I don’t think this is true. AI 2027 got much more attention than basically anything on the NYT bestseller list, and seems reasonably-well described as a “free eBook/blog post”.
(IMO I think publishing a book is reasonable, but I think trying to write an online compendium to AI risk would have been a better move and been more successful. Nobody actually reads books, and books perform very badly in the modern social-media dominated media landscape)
One idea I came up with today, is that the ideal book would also have an online website where you can read it all, conditional on you having bought a book. Essentially a paywall that is also a measurable book sale. And otherwise you can just get highlighted extracts from each chapter.
I don’t think this is true. AI 2027 got much more attention than basically anything on the NYT bestseller list, and seems reasonably-well described as a “free eBook/blog post”.
(IMO I think publishing a book is reasonable, but I think trying to write an online compendium to AI risk would have been a better move and been more successful. Nobody actually reads books, and books perform very badly in the modern social-media dominated media landscape)
One idea I came up with today, is that the ideal book would also have an online website where you can read it all, conditional on you having bought a book. Essentially a paywall that is also a measurable book sale. And otherwise you can just get highlighted extracts from each chapter.