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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
On the one hand, I agree. But then I've also been moving my purchasing to Kobo when I can and I do find a number of interesting books that are tied to Amazon due to Kindle Unlimited exclusivity requirements.
In my paper book days, I would never try indie books. But I do feel like the ease of digital publishing and the ubiquity of Amazon has led to better writers to experiment with self publishing and made it easier to sort out the dross.
So I know from articles that AI generated garbage clogs KU, but I don't ever see those books when I am on Amazon.
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I find quite a number of big-publisher backlist titles (e.g. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari) are on KU, and have no trouble finding quality books more generally.
I think I encountered one AI title (or it was written by someone who wrote like one), but it was so uninformative that I couldn't make it through one chapter (it was supposed to be a book about Babylonian history). There is a lot of garbage too but it's pretty obvious when that's the case.
As for Vella, I did try it a little but it had no appeal for me. I gather it was supposed to be reading for people without time to read? But for me it was more of a distraction from the reading I enjoy doing.