brewster Kahle. Here’s the conference program. I’m presenting Friday on my new pet topic: NFTs and publishing. The session description is “NFTs, blockchain, crypto, Web 3 are…
October 16th, 2022
My news story about Book.io has just been published in Publishers Weekly (PW), in the weekly print edition and online. It was prompted by the news that Ingram has made an investment in the company, and anything that Ingram invests in is going to draw the publishing industry’s attention. (And now, a day after this…