Welcome to the Self Publishing School podcast, the show for aspiring authors and writers who want to publish a book that actually builds their business and their life.

Every episode, you'll hear from top authors and everyday people just like you who are doing it at the highest level.

I'm your host, Chandler Bolt, the founder and CEO of Selfpublishing.com, where we've helped

over 7,000 authors write, publish, and launch their book successfully.

Let's get into it.

Today we got some crazy announcements, some big updates and some time sensitive benefits.

We are out of time.

It's the future of publishing, the future of books,

the future of self-publishing.com.

There's a traditional publishing route that's dying.

Two prompts, chat, cheapy T, Yolo, here's a book.

We embrace innovation.

And we've got video content that's being published every single week now is the time. So you may or may not have noticed, but there's been a massive shift in the publishing world over the last couple of decades. There's kind of three options when you publish a book. There's a traditional publishing route that's dying. It's an old model. There's hybrid publishing. There's some people are doing that route. There's a scams, though. It's kind of the Wild Wild West. And then there's self-publishing. I like to say that's entrepreneurial publishing. Here's a problem, though. Most people, when they self-publish, they either never do it because they never get it done or they don't know how to do it correctly. And that's why the average self-published book

sells less than 100 copies. So self-publishing has become the preferred option for most authors,

but only if they do it the right way. And that's where we bridge the gap at self-publishing.com.

Now, the common denominator in all of this is you. And that's you are responsible for marketing this book,

no matter which path you take. So it doesn't matter if you traditionally publish, if you

hybrid publish, or if you self-publish, you are responsible for the marketing. There's three big

problems that I'm seeing with people when it comes to adopting AI with their book. The first

is AI slop. Two prompts, chat cheapy T, yolo, here's a book. Those suck. It's not a good path.

The second path is just trying to automate everything. So, I mean, it's like, oh, AI can literally

do every step of the process. You over automate again, you end up with a

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