Even last year, I didn't consider artificial intelligence (AI) a threat to a travel journalist. Artificial intelligence applications seemed clumsy, and open-source language models primarily silly.
I have made an effort to research and follow the development. Although I see a lot of opportunities, I also see threats that the price of billable work will collapse either directly when artificial intelligence replaces a human as a writer or when artificial intelligence makes it possible for people who previously could not write publishable articles.
Have you noticed that the number of articles produced directly with artificial intelligence has increased? Or that there has been a significant decrease in writing fees?
An example of an artificial intelligence (AI) application that already creates publishable articles for some uses is, for instance, Surfer. What worries me the most is the pace of development. When the content it writes is already so good, how good will it be next year?
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I'd love to learn from any folks here who are also authors about best practices / efforts for book sales. Have a book releasing soon and any insights appreciated for this first-time author.
Where did you see your best ROI? What were the mktg / promo / publicity efforts that worked or failed? Thank you for any and all advice!
I'm guessing you are talking about self-publishing. My partner and I were commissioned by a publisher to write a guidebook to the D-Day Landing sites/memorials/etc for this year's 80th anniversary, so most of the publicity was done by their marketing dept. But one thing that helped was arranging talks at local bookshops. Many bookshops have a programme of promo talks. If they are already stocking your book or are prepared to do so, you can ask them what kind of deal they might offer. Or you can do your own. Book a space, send out invitations, take plenty of copies and a POS app like Sumup.
Thanks Alastair! My book is through a publisher and they are doing some marketing and PR but also wanted to see what I could do as well for better sales. Am definitely contacting local bookshops for promo talks. Thank you :)
Yep. I did. happy to help if I can, but I just learned by doing and should have done/be doing more.
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Did you have any luck with this?
Some. Connected with one other member offline to hear more about their experience. Happy to hear your thoughts too.