New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone

[Brigid Barry]

“Regardless of how they present their platform they ARE a vanity publisher,” wrote Deidre J Owen, co-founder of “independent micropublisher” Mannison Press, in a post on X.

 

[frimble3]

I gather that all 'they' want is to publish 'something', why not do it with the method people have talked about, but never tried?
Gather as many monkeys as you can afford, and as many typewriters, and let 'em have at it? Eventually...
And you could literally pay them peanuts. With maybe a banana for the really hard workers.

 

[Brigid Barry]

I gather that all 'they' want is to publish 'something', why not do it with the method people have talked about, but never tried?
Gather as many monkeys as you can afford, and as many typewriters, and let 'em have at it? Eventually...
And you could literally pay them peanuts. With maybe a banana for the really hard workers.

Someone just posted a thread about this in the last couple of weeks.

 

[frimble3]

Someone just posted a thread about this in the last couple of weeks.

I did not know about it, I have not read it! Unlike others, I AM NO PLAGIARIST!
(I can think stupid thoughts all on my own.)