9 Extra Perks You Can Get By Joining Amazon Prime
Image: Cascade Creatives (Shutterstock) As another aside to Prime Reading, Amazon offers its First Reads option to Prime members, giving them early access to newly released books. Each month, the…
Amazon Restricts Authors to Self-Publishing Three Books a Day, a Totally Human Amount
Image: Anna Svetlova (Shutterstock) As authors grapple with the anxiety of an impending AI takeover in the publishing world, Amazon wants you to know that it’s taking those concerns very…
AI Is Being Used to Ban Books From School Libraries
You can add regressive academic censorship to the list of unintended use cases for ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence models. In Iowa, a school district reportedly deployed AI software to identify and…
Amazon Removes AI-Generated Books That Spoofed an Author’s Byline
Amazon has removed half a dozen AI-generated books published under a living author’s name without her consent following a social media backlash. Though the misleading content was finally removed on…
Fiction Analytics Site Prosecraft Shut Down After Author Backlash
Prosecraft.io, a site that used novels to help power a data-driven project to display word count, passive voice, and other much more subjective, writing-style markers such as vividness, shut down…