Amazon Pumps Brakes on Reviews of Gov. Kristi Noem’s Dog-Killing Memoir
Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images (Getty Images) South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has a new book out that has gotten her some extra attention due to her claim of meeting North…
Author Loses Book Deal After Blaming Star Wars Fans for Bizarre Review-Bombing Scheme [Update]
Update: Late Monday evening, Corrain confirmed that she’d been review bombing POC authors, attributing it to past struggles with mental health. As she explained on Twitter, she had a mental…
Author Loses Book Deal After Blaming Star Wars Fans for Bizarre Review-Bombing Scheme
Late last week, the YA fantasy/sci-fi book scene found itself in disarray following allegations of an author review bombing several other authors in the community. The end result has seen…
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…
‘Nonfiction’ Book About Maui Wildfire ‘Smells of AI,’ Gets Pulled From Amazon
Wildfires in Maui have devastated the communities in Hawaii over the last week, but a new book listed on Amazon about the natural disaster has raised eyebrows from reviewers. Top…
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…
Neil Gaiman claims Goodreads account was hacked to diss Amanda Palmer
Neil Gaiman is either extremely cold blooded, or the victim of a hack. The American Gods author is claiming the latter Saturday, after a post to his Goodreads account appeared…