> But I'm not holding my breath waiting for a book deal from OpenAI.

Was this title eligible for class action status in the recent Anthropic scanning case? I know people who popped up on the list decades after writing obscure or forgotten technical titles. The estimated payout is $3k per title, usually split between publisher and author.

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/09/07/the-anthropic-set...

There was some specific thing about which ID number, not ISBN as I recall, your book had to have to be part of the settlement. Some of my books qualify some don't.