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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by skeledrew on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:12AM (#50425126)
> "Books are selling."

That said it all, and literally the only thing that matters, because sales means demand, which means people find the works valuable.

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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by beej71 on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:47AM (#50426383)
Buyers think they'll find the work valuable. We've definitely seen publicized examples of buyer's remorse when an LLM-authored book is cracked open.

If someone's just in it for the money, why wouldn't they slop it up?

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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by skeledrew on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:10AM (#50426721)
If people are remorseful enough then there'd be enough feedback in reviews that others know to beware. And that would lead to author names associated with those works being outed and likely boycotted or something. This particular author has ~11 pen names, so assuming a roughly equal spread across her 370+ books, there should be a crop of bad reviews for books associated with a name that has maybe 25 - 40 other books associated with it. There should be a pattern for people to find and then say "Someone has been putting out slop under these names; avoid like the plague", which should then trigger a considerable gap in sales for that author.
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