{"id":3314,"date":"2023-04-26T05:01:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T05:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2023-04-26T05:53:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T05:53:37","slug":"aprils-independent-publishing-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2023\/04\/26\/3314\/aprils-independent-publishing-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"April&#8217;s Independent Publishing\u00a0newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the April issue of\u00a0<em>Books+Publishing<\/em>\u2019s monthly\u00a0<em>Independent Publishing\u00a0<\/em>newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>This month I&#8217;m welcoming our new columnist Nigel George to the newsletter. In his first article, published below, Nige turns his eye to what is very much the issue of the day: AI. With his background as a \u2018tech head\u2019, Nige explains what AI is and isn\u2019t, as a lead in to part two\u2014coming next month\u2014which will explore some of the challenges and opportunities the latest natural language AIs present to writers. Nige previously wrote a series of articles back when we were called <em>Australian Self-Publisher<\/em>, drawing on his experience as both an educator and a successful independently published author himself.<\/p>\n<p>Also this month is a look at new report out of the UK, which has found that the average incomes for independent authors rising; it\u2019s particular interesting reading when compared to similar reports on incomes for traditionally published authors.<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading (and writing)!<\/p>\n<p>Brad Jefferies<\/p>\n<p>Editor,\u00a0<em>Independent Publishing<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the April issue of\u00a0Books+Publishing\u2019s monthly\u00a0Independent Publishing\u00a0newsletter. This month I&#8217;m welcoming our new columnist Nigel George to the newsletter. In his first article, published below, Nige turns his eye to what is very much the issue of the day: AI. With his background as a \u2018tech head\u2019, Nige explains what AI is and isn\u2019t,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorial"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3332,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}