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A.I. has improved a lot. I’m still skeptical it’s useful for writing and editing

March 24, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

I spent a fair chunk of my weekend playing around with various A.I. tools, and, for the first time ever, I came away genuinely impressed by some of its outputs. I’m as surprised as you are. If your first impression of ChatGPT calcified a year or two ago as you watched it spew out weird […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: A.I., ChatGPT, Google

Louise Erdrich wins the Pulitzer for fiction (This week in books)

June 18, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! The 2021 Pulitzer Prizes were announced, and Louise Erdrich won the prestigious prize for fiction! Here are the book-related winners: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Fiction) Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain (History) The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, BookEnds, Facebook, Google, Louise Erdrich, Matt Holmes, Meghan Garber, Pulitzer Prize, Tim Marcin

This week in books 4/30/17

April 30, 2017 by Nathan Bransford

I’ve been traveling. Follow me on Instagram! @nathanbransford This week! In books! Just a few days delayed. This is probably worth a full post unto itself, but there have been some very good articles on what has happened to Google Books, the incredibly ambitious effort to digitize all of the world’s physical books. It’s a tale […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Google, literary agents, This Week in Books

Imagining a Post-Amazon World

May 21, 2013 by Nathan Bransford

A few weeks back I wondered why publishers haven’t taken the initiative to begin selling e-books in a more-agressive way, and especially why they don’t empower authors to sell their own e-books. Reader Steve Davidson took that a step further and wonders why an author with a platform needs a publisher or distributor at all: […]

Filed Under: Business of Publishing Tagged With: Amazon, E-books, Future of Publishing, Google

The Last Few Weeks in Books 5/20/13

May 20, 2013 by Nathan Bransford

Brooklyn Heights. Photo by me. I’m on Instagram here. Lots and lots of links stored up from the past few weeks, let’s get to them! It hasn’t been long since the courts rejected a settlement between the Authors Guild and Google over Google’s bookscanning project, which many people characterized as far too generous to Google. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Google, literary agents, Self-publishing, This Week in Books

This Week in Books 7/8/11

July 8, 2011 by Nathan Bransford

This week! The books! Another relatively quiet week in books this week, so just a few quality links for you. Also, on Monday and Tuesday I shall be away from the blog and will be posting blog posts of yore, which will possibly incorporate my new kick of including art from yore. First up, the […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Google, literary agents, Social Media, This Week in Books

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