Fred Zimmerman

Despite a surge in AI discourse, only 10 articles provide in-depth technical analysis, leaving a critical gap in understanding how AI capabilities influence publishing decisions.

Authorial style isn't just about word choice; it's deeply embedded in the multi-scale dynamics of novelty within a text, creating a measurable "fingerprint" that can identify authors with surprising accuracy.

Modern books are 10% more novel than older books, but that's not the whole story: narrative complexity, as measured by "trajectory circuitousness," has nearly doubled.

LLM-powered synthetic reader panels can replace human focus groups for book ideation, identifying structural content issues and enriching high-quality concepts by almost 5x.