Has Potential
I found CoAuthor from a book publishing influencer's YouTube video recommendation. He said he is the owner or co-owner. CoAuthor is a useful AI tool to draft specific research-based non-fiction books. Its best feature right now is creating and organizing a chapter and section outline to serve as the book's structure. The user can then draft content with that framework or allow CoAuthor to create the content using AI. I found that the AI needs help because it often cites facts that could not be verified. The output required additional help at more costs with a gen AI tool and a book publisher tool to further help with format. CoAuthor offers a book cover creation feature that is worse than images created by ChatGPT. Even the influencer says in videos it is broken. The tool is in early beta though prices are competitive for a complete SaaS platform. Support took days to respond and was almost nonexistent. I could see this evolving to become a value for very specific research-focused non-fiction books. But right now, it's not worth the price.