The Frankfurt Book Fair has begun, with—as everywhere—continuing conversations around generative AI in the publishing industry. At the opening press conference, outgoing director of Frankfurter Buchmesse Juergen Boos highlighted publishers’ conflicting feelings about AI: adoption for workflows versus rejection due to copyright issues. “This tension is key to the technical program of the book fair this year,” he said. “How does the industry use AI for better publishing? How does it, on the other hand, protect its works?” Chair of the German publishers association Sebastian Guggolz largely took the latter view, calling AI “a dual raid—a raid of our books […]
