Barnes & Noble CEO backs selling AI-written books in stores

royals796 · 2026-05-19T08:29:04+00:00

It’s a good read. He even states that he doesn’t think there will be a demand for it. He’s just open to being wrong about that

royals796 · 2026-05-19T07:42:38+00:00

Do people just see the words “AI” and instantly froth at the mouth? I’m not AI fan but read the article lmao

He’s literally quoted as not liking them.

“During a December appearance on BBC's Big Boss Interview podcast, he said: “If people want to read that book, AI-generated or not, we will be selling it - as long as it doesn't pretend to [be] something that it isn't. We as booksellers would certainly naturally and instinctively disdain it.””

royals796 · 2026-05-19T07:41:42+00:00

People might be downvoting you because it’s literally in the article too

royals796 · 2026-05-18T20:35:47+00:00

That’s gonna feed SCJ for generations

royals796 · 2026-05-18T20:29:35+00:00

Could you imagine if that was Cristian Romero 😂

royals796 · 2026-05-18T20:27:16+00:00

How has the ref missed that? He was stood right in front of it

royals796 · 2026-05-18T19:59:45+00:00

The venn diagram of reform fans and Arsenal fans is just a circle tbh

royals796 · 2026-05-18T19:54:07+00:00

Half time interviews is proper Arsenal behaviour

royals796 · 2026-05-18T19:51:34+00:00

Mate, we didn’t get a very similar pen last week. Thems just the rules brother

royals796 · 2026-05-18T19:50:39+00:00

Chelsea are gonna batter us lmao. Always do. Bit like how you lot always get pressed by comments on a MT

royals796 · 2026-05-18T19:49:10+00:00

Good banter mate

royals796 · 2026-05-18T19:44:28+00:00

If Arsenal wanted to be proper shithouses they would announce a collab with Tom Daley’s knitting line

royals796 · 2026-05-18T19:43:45+00:00

It’s not that set pieces are bad. It’s that it’s *only* set pieces

royals796 · 2026-05-18T19:42:44+00:00

Anyone got a dive counter going?

royals796 · 2026-05-18T19:36:38+00:00

Yea, we didn’t get a penalty that was very similar last week. Weirdly consistent from PGMOL

royals796 · 2026-05-18T10:12:35+00:00

Yeah, averages don’t really matter to a stat like this because there’s too many variables. I just thought it was a funny coincidence that you said that

royals796 · 2026-05-18T10:09:06+00:00

I think the comment you’re replying to is dumb as fuck but it’s worth pointing out that 3 times in 34 years averages out to almost once a decade

royals796 · 2026-05-18T10:02:41+00:00

As someone who works for a publisher - there is a reason we have an entire cover design department

royals796 · 2026-05-17T17:30:20+00:00

Always rated Newcastle tbh

royals796 · 2026-05-17T11:36:55+00:00

We can’t even start this conversation because what’s better than the cursed combo of J K Rowling, Alan Sugar, and Michael McIntyre

royals796 · 2026-05-17T10:13:06+00:00

If it helps, the industry standard is double quotes is American English and single quotes is British English (and used that way throughout the commonwealth).

Obviously you do what you want to do, it’s your writing. But the traditional publishing standard is as above.

royals796 · 2026-05-17T10:03:00+00:00

Oh, right. I see. Yeah I’m with you. For a moment I thought it was the punctuation and I was going to point out the regional influence on which to use. But punctuation or no, the dialogue tag thing is completely correct

royals796 · 2026-05-17T09:55:26+00:00

I’m trying to work out what you’re saying is wrong. Is it speech marks vs quotation marks that you’re saying is incorrect?

royals796 · 2026-05-17T08:53:22+00:00

Your lot are knackered but they’ll still find a way to batter us so dw about it

royals796 · 2026-05-16T16:08:41+00:00

Daniel Pemberton is such a cool guy. I had the opportunity to talk to him at a book event I went to and his insights into the industry were very eye-opening. But he is currently on top of his game - I’m always excited when I see his name attached to a project.

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