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News Podcast: Amazon Cuts KDP Uploads to Two Titles a Week; Study Backs AI Detector Accuracy

On this week's Self-Publishing News podcast, a hoarse ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway covers Amazon's new KDP limit of two titles per week per format — down from ten, and another move aimed at the flood of AI-generated content. He also looks at a study suggesting AI detector Pangram may be more accurate than its critics claim, and at the SCBWI's tightened AI policy, which will ask award entrants to document the human creative process behind their work.
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https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-amazon-cuts-kdp-uploads-to-two-titles-a-week/

#Podcast #AIdetection #AIgeneratedbooks #AmazonKDP #KDPuploadlimit

News Summary: Amazon Cuts KDP Weekly Upload Limit to Two Titles Per Format

Big news for midweek. And it's also very succinct news. Amazon has made another adjustment to the number of permitted titles you can upload through KDP. As Jane Friedman helpfully reminded in the latest edition of The Bottom Line, the first such limiting move came as far back as 2023. The previous limit of ten titles came into effect just last year.
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https://selfpublishingadvice.org/amazon-cuts-kdp-weekly-upload-limit/

#AIgeneratedbooks #Amazon #indieauthors #KDP #RakutenKobo

News Summary: Anthropic Adds Watermarks to Claude’s AI-Generated Text

Watermarks are one of the oldest technologies designed to offer proof of something’s origins. Centuries after their first use on banknotes, stamps, and luxury writing papers, the concept of the watermark has found a valuable place in the digital world, where copying is easy and proof of provenance hard. In the book world, we are most familiar with the watermark concept taking the form of DRM (digital rights management), an additional layer applied to a digital file to prevent copying or manipulation.
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https://selfpublishingadvice.org/anthropic-adds-watermarks/

#AItransparency #AIwatermarking #AIgeneratedbooks #Anthropic #ClaudeAI

News Podcast: Literary Agents Update Ethics Rules; Seven-Figure Deal Shelved Over AI Claims; Study Examines AI Books on Amazon

On this episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Dan Holloway covers a turbulent week for AI and publishing: the Association of American Literary Agents updating their Canon of Ethics to allow closer work with indie authors; a seven-figure publishing deal shelved within hours of an AI allegation; and a peer-reviewed study of 14,419 self-published Amazon titles finding that AI-generated books are commercially viable but outsold by human authors — while the number of titles grows twice as fast as revenue.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-literary-agents-update-ethics-rules/

#Podcast #AIauthorshipcontroversy #AIgeneratedbooks #Amazonselfpublishingstudy #indieauthorearnings

News Summary: What the Viral Study of AI in Self-Published Amazon Books Really Sets Out to Do

This story is related to the first of the week. I promise(ish—breaking news depending) no AI on Saturday, but the issues around Tuhin Chakrabarty's hugely impactful study on AI in self-published novels are so important and widespread I think it is warranted. Especially as this great piece in the New York Times brings out another angle of the story (with thanks to Jane Friedman, whose newsletter gifted the link from behind the NYT paywall).
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https://selfpublishingadvice.org/ai-in-self-published-amazon-books/

#AIdetection #AIgeneratedbooks #Amazon #bookmarketdilution #selfpublishing

News Summary: What the Viral Study of AI in Self-Published Amazon Books Really Sets Out to Do

This story is related to the first of the week. I promise(ish—breaking news depending) no AI on Saturday, but the issues around Tuhin Chakrabarty's hugely impactful study on AI in self-published novels are so important and widespread I think it is warranted. Especially as this great piece in the New York Times brings out another angle of the story (with thanks to Jane Friedman, whose newsletter gifted the link from behind the NYT paywall).
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https://selfpublishingadvice.org/ai-in-self-published-amazon-books/

#AIdetection #AIgeneratedbooks #Amazon #bookmarketdilution #selfpublishing

🚨📚 Oh no! Books are being mass-produced by AI at zero cost! 🤯 The horror! How will we ever survive the literary apocalypse where originality is drowned in a sea of machine-generated drivel? 😱🙄
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20349 #AIgeneratedBooks #LiteratureCrisis #OriginalityThreat #LiteraryApocalypse #TechConcerns #HackerNews #ngated

Grandparents' AI-Generated Books Spark Controversy Over Quality and Privacy Concerns

📰 Original title: Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/grandparents-ai-generated-books-spark-controversy-over-quality-and-privacy-concerns.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world

#artificialintelligence #aigeneratedbooks #privacyconc...

Grandparents' AI-Generated Books Spark Controversy Over Quality and Privacy Concerns

📰 Original title: Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/grandparents-ai-generated-books-spark-controversy-over-quality-and-privacy-concerns.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social

#artificialintelligence #aigeneratedbooks #privacyco...

