ChapterPal dev emails authors for hosting rights: half say yes, AI haters rage
burkov · x · 2026-10-28
Burkov shares his experience emailing authors to license their freely-hosted books for ChapterPal, his AI tutor product. Most never reply; about half of repliers agree, and most refusals stem from publisher agreements. He highlights a special category — "AI haters" who stop reading at the word "AI" and fire off angry replies, with a screenshot of one author insisting the content is "purely to help individual humans."
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