When I wrote ‘Summarize This‘, I think expressing frustration at AI and copyright as well as AI being used to undermine the work of people would be more tangible on the Internet.

It wasn’t.

It shouldn’t be surprising, really. There aren’t as many authors out there who are concerned about it – it would seem that it’s only a non-fictional book issue. I don’t know if anyone really wants to get a book summary of Lord of the Rings, as an example.

Yet I thought about it and some days ago thought, “The best way to beat that is to come out with your own book summary. An ‘AUTHORized’ version.”

Amazon’s not going to stop anything once they’re making money. Bezos has to… well, I’m not sure what he has to do, but we can be certain he’ll need money to do that. What you can do is summarize the book yourself, toss in some tidbits that hint at the actual book and needing to read it for some stuff, and then if you’re feeling particularly grouchy, you can undercut the AI book summary prices.

In fact, it might be a healthy way to introduce a book to people.

In fact, why aren’t people doing it already?