This sounds scary, but Brooke shares good insight tobrering this into perspective with a small does of hope too.

In our post-pandemic/post-AI world, however, book publishing (a 32.5% increase over 2024, a disturbing level of growth fueled by AI, undoubtedly); it’s also about competition for eyeballs and readers’ attention from podcasts, online courses, Substacks, and of course ChatGPT and Claude.

-Brooke Warner