He's Doubling Down on AI and IP While Everyone Else Is Panicking

About this episode

The episode discusses the intersection of AI and publishing, featuring insights from Dan Curran on how AI can enhance the writing process.

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life. I was a snob about AI in publishing. I'll just say it. When companies started popping up in late 2022 promising to use AI to write books, I had the same reaction I once had to self publishing when I was still in the traditional world: I want nothing to do with these people. Dan Curran has made me reconsider—some of it, anyway. Not because he convinced me AI can match what a skilled ghost writer or developmental editor does (I don't think it can, at least not yet) but what he’s building at Chapters may be as interesting as the manuscript. Dan spent a decade running a company that interviewed scientists and PhDs for technical writing. When ChatGPT launched, he didn't use AI to…

People in this episode

Host: Anna David

Guest: Dan Curran

Topics covered

• AI in publishing
• authority building books
• revenue generation
• technical writing
• self-publishing

Keywords

• AI
• publishing
• authority building
• revenue
• technical writing
• self-publishing
• manuscript

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chapters, sevenfigurebooks.com

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