Getting in front of the AI Boom in Publishing
Years and years ago, I learned how to make ebooks. Ebooks function like websites, comprising of code. I had enough HTML knowledge to understand most stuff, and take a guess at what the rest was doing (albeit without sometimes really knowing why it was doing what it was doing). My former boss, who ran a small hybrid publisher, encouraged me to pursue it as a sideline, but I could see the way the technology was evolving. Software like InDesign allowed you to export files into ebook formats. They weren’t perfect incarnations, but if you knew enough you could go in and perform the fine tuning. I also knew it was…