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Episode 165—Private Equity, AI, and the Techification of Publishing

Podcast: Print Run Podcast
Published: Aug 16, 2023
Duration seconds: 2938
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Summary

This week we use two recent stories–the acquisition of Simon & Schuster by the investment firm KKR and the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence usage in various book-related shenanigans–as a way of talking about something big and broad: publishing looking more and more like the tech world each day. Why might the Silicon Valley approach to business not work in publishing, and why do these recent trends alarm us for reasons big and small, aesthetic and substantive? Join us and we’ll talk through it all.