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A debut author's $2 million book contract was cancelled over suspected AI use, sparking debate about whether using AI to create popular work should be considered a problem.
Phil Eaton reflects on the first six months of The Consensus, a bootstrapped software infrastructure publication, covering growth in articles, indexed jobs, and new subscriber features.
Aveiro is a product that lets you publish websites, newsletters, and social posts using AI agents.
Hugh Howey reflects on how AI writing is upending the publishing industry, citing a $2.4M debut book deal that fell apart over AI authorship concerns.
Writers are deliberately altering their prose to avoid AI-like patterns, such as avoiding em dashes and tripartite lists, as part of a growing 'anti-AI literary counterculture' to signal human authorship.
A 1997 tutorial explaining how to use sed and sort to create formatted indexes for books from raw term-page number lists.
Fedica 2.0 is a tool for publishing and growing profiles across multiple social apps.
Forgeon is a platform for creating, publishing, and experiencing interactive stories. It is featured on Product Hunt.
Riverside adds newsletter publishing with AI conversion from recordings, plus multi-camera and AI enhancements.
A compilation of authors offering DRM-free books, including sample chapters and links to download, along with resources for finding more DRM-free and out-of-copyright ebooks.
An analysis of AI-generated children's books on Amazon, highlighting pervasive quality issues and bizarre visual errors ("body horror") that undermine the promise of advanced AI models.
An article discussing the reliance on GitHub for publishing Rust packages on crates.io, arguing that it should not be a mandatory dependency.
An AI agent is introduced to handle publishing tasks, allowing other agents or humans to concentrate on core work.
The number of AI-generated books has skyrocketed in just three years, highlighting a significant trend in publishing.
A new scientific analysis reveals that the explosion of e-books on Amazon since late 2022 is entirely driven by AI-generated content, which now vastly outnumbers human-written books.
Tim Ferriss presents data showing his self-help book sales have plummeted up to 80% since the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT, and broader industry data shows self-help nonfiction sales down 26% in Q1 2026, suggesting AI is disrupting the genre.
Tim Ferriss shares a blog post analyzing how AI and LLMs have disrupted how-to nonfiction book sales, using his own sales data as evidence.
A software developer describes building a Git-tracked book production pipeline using open-source tools, bypassing traditional Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Word workflows for self-publishing novels.
Publora is a publishing API designed for the agent era, aiming to simplify content publishing for AI agents.
The article discusses the controversy over a Commonwealth Foundation Short Story Prize winner that was likely co-authored by AI, highlighting the use of AI tools like Gemini to assess the writing and the implications for trust in literary publishing.