Editrix, a new AI-powered editorial platform founded by Meru Gokhale, aims to provide automated developmental editing, structural editing, and inline editing capabilities for fiction and nonfiction manuscripts.
Otis Chandler, cofounder and former CEO of Goodreads, is among those who have launched Smashing, a new reading app that will provide a daily feed of news, podcasts, and social media posts based on users’ interests.
With the debut of Webtoon on the U.S. stock market dominating comics world headlines last month, South Korea’s other webcomic and webnovel giant, Kakao Entertainment, and its Tapas platform are eyeing ambitions of their own.
The embeddable book widget service has partnered with bookseller Books-A-Million in the U.S. and publisher HarperCollins worldwide, expanding its reach and scope.
Fable.co, the mobile platform for online book clubs launched in 2021, has added a personalized book discovery and discussion feed called Fable For You. The company now has 400,000 users and 14,000 book clubs.
The former Penguin Random House CEO joined a panel hosted by the Frankfurt Book Fair discussing artificial intelligence, asserting that AI could help combat piracy and assist with contracts, scouting, marketing, translations, and audiobook production.
The company behind GPT-3 and ChatGPT has released its latest upgrade of the generative AI tool as concerns over AI text generation proliferate in the book world.
DBW's final day looked at a recent study of publishing industry startups and found that innovation takes all forms, from wildly successful ideas that took time to take off, like Audible, to cutting edge innovations, like blockchain book retailing.
According to multiple presenters at the Digital Book World conference, ChatGPT has potential to remake the way people write and streamline production and editing, while AI voice replication promises affordable audiobook adaptations.
Tertulia, a free book discovery app, includes a purchasing and shipping option, and has a catalog of about 15 million titles.
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