This FAQ will cover the most common questions about our software access to it. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask in the private Facebook community or to message our support team.
What is Publishing.ai?
We built Publishing.ai to help self-publishers create high-quality content without investing thousands of dollars or waiting months to create a book. Our AI-assisted tool helps you shortcut the process of creating a book without hiring freelancers and writers, allowing you to focus on making quality books faster.
Publishing.ai strives to provide the best service for our students and future publishers.
I tried to use the app on my phone, and nothing works!
Our user interface is currently only designed for desktop use. A device needs a minimum screen width of 1024 pixels. Practically speaking, this means desktops, laptops, some tablets, and a handful of phones. However, handheld devices don't provide a good experience when interacting with software. At this release stage, the app won't work on smaller devices. We look forward to building these options for you in the future.
How much time and money am I saving with the software?
Customer Research Report: If you do it yourself, it’s just countless hours of online research, scouring the internet for everything possible about your customer. It's hard to price on time, but we know time is money... and you are saving a lot!
Book Outline: If you outsource to Publishing Services, the turnaround time is 10 business days, costing $397.
Manuscript Writing: Traditional ghostwriting will cost you upwards of $1000 and about 3 months of your time managing their writing process. This is on top of your book outline costs if you outsource.
Add all that up, and you are saving big!
What does beta mean when I see it in the software?
Beta means you get to try new features that we release in the software as one of the early users of that feature. Pro and Platinum subscribers get exclusive access to new features we roll out to smaller groups for testing before we release them to all members. It's an amazing chance to benefit from our exciting new tools while providing us with valuable feedback to make the new features better before we release them to the masses.
What is a Credit?
A credit allows you to generate one full manuscript within a project in Publishing.ai. Credits are only used during manuscript generation, and you'll be prompted at the writing sample stage to confirm if you're ready to use your credit.
What can the software do?
Ah, great question!
Topic Generator: Get suggestions for book topic ideas (these still need to be verified that they pass Proof Of Concept or POC as we call it for short)
Generate a Customer Research Report: Get all the info you need to understand your buyer so that you can write the book for them! Our software will also scrape the Amazon reviews of other books when you enter their 10-digit ASIN/ISBN to write a curated report that tells you what your potential buyers love about other books in your topic and what they wish was included so you can come out on top!
Create a Book Outline: People often say that the book outline is the most valuable piece in creating a quality book! Construct the perfect outline easily by answering the questions in our input fields, and our model will write your outline for you. Then, you can use our editor to refine and make it your own or add additional content.
Create a Writing Sample: Get a sample of your manuscript up to 1,500 words and generate multiples with different writing styles until you find the perfect author voice for your full book.
Write a Manuscript: With your unique inputs through all the stages leading up to the manuscript stage; our model will create an amazing manuscript that is unique to your book creation process and follows your outline. You will also get a full references list at the end of your manuscript.
Editing is important in the book creation, so our editing tools will allow you to make your first draft a ready-for-print final.
Write a Book Description: Create the perfect book description that can be used on your Amazon sales page or the back of your book. Our descriptions will include a hook, ensure you list the benefits of your book to the potential buyer, and have a clear call to action.
So, what does access look like?
We now have three amazing tiers of access:
Lite Tier
It's free for all members of AIA!
✨Features Include
Everything users were paying $29/month for before. That saves $348/year compared to our previous plan model!
Book Ideas Generator
Customer Research Tool
Book Outline Generator
Writing Sample
Book Description
Sales Analytics
The free plan has a generation limit of 30 per month, excluding manuscripts.
Manuscript credits are not included in the free lite tier. They can be bought a-la-carte for $995/ credit and include a generation that will not deduct from your credit limit on the lite tier.
Pro Tier
$1,495 for a 6-month subscription
✨Features Include
Every feature in the Lite plan
Two Manuscript credits, recharges every 6 months
That’s a 25% savings per a-la-carte manuscript, or $500 off 2!First access to upcoming new features designed to streamline even the most challenging parts of the publishing process
Unlimited Topic Ideas, Customer Research, Outline, Writing Sample generations, Book descriptions, and Sales Analytics
Platinum Plan
The Platinum plan is the ultimate option for existing Publishing Accelerator (PA) students who want to take their publishing to the next level. This is the highest tier of subscription we provide and this gives you access to everything the software offers. If you are looking to truly supercharge your publishing business and process, this is for you.
Included Manuscript Credits:
Unlimited Manuscript Credits.
Eligibility and Pricing:
$3995 exclusively for PA students with a 50% off coupon applied.
Non-PA students need to purchase the Publishing Accelerator program and go through sales to access this plan.
Regular price for non-PA students is $7995.
Features:
ALL Pro Plan Features: Enjoy everything the Pro plan offers, including book topic ideas, customer research, unlimited generations, and more.
Unlimited Generations and Manuscript Credits: Take your creativity to the next level with endless content creation.
Early Access to New Features: Be the first to try out exciting new tools and features before they are made available to other users.
