What is the rise of AI going to do for book sales?
If you can get the information you need, on demand, bespoke to whatever situation you’re in
Why spend hours reading “around” the key point you need?
I can think of one: enjoyment
But the factual research we all do, why both? Surely this is going to drastically change things?
I also imagine the barrier to entry as an author just got lower, given people who previously couldn’t articulate their thoughts into words, can now just ask an AI…
Spot on.
Well… When there is no more free money hot off the press… Will there even be data centers big enough to support this kind of system or will it collapse along with the fiat system?? Personally I think we’re going to see more of a tribulation than a simple crash or modern government collapse… The incentives to be YouTubers will even go away. How will we learn from then on?? I think the ways of Tartaria might come into effect… The tartars build the wonderful buildings we see around the world and there is no evidence of a financial benefit from it… It seems people united to just do things. I can only hope that’s the future Bitcoin promotes 🙏🏻
I love this concept. Similar to what nostr:nprofile1qqstsw3gkljwt5stm9svt7htvcjlj4ffze4chkcyt4pxxj30xkgeg5qprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyv8wumn8ghj7am9d33k7mt99ehx7um5wgh8w6twv5nl7wlk touched on in our episode
The Medici artistic mandates throughout Italy, we’re not for an immediate Roi, but an eternal impact
Can you expand more. How do you see us building this future? How do we become that?
I think it might helped authors get more to the point in their writing. There are those mainstream books that don't actually say anything, or maybe it has like 1 maybe 2 points, but it's a 200+ page book with 10-12 chapters, and the seller is basically just promoting something else for the reader to buy.
I try my best to not write fluff in my books.
Such a good point. It can destroy business books. Most nonfiction in that category can be summed up in a tweet. The more complex concepts might stretch across a couple pages. The rest of the content are case studies hitting home the same points.
It's rare that nonfiction is so content dense it really needs to be read cover to cover.
For syntopical reading, a reader should approach books with intent and selfishness from the start anyway. With AI tools such as NotebookLM that is only trained on materials the user provides, the reader has a new way of engaging and interacting with books.
Read the top 6 books on a subject, highlighting, asking questions, continuing deeper research and you're likely in the top 10% experts on that subject globally. Find gaps in the materials and reach out to the authors for more, you're approaching the top 5%.
But now with AI, you have this whole new level where you can interact with the materials directly and it engages with you back. For active readers this is going to be a profound change.
For authors, think of your books as not only educating the readers but training their AI tools as well.
Holy shit. I’ve never heard of this approach before. I get through a book a week roughly, and have a “list” which I’ve got from the last 3 years since I started tracking more closely, with a short rating and note on each. This would totally change the process. Love it
Will dig deeper. Thank you
And accomplishment. Starting and reading and finishing a book is a journey with the author, and it feels good. In addition, an author can, through a book, bring about awareness of ideas and perspectives I may not have been aware of.
I was wondering what your take would be on this one. Interesting. And yes that resonates. A true journey sometimes
