Dear Head of Mine

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Don’t Automate Yourself Out of a Job, or Book Publishing in the Age of AI

Publishing Economics 301: Artificial Intelligence

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Sean deLone
Apr 12, 2026
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Artificial intelligence1 has joined the unholy trinity of polite small talk in book publishing, right behind the weather and “how many days are you in the office?”. It’s unavoidable even if it’s (largely) an uninteresting subject—haven’t all talking points been exhausted? For the first, and hopefully last, time let us wade into the muddy waters of AI and…

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