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The Lucrative World of Literary Scams
The Dial reports on the growing business of literary scams, with a focus on AI-generated books being passed off as human-authored work. Fraudulent authors and fake backlists are flooding online bookstores, profiting from publishing platforms' automated systems while readers and legitimate writers pay the price. The article examines how the economics of self-publishing make such schemes lucrative and what platforms and publishers are doing, or failing to do, to stop them.
Why now: Concern over AI-generated fake books flooding online bookstores is a current and contentious topic in publishing.
The DialAmazonself-publishing platformsAI-generated books
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