[keiferski]

I don't like the equivalency of "books" with the sort of low-effort drivel that LLMs will replace. In reality, an LLM isn't going to replace an author that is able to communicate a particularly unique viewpoint or experience.

I do think, however, that book sales are going to continue becoming more dependent on author-as-person style marketing. Some of the most lucrative books in recent years were functionally add-on products to whatever the author's main "business" is, and the author themselves went on dozens of podcasts, etc. to tell their story. The days of being an unknown mass-market writer that mails a manuscript to a publisher then disappears, is probably over.