Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead?

Book publishers are experimenting with chatbot editions of new titles, providing 'conversational companions' for readers. This chapter explores the emergence of chatbot editions of books, discussing their usefulness for textbooks, the retrieval augmented generation (RAG) method used to create them, and examples of how they put book content into action. It also showcases the experience of using a chatbot to discuss Frankenstein and mentions other startups using similar techniques for chatbots.