Are AI Book Clubs Next?

 

 

Nearly every author that I speak with would love to get their book in front of book clubs. The problem is that book clubs either cost a lot of money to get in front of or it takes many, many hours to find and reach them.

But what if there was a way to bring a book club experience to every reader?

Imagine buying a book and enjoying it. Now you want to discuss it with others but you don’t belong to a book club or you don’t know of one that is reading that same book.

Some readers will search online for community boards or book reviews to see what others said about a book, but that is not a conversation or a dialogue of give and take.

What if you could attend a zoom call with a dozen other beings to discuss the book you just read? You would likely jump at the opportunity to participate.

One day soon we will have video chat bots discussing a book — and readers will embrace them. The book club experience will be brought to the reader, rather than a book club being brought to a book. Both are needed.

What would be cool is if there was a web site or an app that matches readers of the same book with each other to discuss it. Like a meetup.com — only free.

Maybe local bookstores and amazon can get the ball rolling by handing out QR codes to every book consumer that connects them to readers of each purchased book.

We don’t need more text chat groups. We need people talking live to each other and not at one another, in the same room, and if not in person, then on a zoom.

Are we ready for the AI Book Club? That is better than nothing, but what we need are real people interacting in a human way to discuss the books that touch and shape us.

 

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About Brian Feinblum

This award-winning blog has generated over 11 million page views. With over 5,700+ posts over the past 15 years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2026, 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.”  Copyright 2026.

 

For the past three decades, Brian Feinblum has helped thousands of authors. He formed his own book publicity firm in 2020. Prior to that, for 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and as the director of publicity at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler.

 

His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/whats-needed-to-promote-a-book-successfully) and (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/10-things-my-dog-taught-me-about-marketing-books). He was recently interviewed by the IBPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0BhO9m8jbs

 

He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, three times at BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association, Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, five times at Morgan James Publishing Red Carpet, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. He served as a judge for the 2024 IBPA Book Awards.

 

His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.

 

Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog.

 

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