Audible is using machine learning to let romance novel fans ‘skip to the good part’

My husband likes to tell a story from his college years: he was working in data entry, next to a woman with a copy of Anne Rice’s erotic novel The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty sitting on her desk. When a supervisor walked by and noticed it, she snapped it up, saying, “This is a romance novel? Hey, let’s look for one of the good parts!” Then she started flipping through the pages. Finding page after page of S&M scenarios and graphic sexual activity, she quickly put the