Speaker Joe Mull just released Employalty: How to Ignite Commitment and Keep Top Talent in the New Age of Work. It is HOT! The book shot to the top of several Amazon categories, and it’s now in airports and bookstores around the country.

I started with Summarist, and Joe told me the summary was generic, inaccurate and pretty much total bunk. Summarist changed the author and even added a section that Joe never wrote.

My latest book isn’t HOT like Joe’s, but it’s holding its own. I used Booknotes and was shocked by three things I found. First, it admitted that it doesn’t read the books! Second, it totally made up quotes that it said would match my style. And finally I was utterly surprised that to get it to make a summary, I had to put in my own OpenAI key to use it. The use costs almost nothing, but still. Very odd. And annoying.

Hall of Fame Speaker Ross Bernstein has written more than 50 books, but this one is his most famous. It’s the basis for a movie and has sold super well for many years.

I thought maybe Joe’s book summary wasn’t accurate because it’s so new. And my book wouldn’t work well because it isn’t a best seller. But Ross is kinda famous, as is this book. Autographed copies are going for $85!

When I sent Ross the summary from the first two tools, he said, “Yeah, that’s pretty much right.” But then I used BooksAI, which messed up the name of the author and date of publication.