An algorithm that predicts bestselling books has awarded a perfect score to The Circle by Dave Eggers, a book that just so happens to be a dystopian satire of life in Silicon Valley. Hmm. Said ...

Agents have to read hundreds of manuscripts before a book is selected to be published. This longstanding tradition might be totally disrupted due to new technology from a German company that uses ...

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To the horror of readers everywhere, computer scientists have developed an algorithm they say can predict the commercial viability of a book, with an 84 percent success rate, based solely on the style ...

The way that books are selected for publication has remained basically the same for years: editors read over a manuscript and decide if they think it has potential and is a good fit. But that could be ...

WHEN machine learning algorithms that replace newspaper reporters became fodder for a recent episode of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, it was clear that the technology had gone mainstream. But as ...