Authors Equity CEO Madeline McIntosh: Rebuilding publishing from a blank page | Rapid Response

Madeline McIntosh spent decades navigating publishing’s biggest upheavals. Now she’s betting that the whole model needs to be rebuilt from scratch. She joins Rapid Response to explain why she walked away from one of the most powerful seats in publishing to co-found Authors Equity, and what a small start-up can do that a global giant simply can’t. McIntosh also takes on AI’s limits as a creative force, explains why BookTok is rewriting the rules of the marketplace, and makes the case that in an age of scale, hyper-focus might be the most powerful competitive advantage of all.