9 Ways That Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Disrupt Authors And The Publishing Industry. An Update With Joanna Penn And Nick Thacker

Four years ago, in July 2019, I put out a podcast episode that went through the 9 disruptions I saw coming for authors and publishing in the next decade. It turns out that most are happening faster than even I expected. In this episode, Nick Thacker and I discuss some of the main points.

In the intro, I go through other aspects of the nine ways (notes and links below), the USA Today Bestseller list is back; TikTok moves into eCommerce [The Verge]; and Orna Ross and I discuss generative AI for authors on the Self Publishing Advice Podcast.

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Nick Thacker is the USA Today bestselling author of over 40 books, including thrillers, action-adventure, and nonfiction. He also helps indie authors through his courses, coaching, and also by working with Draft2Digital.

You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

Show Notes

* Enthusiasm for AI tools as part of the creative process

* Collaborating with AI as an author

* Using AI for tasks outside of your “zone of genius”

* How Draft2Digital may handle the explosion of content

* The future of generative search for book discoverability

* Creating audiobooks with voice clones

* Copyright issues around AI-generated content

* How to stay positive and what to focus on

You can find Nick at NickThacker.com

Overview of the 9 disruptions

Here’s the overview. These are in no particular order. Click here to read or listen to the original episode. You can also find more podcast episodes, articles etc here on my Future page.

* Non-fiction books, blog posts, and news articles will be written by AI [discussed with Nick below]

* Copyright law will be challenged as books are used to train AIs which then produ...