Note: Only PA students can self-serve and directly access the Platinum subscription. If you are not a PA student, you must contact sales to enroll in the Publishing Accelerator program before subscribing to Platinum.
No matter which plan you choose, Publishing AI provides a powerful suite of tools to support your success as a publisher. Whether you're just getting started with the Lite plan, diving deeper with the Pro plan, or maximizing your potential with the Platinum plan, you're equipped to turn your publishing dreams into reality.
When I bought AIA, you promised me 6 months of unlimited access. What Happens Now?
You get everything you were promised! If you purchased AIA and were promised 6 months of free access with unlimited use of core features, you will still be granted 6 months of free software access with unlimited use of core features*. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our support team, who is happy to help you.
*Core Features include:
Topic Ideas
Customer Research
Outlines
Writing Samples
Book descriptions
When does access start?
Access to the lite tier starts the day you are sent an email notifying you that you have been granted access after you join AIA. Pro or Platinum tier access will be provided immediately after the upgrade purchase.
Online uptime is over 99.5%. While there will always be occasional service outages, the software tools will be available for you for nearly the entire period of your access, and we always strive to minimize maintenance periods or other downtime.
Can I share my credits?
Currently, credits cannot be shared between accounts. If you and a partner or family member in the same household collaborate on a project, you may use a single account under one user email. However, sharing accounts or credits is prohibited under our Terms of Service. For further details, please review our Terms of Service.
What Credit cards do you accept?
We accept Amex, Mastercard, Visa, and Discover credit cards. All charges are in USD. If your credit card is with a provider outside of the USA, you will be charged your bank's live conversion rate.
What benefits do PA students get?
PA students can unlock special offers within the software.
Can I write a full book with Publishing.ai?
Yes! Our software is designed to generate high-quality customer research, book outlines, and 30,000-word non-fiction manuscripts. Remember, your AI-assisted book generation is different from working with a ghostwriter. You still need to cross your t’s and dot your i’s like you would with any other book. (This means verifying facts, editing your book, doing a thorough read-through, checking for plagiarism, etc.) The overall outcome of your book will be unique to you through the input fields and the human effort and care you put into reading and revising your manuscript. Our tools are here to assist you in making great content.
Is there training on how to use the software?
The onboarding video will show you a walkthrough of how to use the software.
Tooltip hints throughout the software help guide you (?). Video tutorials and explanations about key information are also provided in-app. Go to Guides in the Help Center for more detailed instructions on using each step of the software.
Does the software scan for data or things that must be cited in my book?
AI identifies relevant citations and draws facts from that source to include in your manuscript. It will provide you with the sources at the end of your manuscript. You can easily add more references and citations during editing if you want to add direct quotes or in-text citations. Before your manuscript credit is cashed in, our software will run a second reference scan to check for any added content within the outline after editing it and include relevant sources at the end of your manuscript. Scanning your manuscript for any content you may want to add as an in-text citation is important.
Where does our AI pull information from? Where is the information from your AI-based?
Our AI draws information from websites, forums, social media platforms, and publicly available datasets such as Common Crawl, Wikipedia, and BooksCorpus. We don’t use any user input to improve the AI quality.
Is it always accurate? Will it always put out accurate info?
Just like a human being, no AI will always be accurate. There is an adage in computing and life - “garbage in, garbage out”. The better the material provided during the Customer Research and Outline stages, the better and more accurate the resulting manuscript will be when the AI writes it. And just as with a hired ghostwriter, please read your book completely! Even the best author, human or AI, needs your oversight.
Can I use it for just one book at a time?
You can have many book projects at the same time. We encourage it!
You may create several projects for completely different topics before deciding which one to use with your manuscript credits.
Can I copyright my AI-generated manuscript from Publishing.ai?
The laws of many countries are not amenable to non-human copyright.
In the United States, for example, the Copyright Office currently declares that it will “register an original work of authorship, provided that the work was:
created by a human being
or
maintains a standard of 'Sufficient Human Authorship'.
It is important to look at the regulations within the country where you wish to apply for copyright. As these laws are evolving rapidly with the development of AI, understand that copyright laws today may not be the same tomorrow. The industry wants to protect itself from AI books that are generated without care for quality, so as long as you are doing your due diligence of caring for your final manuscript quality in the same way as if you wrote it yourself by reviewing, editing, and perfecting you should be supported by your copyright office.
What Sufficient Human Authorship Looks Like
If you are contributing to the development of your book project by thoroughly reviewing and adjusting the customer research outline and adding your human voice and input into the manuscript during the editing process to ensure a quality experience for your readers, you can apply and likely obtain copyright within the US, Canada, and the UK and other major regions a publisher may operate out of.
What Sufficient Human Authorship Does Not Look Like
If you take a manuscript from the software without any input and review in the customer research and outline stage, and you do not personally read, edit, or hire a content editor to do so if you wish to not personally human edit and review after generating, it is likely that the copyright office will not accept your manuscript for copyright certification at this time.
Will my AI generations or edited content be used to train your model?
No, we don’t use user input to improve the AI quality.