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August 8, 2025 Printing

Books, AI & You: Part 6: The Listing

For many authors, creating an online listing for people to buy your book might be the hardest part of selling a book. Just figuring out what sites to use is hard enough, let alone navigating all the different menu options, figuring out the ISBN, and more. Putting up listings is a long and often convoluted process, one that AI sadly can’t do for you, but can at least help you with. By asking ChatGPT “How do I list my book for sale online?“, it will give you detailed instructions on the different websites that you can list your book on,

August 6, 2025 Printing

Books, AI & You: Part 5: The Cover

Here is where the fun really begins, and you can really play around with the visual side of AI. For many authors, the cover is the hardest part of making a book. People spend hundreds, even thousands of hours just to get good at designing book covers. And taking a book that you’ve always described with words, and being tasked to put visuals to it, is no small feat. Before AI, you either had to design the cover yourself, which would often turn out poorly given the lack of designing experience or a budget for a professional photo shoot. Or

August 4, 2025 Printing

Books, AI & You: Part 4: Formatting & Revising

After writing your book, most authors will take the time to read over it and revise it. This involves double checking for typos, making sure everything in the story flows well and makes sense, making sure sentences aren’t worded in a clunky manner, and formatting them in a way that will look pretty for print. It might seem daunting to make all these edits, but don’t worry. Don’t let the last post’s scare put you down, this is another area where AI can shine. Many recent text editors have an AI tool built into the program that will allow you

July 28, 2025 Zip Print Articles

Books, AI, & You: Part 1: The Right Time

If you are reading this, you likely have interest in writing and sharing your own books. Or you may be a book publisher, where you print & distribute other people’s books. Or you may just have a passing interest in books. No matter the case, there is one crucial thing you need to know about, as it’s sweeping the book market: AI, also known as artificial intelligence. Used in everything from photographs, to social media, to even advertising, it’s no secret that AI is a booming industry. The majority of people are using AI in their daily lives. A few

November 10, 2024 Book Marketing / Book Printing / Book Publishing

AI and the Creation of a Book Interior and Cover

Writing The Book Using AI? No one would suggest that Artificial Intelligence be used to write a complete book. The writing performed by AI tends to be mechanical in composition. It also seems to be a bit choppy in regards to flow, with the text jumping from thought to thought. The better uses of AI in the writing process are in the areas of research and the setup of the outline for a story or nonfiction book. There are usually many areas in a book that require research of a concept, technology, history and so on.