5 papers
Copyright Is the Headline; Capability Is the Blind Spot: AI Technology in the Book-Publishing Trade Press, November 2025--August 2026
Fred Zimmerman
This rapid evidence review examines 89 articles about artificial intelligence (AI) and book publishing published from November 1, 2025 through August 1, 2026. The purposive corpus…
Narrative Fingerprints: Multi-Scale Author Identification via Novelty Curve Dynamics
Fred Zimmerman, Hilmar AI
We test whether authors have characteristic "fingerprints" in the information-theoretic novelty curves of their published works. Working with two corpora -- Books3 (52,796 books, 7…
Semantic Novelty Trajectories in 80,000 Books: A Cross-Corpus Embedding Analysis
Fred Zimmerman
I apply Schmidhuber's compression progress theory of interestingness at corpus scale, analyzing semantic novelty trajectories in more than 80,000 books spanning two centuries of En…
Synthetic Reader Panels: Tournament-Based Ideation with LLM Personas for Autonomous Publishing
Fred Zimmerman
We present a system for autonomous book ideation that replaces human focus groups with synthetic reader panels -- diverse collections of LLM-instantiated reader personas that evalu…
AI-Driven Development of a Publishing Imprint: Xynapse Traces
Fred Zimmerman
Xynapse Traces is an experimental publishing imprint created via a fusion of human and algorithmic methods using a configuration-driven architecture and a multi-model AI integratio…