Posted on August 15, 2023 at 9:02 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The publishing experts we follow have plenty of updates and advice on tech tools to offer.
Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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Amazon's latest AI tool will summarize customer reviews for you: The retail giant has rolled out a new feature that will, if a producer enables it, allow US mobile shoppers to see a tech-generated summary of customer reviews (CNET).
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The rise of BookTok titles has meant less visibility for other titles: The Passive Guy shares his take (spoiler — he's shedding no tears) on a Guardian piece about trad-pub's reaction to TikTok book phenoms (The Passive Voice).
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Amazon reverses course on "garbage books": Jane Friedman finally convinced Amazon to pull down books that purported to be written by her, but in fact weren't (Decrypt).
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Dear author, are you human?: Victoria Strauss talks to representatives of two services that want to "certify," so to speak, that creative work is of human origin (or mostly so) and not AI-generated (Writer Beware).
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