At last week’s Sharjah Publishers Conference, Y.S. Chi warned that publishers need to build richer data infrastructures or face extinction. “No publisher will survive five years from today if they don’t have data,” he said last week at the 15th Sharjah Publishers Conference. “I don’t care how well you edit and publish books. If you don’t have data, you will make wrong decisions.” At the top of his agenda was addressing perhaps the most urgent threat to publishing: artificial intelligence. “You can’t do AI unless you have data,” Chi explained.
Source: Publishing’s Survival Depends on Data, Says Elsevier Chairman