This tech company wants to use AI to publish 8000 books next year. Is this a bad sign for book publishers? | CBC Arts LoadedThis tech company wants to use AI to publish 8000 books next year. Is this a bad sign for book publishers?
Spines is a tech startup that wants to use AI to edit, proofread, design and distribute 8000 books next year. But is it democratizing the publishing process, or potentially devaluing the artform? It's kind of taken me back to the late '90s working at Chapters in Mississauga, when I was running the local authors program. Folks would show up with a thing they'd printed, and it was often something similar to. They'd had an experience, and that's theirs; I love that for them. But they had a book that they wanted to sell, and it looked a lot like what Spines seems to be facilitating.