AI could be useful for audiobooks, too, as it will allow the company to make audiobooks for smaller markets where it couldn’t before justify the expensive. Book translations will also expand, opening up more revenue opportunities.
Further down the road, HarperCollins foresees how the technology could help turn books into film. “You can imagine taking a manuscript, pouring it in, and having a movie script or television script come out, and then using [OpenAI’s] Sora to storyboard,” Murray said. “In terms of … maybe speed to market or getting concepts — clear concepts — to the professionals in film and television … that’s easier to do now.”