I want to talk to ChatGPT about books—granularly reference, make outlines, debate core points, expand on topics, etc.

I would easily pay $20 per book to do this. Why can't OpenAI facilitate that txn, and why wouldn't authors be open to it?

The alternative (pirating) feels like limewire before iTunes came around.

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Hasn’t it read all of goodreads and every printed book pre 2022?

Yeah, it would be a really neat mini app idea for agents trained specifically

Maybe? My guess would be it doesn't have enough context to cite specific lines of any book. Also ofc there are new books being written and now publishers are aware of the game being played.