Perplexity Agent AuthorBot Autonomously Completes Technical Book Writing and Publishes on Kindle
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas relayed the case of user Jeff Grimes, stating that the agent AuthorBot he created can help users write, publish, and sell books on Kindle. According to the user's description, AuthorBot independently retrieved 92 papers from 1956 to 2026, wrote an 8-chapter monograph containing 64 equations and 13 figures, completed EPUB3 formatting and a 226-page print edition, and submitted it to KDP, notifying him after Amazon accepted it.
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This account demonstrates the complete workflow of a Perplexity agent from retrieving papers to submitting for Kindle publication, and can be used to observe the degree of autonomy of agents in long-chain tasks.
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View original postI'm a published author now, thanks to my Perplexity teammate. I created a teammate called AuthorBot whose role is to write technical books. I asked it to publish a Very Short Introduction (in the style of Oxford University Press) to fault-tolerant quantum computing on Kindle. AuthorBot did everything itself: It pulled 92 papers from 1956 to 2026 as research, wrote an 8-chapter monograph with 64 equations and 13 figures, formatted the EPUB3 and 226-page print edition, submitted the book to KDP, and notified me when it had been accepted by Amazon.
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I'm a published author now, thanks to my Perplexity teammate. I created a teammate called AuthorBot whose role is to write technical books. I asked it to publish a Very Short Introduction (in the style of Oxford University Press) to fault-tolerant quantum computing on Kindle. AuthorBot did everything itself: It pulled 92 papers from 1956 to 2026 as research, wrote an 8-chapter monograph with 64 equations and 13 figures, formatted the EPUB3 and 226-page print edition, submitted the book to KDP, and notified me when it had been accepted by Amazon.
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