Friday Folio: August 11, 2023
I’m back — well I’ve been back, but but I’m back to book news. Let’s get on with it.
The Washington Post did an explainer about hockey romance, and what’s going on with it right now. It’s not my preferred kind of romance, so I can’t comment, but it’s nice that they put resources to treating romance seriously.
Bookriot on why we should read old school romance.
Scammers were using AI to create books, put them under an established author’s name, and sell them on Amazon. After people screamed about how wrong it is, Amazon finally took them down.
Are books a way to stop being distracted by devices? I use them that way. Via the Wall Street Journal.
Speaking of AI, I knew a few writers whose books were fed into AI without their permission/knowledge/etc. to create the site Prosecraft, which claimed to give metrics to author’s works. Of COURSE everyone screamed about this too, and he took it down, but so far I haven’t seen anything about him undoing the part where he fed them into AI. I’m sure we’re going to find out because one of the authors he stole from is Nora Roberts. She does not play. Twitter may be dying, but seeing how many people said exactly this was fun.
