Publishing
Large catalogs, a contract with every author, and monthly royalty statements: publishing operations are document-heavy, recurring, and increasingly read by machines, from online bookstores to AI assistants.
Declared scope limit
Editorial decisions belong to people: what to publish, what to change in a text, and whom to credit as author. Agents triage, check, describe, and report; they do not write or sign a work.
Processes fit for AI agents
- Manuscript triage
- Catalog metadata (ONIX) and listing in sales channels
- Royalty statements
- Contract and rights checking (assignment, license, territory, format)
- Accessible format (EPUB) production and checking
- Bookseller and distributor service
Examples of units of work
- Manuscript triaged with an assessment
- Title with metadata published and checked
- Royalty statement issued per author
- Contract checked
Recommended Skill Pack
Metadata, rights, and royalty statements
When the other side has an agent
Online bookstores and AI assistants read the catalog through its metadata, and AI companies ask to license backlists. The publisher's agent answers with accurate metadata and with what each author's contract allows it to license.
Compliance
Compliance standard examples
- Lei 9.610/1998, art. 61 (Brazil's copyright law)
- The publisher must render monthly accounts to the author when the author's pay depends on sales, unless the contract sets a different period.
- Lei 13.146/2015, art. 68 (Brazilian Inclusion Law)
- Public book purchases exclude publishers that do not also offer their titles in accessible formats.
- LGPD, art. 20 (Brazil's data protection law)
- The data subject's right to review a decision made solely by automated processing.
Our read
Metadata has become the storefront: it is how online bookstores and AI assistants find and describe a title. A publisher with a well-described catalog and well-controlled rights comes ready to deal with the agents on the other side, and royalty statements no longer have to be a manual month-end close.