How Generative AI Search Will Impact Book Discoverability In The Next Decade
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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How will changes to the way people search impact book discoverability? What can authors and publishers do to ensure their books are still found in the new form of generative AI search? While it's still early days for this technology, I share my thoughts in this article, with the hope that we can surf the […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 727 of the podcast, and it is Friday the 8th of December |
| 0:40.1 | 2023 as I record this. Today's show is a solo episode, and I'm talking about how generative |
| 0:48.6 | AI search will impact book discoverability in the next decade. |
| 0:58.8 | So how will changes to the way people search impact book discoverability? |
| 1:06.5 | What can authors and publishers do to ensure their books are found in the new form of generative AI search? |
| 1:16.5 | While it is still early days for this technology, I share my thoughts in this episode with the hope, as ever, that we can surf the wave of change rather than drown in it. |
| 1:24.5 | And this is a topic I have been thinking about for over a year now. I just haven't been able to put it together in a coherent way. |
| 1:29.1 | But now I really feel like the time is necessary to start thinking about this in a big way. So that's coming up in the usual interview section. |
| 1:37.1 | So in publishing and bookmarketing things. On the Wish I'd Known Then podcast this week, |
| 1:43.9 | Helen Schurer talks about launching a series |
| 1:46.5 | and includes arcs, so advanced reader copies, pre-orders, the mindset of launches, |
| 1:53.3 | dealing with a disappointing launch and common mistakes the authors make when launching a series. |
| 1:58.9 | And I know this is a topic that many people, it is really |
| 2:03.3 | important, like doing some kind of launch. And I'm now circling back to this as more important |
| 2:09.0 | because of the Kickstarters. So I kind of gave up on launches for a good number of years because, |
| 2:14.0 | you know, I just put books out there, sent a few emails, put a few ads on and that |
| 2:17.7 | was it. But now with going back to Kickstarter, I am definitely doing a lot more serious things around |
| 2:23.4 | launches. So that is on the Wish I'd Known Then podcast. Also, on the Rebel Author podcast this |
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