A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence (AI) 👇 www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub... #BookSky - ThreadSky

the-bookseller.bsky.social • 90 days ago

A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence (AI) 👇 https://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-publisher-spines-aims-to-disrupt-industry-by-using-ai-to-publish-8000-books-in-2025-alone?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Bluesky&utm_campaign=BlueskyLink #BookSky

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carrier-media.co.uk•90 days ago

I can't help but feel like what will be created is, thousands of soundlike books easily confused with actual titles written by humans to be read by humans. Books that will be accidentally purchased by Grandma in the run up to Christmas.

chaveraedwards.bsky.social•90 days ago

They look like the last time they read a book was in high school.

hermitspeaks.bsky.social•90 days ago

When AI takes over books and music, it will be regurgitating what it learned from existing writings. I prefer original human creativity. #music #books #art #original

earevalomelville.bsky.social•89 days ago

Disruptive excess of recycled paper in 2026?

shadowmaat.bsky.social•89 days ago

Read through their T&C. They sound like one of those fake "publisher" scams you hear about on Writer Beware.

midatlantica.bsky.social•90 days ago

Amazon, Etsy, all the online marketplaces have been beset by this for the past couple years. Most of the people churning this dreck out have the wherewithal to hide their faces, but not this doofus bro brood. No, they smell investment opportunities

woowoospicy.com•90 days ago

these guys look like they're about to launch an overpriced artisanal burger chain

kitkatgirl.bsky.social•90 days ago

Who wants this? Who is this for-who is the audience for this “product”?

svelle.bsky.social•90 days ago

Venture Capitalists and Private Equity firms.

cuneform.bsky.social•90 days ago

Why do they all look like clones?

whusseyauthor.bsky.social•90 days ago

Basically, theft

annemargaretdaniel.bsky.social•90 days ago

Lev, Yehuda, Nir, Niv: they actually look AI generated in this photograph 😳

annemargaretdaniel.bsky.social•90 days ago

Spines is a garbage hole, pass it on.

chuchotements.bsky.social•90 days ago

Why stop there, let the readers be disruptive too : just let AIs read those books😅

carrier-media.co.uk•90 days ago

What we really need is Ai to reply to all the people that send us Spam email.

I'd love to be able to forward emails to a bot who could occupy SEO Spam Co. with daft follow up questions.

kathall.bsky.social•90 days ago

This emphasis on AI + speed + 'disruption' does not bode well for the quality of the books being churned out.

wayofthelotus.bsky.social•90 days ago

Or society as a whole tbh

libraries4win.bsky.social•90 days ago

A great book is not an amalgam of everyone else's book. A great book breaks new ground in style or content. Librarians can tell when the book is AI. They don't want them. Neither do I.

bbqbaron.bsky.social•90 days ago

MORE BOOK EQUALS MORE WISDOM, MORE FEELINGS. ANYTHING OF VALUE SCALES LINEARLY AND STACKS ADDITIVELY. MORE. MORE. MORE.

shadowlucidmarcy.bsky.social•88 days ago

No AI will ever write anything nearly as simultaneously good and bad as My Immortal

tamigoldmann.bsky.social•89 days ago

Books with predictable story plots. Why would anyone buy them?

laikax.bsky.social•90 days ago

Thanks, now I know to never buy a Spines lump of auto word assembly.

srfva.bsky.social•88 days ago

And they wonder why "techbro" is a derogatory term. I really hope there will be some designation attached to books published using AI so I can spend my money elsewhere.

adeepgreenheart.bsky.social•90 days ago

Harry Potter and the Seven Fingered Generic Persona.

donquix.bsky.social•90 days ago

Put your money in a pile and burn it 🔥

littleacornsbooks.bsky.social•90 days ago

Note to self: avoid any orders for these books/authors. Thanks for heads' up 📚

penzerker.bsky.social•89 days ago

They will rapidly collapse and I would bet 100$ right now that several of them embezzle a bunch of money and disappear leaving their investors crying.

mthead.bsky.social•90 days ago

I can't wait for every single one to sell double-digit copies, tops.

Their business model *probably* means they'll still walk away with profit once the bottom drops out...but one can hope.

ipafan.bsky.social•90 days ago

the books will be absolutely rubbish

kevvokreates.bsky.social•90 days ago

I’m suddenly feeling so much better about the books I’m making.

ghgirl.bsky.social•90 days ago

Obviously these bros seem AI generated but I bet we can make better AI replicas of them 🙄. Easy solution is that all sane people refuse to even engage or buy any of this garbage.

davidwrites1.bsky.social•90 days ago

This is a pay-to-play ‘publisher’ who claims to be using AI to edit and distribute books, not write them. The 8,000 books in 2025 is a target they made up. They will publish as many or as few books as people pay them to (at $3k-$5k per book). While the threat of ‘AI’ is real, this is silly.

