AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is dropping for human-written titles too, in seven of eight genres. The findings could give copyright plaintiffs the market-harm data their cases against AI companies have been missing.
  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    24 days ago

    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.clubEnglish
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      24 days 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.