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AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors (the-decoder.com)
submitted 1 day ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I get the impression that most kindle books are sold (well rented) by subscription, i.e. all you can read for a fixed monthly fee, so a subscriber downloading an AI book or other crap doesn't pay any increment to do so. IDK how the revenues are divided up.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago

You don’t get paid until the reader reads x amount of pages of the book.

I sell way way more than through that subscription bs. I removed my book from it. It keeps the author on Amazon.