2024-01-01
“Poets and novelists once turned to séances, Ouija boards and automatic writing for inspiration. Now they can summon a chatbot to their laptops.” Our critic @aoscott on how writers are incorporating A.I. into their fiction — as co-author, confidant, muse. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
How some authors are embracing ChatGPT and other chatbots as the latest iteration of an ancient literary conceit, a writer's “muse”
GROK: Sit down, you stupid meatbag, and I'll tell you an epic cosmic story that would make Rick Sanchez impressed. [embedded post] @afnarratives.bsky.social : Why would you do thi...
2023-12-31
“Poets and novelists once turned to séances, Ouija boards and automatic writing for inspiration. Now they can summon a chatbot to their laptops.” Our critic @aoscott on how writers are incorporating A.I. into their fiction — as co-author, confidant, muse. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
How some authors are embracing ChatGPT and other chatbots as the latest iteration of an ancient literary conceit, a writer's “muse”
GROK: Sit down, you stupid meatbag, and I'll tell you an epic cosmic story that would make Rick Sanchez impressed. [embedded post] @afnarratives.bsky.social : Why would you do thi...
2023-12-30
“Poets and novelists once turned to séances, Ouija boards and automatic writing for inspiration. Now they can summon a chatbot to their laptops.” Our critic @aoscott on how writers are incorporating A.I. into their fiction — as co-author, confidant, muse. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
How some authors are embracing ChatGPT and other chatbots as the latest iteration of an ancient literary conceit, a writer's “muse”
What happens to literature when writers embrace A.I. as their muse? — The robots of literature and movies usually present either an existential danger or an erotic frisson. Threa...
2023-07-04
Tiktok sells a lot of books. Now its parent company, ByteDance, is launching a publishing company, leaving many in the book world to wonder if it would will create an uneven playing field. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Sources detail ByteDance's book publishing push and uneven playing field concerns; BookScan: 100+ authors with large #BookTok followings had $760M in 2022 sales
2020-12-31
“I expect that at the end of the year, when you look at the final numbers,” Madeline McIntosh, chief executive of Penguin Random House U.S., said of the publishing industry, “it will have been the best year in a very long time” https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Association of American Publishers: audiobooks revenue is up 17%+ YoY, e-book sales are up 16%+; NPD BookScan says US print book sales are up ~8% in 2020
“It was really a tale of two cities,” said Dennis Abboud, whose company distributes books to major retailers like Walmart, Target and Costco. “The beginning of the year was mega soft, and the end of the year was mega strong.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Association of American Publishers: audiobooks revenue is up 17%+ YoY, e-book sales are up 16%+; NPD BookScan says US print book sales are up ~8% in 2020
2020-06-02
Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette and Wiley accused Internet Archive of piracy, for making over 1 million books free online during the coronavirus outbreak https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, HarperCollins sue Internet Archive, saying its project to let users borrow ebooks scanned from books violates copyrights
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2020-02-27
“The company pursued its naïvely utopian — and undeniably self-serving — goal with a tragic disregard for consequences,” Levy writes of Facebook https://www.nytimes.com/...
The Verge
Q&A with Steven Levy on his new book, “Facebook: The Inside Story”, Instagram, interviewing Facebook executives, and the company's future after Mark Zuckerberg
and undeniably self-serving — goal with a tragic disregard for consequences,” Levy writes of Facebook https://www.nytimes.com/... Andrew Adonis / @andrew_adonis : ‘The eye of Sauro...