atbeaune.bsky.social•6 days ago

Memo to me:
Avoid Spines.

dustinheron.bsky.social•90 days ago

Why are you even promoting this shit?

strathearnrose.bsky.social•90 days ago

They’ll be the equivalent of slurry

jule9.bsky.social•90 days ago

If they publish 8k books/yr (with no editing & a machine to copy-edit, typeset, proofread, design & upload the digital file) that’s 154/week or 22/day) & at £5k/book, that’s an income of £110k/day & an impressive £40m/year, so surely other digital publishers will rush to copy this lucrative project.

missadadoom.bsky.social•90 days ago

Good luck finding 8,000 authors to give them $5k a throw...

christophj.bsky.social•90 days ago

If I ever see these books in bookstores I will decorate them with special stickers!

christophj.bsky.social•90 days ago

Like these!

meakamey.bsky.social•90 days ago

OFFS

midsea.bsky.social•88 days ago

I’ve said it once I’ll say it again “Why the hell should anyone be bothered to read a book they couldn’t even be bothered to write?!!!!!” 😒

midsea.bsky.social•88 days ago

By “distrupt” you mean ruin via con/scaming readers into buying trash and flooding the market with trash till customers give up even looking at anything they aren’t recomended by real people and stop buying books cause all they can find is trash 🤨.

alecbohmswagon.bsky.social•90 days ago

chrissmithmuso.bsky.social•90 days ago

Fuck this techbro bullshit.

officialblacksands.bsky.social•90 days ago

Tech bro babble never gets old. Coins, NFTs, now AI. All pump and no progress.

endofdaysonmars.bsky.social•90 days ago

so avoid all books from this company, got it.

lapsedcanadian.bsky.social•90 days ago

IF
IT'S
NOT
WORTH
WRITING
IT'S
NOT
WORTH
READING

jayfrosting.net•89 days ago

Someone would first have to invent an artificial intelligence.

nickdachrome.bsky.social•90 days ago

I really don’t want to be negative here on the sky…
But this publisher… I curse their entire bloodline.

kaldrenon.bsky.social•87 days ago

I am setting these men on fire with my mind.

peltast1.bsky.social•90 days ago

I will pay extra for online or dead tree bookstores that promise to include zero LLM-generated "content" anywhere in the store premises.

perpelxity.bsky.social•90 days ago

I'm still waiting for Ai to cure its first disease.
No one wants these Botox Valley frauds.

tsambuca.bsky.social•89 days ago

Each book will be slightly different, just like these 4 losers.

xyxox.bsky.social•90 days ago

Oh, and not to mention these people are THIEVES.

xyxox.bsky.social•90 days ago

So 8000 piles of crap. Got it. Will avoid every one of them.

bskylife.bsky.social•90 days ago

Even the picture looks AI generated.

joshb4joshua.bsky.social•90 days ago

Isn’t “disrupt” long past its sell-by date as a marketing buzzword?

squichmitch.bsky.social•90 days ago

"We stole brilliant well written novels by underpaid writers to churn out 8,000 piles of crappy artificial shite"

Disrupting the same way a cow disrupts grass

nilsbohr.bsky.social•90 days ago

When tech bros say they’re going to “disrupt” an industry they mean “make it shitty while exploiting and immiserating as many people as possible”.

andrewmreichart.bsky.social•88 days ago

Hey, that’s not fair. What they also mean is creating remarkable money-making opportunities for people like themselves whose sole and only talent consists of having a trust fund

liveadivinelife.bsky.social•90 days ago

More sociopaths trying to get rich.

dylanxdarke.bsky.social•89 days ago

I mean, look at these guys - what is your immediate visceral reaction to these fellows? Would you want to sit down next to a table with these guys at a diner? Or meet them at a bar? One thinks not.

dylanxdarke.bsky.social•89 days ago

They will quickly be at the bottom of the heap. Bros out to disrupt for no purpose other than to put the word disrupt on their bio. AI has good uses, but the objective of this project is to produce trash.

mherringe.bsky.social•90 days ago

Those are all the same guy, right?

jaimeechoi.bsky.social•90 days ago

AI is still working on creating diverse looking faces

candysez.bsky.social•90 days ago

Those four guys look like they were created by AI trained on Donny Jr.

nicolecunningham.bsky.social•90 days ago

gross!

dragonkingdice.bsky.social•88 days ago

A scam smelt miles away try again

zibaldoni.bsky.social•90 days ago

gryphondanu.bsky.social•89 days ago

Garbage books huh? The world is so "low bar" these days.

sarahgioia.bsky.social•90 days ago

Thanks, I hate it!

smith-wise.bsky.social•90 days ago

Why bother to read books they can't be bothered to write?

lizmiles.bsky.social•90 days ago

Ah ‘to disrupt’: a telling aim indeed. Of course they don’t want to enhance, improve, progress publishing. No, they want to halt people’s jobs, remove creative processes, destroy an expectation of quality, & create superficial, vacuous fodder, simply for their own personal gain.

mh8748.bsky.social•90 days ago

But what value are they adding?

