All sorts of stuff about books and book manufacturing
This seems like a good little idea. BookRiot has set up a survey researching this question. There’s a link to the survey here. If we only knew what we all think about AI, we might be able to discuss it a little less emotionally.
This is a deceptively tricky question. Sales numbers are almost impossible to come by. For a publisher, revealing an author’s sales is almost tantamount to revealing their income, so the one source which would really know is constrained from making any revelations. The Association of American Publishers will periodically issue authoritative numbers (generally in dollars), […]
Here’s a sign of the times. Oxford University Press’ booth at the American Library Association’s 150th Annual Conference in June in Chicago features nary a book. Seems like others still believe that libraries are interested in print books! In a nice simultaneous announcement Publishing Perspectives brings us a story under the title “Better Late Than […]
We’ve all heard about those book auctions which literary agents set up, where, the idea is, publishers will vie with one another in offering ever more favorable terms in order to sign up a hot property. They generally take place before the book is written, so involve a belief by the publisher that the author […]
No. The different kind of royalty. Publishing Perspectives brings us a report on an effort in Poland to get the government to legislate a 10% royalty based on the retail price of the book. The Unia Literacka (pron. Oonia Literatzka), the Polish writers’ union, has submitted a proposal to the government, and is in discussions […]
Barack Obama has announced his annual summer reading list: Kin, by Tayari JonesThe Things We Never Say, by Elizabeth StroutA World Appears, by Michael PollanWhistler, by Ann PatchettThis Land Is Your Land, by Beverly GageVigil, by George SaundersOne Sun Only, by Camille BordasSeek Immediate Shelter, by Vincent YuData Empire, by Roopika RisamTranscription, by Ben LernerCool Machine, […]
In a response to my recent post on compiling AI books, Thad McIlroy sent a link to a paper on the topic, “Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books” by Tuhin Chakrabarty, Xinyue Liu, Jane C. Ginsburg, and Paramveer Dhillon. He has himself written about it, less than flatteringly, at The Future of […]
Is this it, at last? The brilliant book written by AI? Probably not, though the headline at The Bookseller does raise hopes. It reads ‘Genius novel’ sold in six and seven-figure deals at auction pulled over suspected AI use. The Mirror reports the story without the need for a subscription. Having been hailed as a […]
Rose Horowitch’s article in The Atlantic August issue has got The New Publishing Standard all riled up (and me too; I had to force myself to finish it). TNPS has published two articles debunking Ms H. Here’s the first and here’s the second one. He focuses a lot on Horowitch’s analytical tool of measuring sentence […]
Quantum-resistance just sounds like something that couldn’t possibly apply to printing, and in so far as we focus on the putting of ink onto paper, it doesn’t. But almost all printers now live in a digital world — almost every print job now travels from buyer to printer online, and thus is in theory hackable, […]