The Ledger, every show
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Cole: Writers who do not learn AI orchestration will lose jobs
“Either you get on board with that and you become an orchestrator and editor in chief, or you don't have a job anymore.”
Cole: The next major publisher will be a single AI-trained author
“So one of mine is I think that the next Simon and Schuster or Penguin Random House or whatever is going to be one individual that builds, I mean, one author, but has like a whole team. So the, an author is being treated like a venture backed startup and the te…”
Cole: AI writing platforms will turn everyone into a writer
“And ChatGPT and Claude and all these AI writing platforms are going to do the same exact thing. They are going to make everyone a writer because it's reducing the barrier to entry.”
Cole: Top Lit RPG books generate $250,000 per month
“There are lit RPG books right now doing like a quarter million a month.”
Cole: Lit RPG on Amazon has far more readers than writers
“What's so interesting about this subcategory on Amazon is that there's way more readers than there are creators. There's a lot more people who want to read lit RPGs than there are people writing it.”
Nicolas Cole: The gender split in gaming is now roughly fifty-fifty
“One of the growing trends in gaming is that more and more women are coming into the category. So it used to be, or at least the perception was, like, eighty-twenty, you know... And but now it's like fifty-fifty.”
Nicolas Cole: Kindle Unlimited subscribers read 8 to 12+ books monthly
“Kindle Unlimited subscribers... Read something like eight to 12 plus books a month”
Nicolas Cole: Romance is ten times bigger than any other book genre
“Romance is the biggest literature category. It literally is 10 times bigger than the next biggest category.”
Cole: AI tools will spawn hyper-niche 'Copilots' by solo developers
“Especially with all the new, like, no code tools, AI tools, I think you're going to get a lot of smart, driven individual people just sitting at their laptop being like, I built the Copilot for pet owners of Border Collies.”
Ship 30 for 30 hit seven figures using a simple four-step funnel
“ShipThirty hit seven figures as a business with, like, four steps. It was write on Twitter, drive people to a free educational email course, send them a weekly newsletter sharing, here's more of what we know. Every couple newsletters, join the next cohort of S…”
Cole: Roughly two-thirds of all book readers are female
“The majority of readers are female, like two-thirds of all readers are female, not male”
Cole: Instagram's CEO stated direct messaging is the app's most used feature
“The Instagram CEO went on some podcasts and he was like, yeah, the most used feature on Instagram is not the feed, not the Explorer, but it's DM. Because Gen Z and young people are just sending content to each other in their DMs all day”