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Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI


Publisher Spines will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books edited and distributed with the help of artificial intelligence

“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. The company is seemingly “just trying to speed up” self-publishing “in a way that won’t work well, and of course, they don’t want to call it that”, said Marco Rinaldi, co-host of Page One – The Writer’s Podcast, in a post on Bluesky. skip past newsletter promotion Discover new books and learn more about your favourite authors with our expert reviews, interviews and news stories.

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