Can't i just ask chatgpt to write me an 80,000 word story on whatever topic I want?

And then if I repeat the question, the novel will change

This seems like a sisyphean novel

poguetrooper.bsky.social•90 days ago

It looks like an AI generated a image of “4 tech Bros standing looking unjustifiably pleased with themselves”

joostbaars.bsky.social•90 days ago

Looking at their website: you have to pay them $5000,-, and for that they will publish your book, editing it with AI tools, and give you a 'certificate of copyright protection'. Which to me reads like Orwellian speak for 'we will own your texts'.

liveadivinelife.bsky.social•90 days ago

This sounds just like a vanity press — but uses AI tools to edit your book before print.

joostbaars.bsky.social•90 days ago

Yeah. But unlike vanity presses these people seem to scam writers out of owning their texts. Which is probably an indication that they are using a vanity press to train their AI-models, to then sell that stuff on bigger more important markets.

liveadivinelife.bsky.social•90 days ago

💯 I think you’re right.

andygeology.bsky.social•90 days ago

Private equity investors, want to lose your capital? Boy, do we have an investment for you.

whistlingbatter.bsky.social•90 days ago

James Patterson has already been doing this for 15 years

matthewwilding.bsky.social•90 days ago

Seems like we need some kind of legislation warning consumers if something is written with AI.

wnatch.bsky.social•89 days ago

Why would I buy a book written by AI and not just a generate it myself?

norseofbroad.bsky.social•90 days ago

I'd like to disrupt the bone structure in their face

pimento-mori.bsky.social•90 days ago

as a writer of some little infamy, methinks I shall be writing a vicious parody of The Brothers Dim over here

lesliehalleck.bsky.social•90 days ago

And by "disrupt" they mean ruin.

mikekeating.bsky.social•90 days ago

israel is really the new frontier for pointless, exploitative "tech"

chhopsky.tv•89 days ago

these guys depend on publicity. even "bad" publicity like this

we learnt this all during crypto and early days of AI

it's tempting to dunk, but it's more effective to let them die in obscurity where they belong

plasticastro.bsky.social•90 days ago

I hate how much their product dismisses the human element of an editor. They’re not just making grammar checks, they’re making sure the story is sound and giving structural feedback

lho-arts.bsky.social•88 days ago

That's only if the publishers care about quality and aren't just looking for a quick, buzzy cash-grab.

ladyomygod.bsky.social•88 days ago

Founder Niv is far too arrogant to know the motivations of most authors. Every writer I have known does not care about a legacy or self-branding but rather expressing their creativity and telling a story that means something to them. And, most do want to make a profit, but they understand the odds.

ladyomygod.bsky.social•90 days ago

Let’s hope they have AI do the spell check so it takes them as long as it takes me to write a FB post without errors.

tkedmunds.bsky.social•90 days ago

I don't want to be that guy, but these dudes look like the only thing they read is the back of their Axe Body Spray.

chevo.bsky.social•88 days ago

welshborat.bsky.social•90 days ago

Can’t be any worse than the current trend for celebrity murder mystery pulp.

bohemienne.bsky.social•89 days ago

photo of 4 tech bros who have likely never read a single romance novel between the 4 of them and have probably not read a single book in the past 15 years that wasn't written by tim ferriss tells me all i need to know

gallian7th.bsky.social•90 days ago

If by "disruption" they mean wasting mountains of time, money, and resources to make obtaining accurate information and quality entertainment actively harder for everyone, then... Yeah, they are disruptive.

are-we-fascist-yet.bsky.social•90 days ago

Wouldn't even consider reading the article, let alone the books

tlas-hugged.bsky.social•90 days ago

Techbro shit-show. Does quality even matter anymore?

johnnewhouse.bsky.social•90 days ago

Most predictable photo ever

ryanbonick.com•90 days ago

bit surprised none are cleanshaven

tristanjh.bsky.social•89 days ago

It's Movember.

flambo.bsky.social•90 days ago

They might have all been generated from the same AI model.

thebystander99.bsky.social•90 days ago

Yeah, I think this is definitely a “judge a book publisher by its cover” scenario…

noongoon.bsky.social•83 days ago

It’s weird how artificial intelligence keeps making things dumber.

dankmccoy.bsky.social•89 days ago

Look at that lineup of dudes you would absolutely never want to interact with in any way.

paulthomasuk.bsky.social•89 days ago

What kind of nonsense is this….won’t be stocking any titles from this publisher! Also I hate the word disrupt. Always a bad thing when used in this sort of context.

taaya.bsky.social•90 days ago

It's really time to tax the environmental damage products create. That would stop this BS once and for all.

"Oh, let's destroy the planet by flooding the world with bad books that have been frankensteined from the same books people have already read." 🤦‍♀️

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