Amazon Limits Authors to 3 Books a Day to Combat AI-Generated Material

Re:Amazon Limits Authors to 3 Books a Day to Combat AI-Gener... by makeitdouble on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @10:15PM (#37579673)

The notion of "book" is way fuzzier that it was in the olden days. There's nothing stopping an author from releasing one or two thousand words every as a single book, inside a larger story (basically having a book for what could have been single chapters ?)

Same way illustrators could publish their roughs and croquis as books, etc.

As those can be set with a 0$ price, and virtually no inventory issue, it feels like a practice that doesn't penalize either amazon, nor the author, nor the readers.

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Re:Amazon Limits Authors to 3 Books a Day to Combat AI-Gener... by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:42PM (#37580140)

> There’s nothing stopping an author from releasing one or two thousand words every as a single book, inside a larger story (basically having a book for what could have been single chapters ?)

Amazon has a separate service within KDP for exactly that kind of serialization, [0] so while its true that KDP handles a wider range of books than just the novel-size works people seem to be thinking about, that particular example is probably an explicitly not-prioritized use case for regular “book” publishing on KDP.

[0] Kindle Vella: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GR2L4AHPMQ44HNQ7

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