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Perhaps we could toss in the number of authors who are very seriously considering dropping Amazon exclusivity? One author was mentioning that due to sheer number of AI authored books and books authored by a human author with AI assistance, their payout from Kindle Unlimited has dropped precipitously. Some of this is due to the AI authored/assisted books being "read" by AI readers ensuring they will get a disproportionate chunk of the KU pie (two examples were an author who has published a book a day for the last 2 months while another is a series of very similar books with similar author names and content.[*]) They are very seriously considering going back to their "day job" after 4 years where being an indie author was their job.
[*] As my wife complains about the genres she reads, it's bad enough that many indie authors are notorious for jumping onto bandwagons (Stories about vampire aliens are selling! I must write a few!) but now you are getting AI created series that make finding a new author in a genre a quest on the order of finding a needle lost in a 3 hectare hay field.
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