Comment on Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America

veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• bloup@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s actually wild how with the just-in-time economy, it has never required less capital investment to start a business like a book publisher. And yet it seems like the only people that take advantage of it are average schmo “grindset grifters” selling junk while all of the people with the real economic power literally beg the institutions out of abused them since the very beginning of their industry to please do the right thing.

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  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I tried to read about “just-in-time economy” but I really don’t see how it would apply to book market?

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    • bloup@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It means that today pretty much anybody can start a book publishing company, because just-in-time print shops will handle literally all of the expensive overhead that is associated with running a publishing company and just print whatever you hire them to print on demand for you once customers actually place orders, sometimes even on a commission basis so you don’t even have to pay the money unless people are actually buying the books you are publishing.

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      • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I guess, but print on demand is also more expensive than printing in bulk, when looking per unit, and of lower quality (paper and binding). I’m not too familiar with the details of book publishing but I wouldn’t expect that people are not using this route simply because they failed to notice its benefits.

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  • veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d take it part of the problem is that publisher is quite a “unglorious” job to say somehow. Like, it’s difficult to make it look fancy or interesting enough that you’d take effort, time and resources from other things you could be doing - such as, ya know, writing the story you want to write - to have to do that.

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• anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is that like a cooperative but in germany?

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  • veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh it’s for the correct sound distinction. Compare naïve vs naive (eg.: glaive).

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• balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And I don’t care if something is written by AI. As people we care about the quality of the output.

  We know AI by default just creates slop but with a human in the loop, it’s possible to get inspiration for scenes, brainstorming, discuss ideas etc.

  I think a good writer would use it this way.

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  • veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    AI is much like smoking (hey, it is killing the atmosphere! ). Even if a good writer uses it, the usage itseld can still cause harm for others.

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