News Podcast: EU Adds Tariff on Book Imports; The Economist Charts AI Publishing Surge; Pocket Books Returns for Indies

On this episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Dan Holloway covers four stories: a new EU tariff that will affect authors shipping books directly to European readers; The Economist's striking data showing book publishing volumes have doubled since ChatGPT launched in 2022; the Commonwealth Short Story Prize awarding its top prize to the very story accused of AI authorship; and the relaunch of Simon and Schuster's Pocket Books imprint, which is specifically targeting successful indie and hybrid authors for a romance-first print list launching in January 2027.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-eu-adds-tariff-on-book-imports/

#Podcast #AIgeneratedbooks #CommonwealthShortStoryPrize #EUdeminimistariff #hybridpublishing

News Summary: Economist Graph Shows AI-Generated Books Now Match Human Output at 150,000 Titles Monthly

Wherever books are discussed, the past few weeks have seen heated discussion of a graph that appeared in the Economist. It puts flesh on the bones of that "million more books" claim that did the rounds a little earlier. What it shows is the correlation between the steepening of the "books published" figures and the release of ChatGPT 3.5 in November 2022. In classic hockey-stick style, it shows AI-generated books sharply increasing to the point where they are equaling the number of non-AI-generated titles at around 150,000 a month.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/ai-generated-books-now-match-human-output/

#AIdetection #AImusic #AIgeneratedbooks #BarnesandNoble #chatGPT

News Summary: Kobo CEO Reveals 45% of Self-Published Submissions Rejected for Suspected AI Content

I missed this story when it first came out a fortnight ago (I think because the title of the article by Rakuten Kobo's Russ Tamblyn is decidedly oblique, so I just moved on). Fortunately the substantive content has generated several more helpfully titled spinout columns since then, so I'm circling back to the original. A single sentence is at the heart of this piece, and it contains a figure that provides additional context for much of the recent debate over AI-generated content. Tamblyn is speaking in his capacity as president and CEO at Rakuten Kobo.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/suspected-ai-content/

#AIdetection #AIgeneratedbooks #BarnesandNoble #indiepublishing #jamesdaunt

News Summary: Korean Publishers Embrace AI as ‘Reader’; Barnes and Noble Clarifies AI Book Policy

Last week saw a highly controversial statement from Kim Tae-Heon, president of the Korean Publishers Association. In the statement, Kim refers to the emergence of AI as "reader." This has, of course, caused considerable rumblings among those who feel he has not done adequate justice to the rapacious nature of the technology and the companies who control it.
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https://selfpublishingadvice.org/korean-publishers-embrace-ai/

#AIreader #AIgeneratedbooks #BarnesandNoble #booklabeling #jamesdaunt

News Podcast: Audible Retires Legacy Royalty Model; Oscars Rule on AI; Publishing Industry AI Survey

On this episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Dan Holloway breaks down Audible's decision to retire its legacy royalty model by the end of 2026, explaining what the new model means for audiobook authors and the separate decision about whether to enter the All You Can Listen pool. He also reports on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' new Oscar eligibility rules requiring human actors and writers, and examines a Book Industry Study Group survey showing that concern about AI-generated books in the marketplace has now entered the top four worries for publishing industry professionals.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-audible-retires-legacy-royalty-model/

#Podcast #ACXaudiobookdistribution #AIgeneratedbooks #AllYouCanListen #Audibleroyaltymodel

News Summary: Oscars Require Human Actors and Authors; Canadian Publishing Survey Reveals AI Concerns

From time to time in the past few years, major, globally recognized red carpet events in the creative sphere have issued policies on AI and its eligibility for entry into their sanctum sanctorum. Most notable among them was the Grammys. Until now. The Motion Picture Academy of America has updated the rules governing eligibility for the Oscars.
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https://selfpublishingadvice.org/oscars-require-human-actors-and-authors/

#AIeligibility #AIgeneratedbooks #BISGsurvey #Canadianpublishing #copyrightconcerns

News Podcast: ‘Shy Girl’ Controversy Raises AI Editing Questions; Self-Publishing Surge Sparks Debate

On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway examines the fallout from the “Shy Girl” controversy, where allegations of AI-assisted writing led to a withdrawn book deal and raised new questions about author responsibility and editorial use of AI. He also highlights Jane Friedman’s new AI-in-publishing guide, reports on a surge in self-published titles linked to AI tools, and looks at the growing use of Substack as a platform for fiction.
The post News Podcast: ‘Shy Girl’ Controversy Raises AI Editing Questions; Self-Publishing Surge Sparks Debate appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-ai-editing/

#Podcast #AIeditingethics #AIgeneratedbooks #JaneFriedmanAIFAQ #selfpublishinggrowth

News Summary: EU Removes Books from Deforestation Rules, as Daunt Weighs AI-Generated Titles

We start the week with a round-up of stories I originally had slated for Saturday before sadder events overtook us. First up, two of my favourite topics wrapped into one neat story package: print and European law.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/deforestation-rules/

#AIgeneratedbooks #booksellingtrends #EUDRexemption #Europeanpublishing #jamesdaunt

Apple Loosens App Store Rules; EU Publishers Call for AI Transparency: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

We end the week with a round-up of several small but nonetheless important stories. The biggest of those relates to the recent legal developments in the Epic Games and Apple case. The US courts have ruled that Apple must…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/app-store/

#AIgeneratedbooks #appstorechanges #EUpublishersstatement #KindleiOSupdate #Patreonpayments
@indieauthors

#Google Books Is Indexing #AI-Generated Books

👉 #GoogleBooks is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google #Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track #language use throughout history. 

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-books-important-source-for-academics-may-have-a-bot-problem/articleshow/109089043.cms

#GoogleNgram #NgramViewer #linguistics #diachrony #diachroniclinguistics #research #languages #aigeneratedcontent #AIgeneratedBooks