It’s funny how fast things are shaking up in the publishing industry. Barely a week ago I was telling you how Amazon is taking its first step against AI-generated books in the form of a new questionnaire you must answer when publishing a title regarding your use of AI.
Before the digital ink dried on my screen, the company took the second step in the form of a new limit on the number of new titles any author or publisher may publish daily. The announcement came in the form of an update posted in the KDP Community Forum:
In order to help protect against abuse, we are lowering the volume limits we have in place on new title creations. Very few publishers will be impacted by this change and those who are will be notified and have the option to seek an exception.
A Preventative Measure?
Interestingly, Amazon clarifies that this is more of a preventative measure, as it has not seen a spike in publishing numbers. While this may well be the case, it suggests there are publishing farms that are easy enough to distinguish based on the number of titles they publish daily — something that seems to have caught the company’s eye. Amazon also reminded people that it is actively monitoring the rapid evolution of generative AI and the impact it is having on reading, writing, and publishing.
Just when you think the publishing industry has settled down, AI comes along. We sure live in exciting times. At this pace, expect the third step to come in a few days — and, as always, expect to read all about it here 🙂
Nicholas C. Rossis 
Thanks for the update, Nicholas. Good to see Amazon rolling out these obstacles to AI.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It’s a process – I’m sure there’s more to come 🙂
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Interesting. I’m really glad that Amazon is taking steps to try to ensure that AI generated books don’t swamp the market. However, these people will come up with some way around it. Maybe simply only releasing the allowed number of books? They’ll still make a load of money. And if I can think of that with 2 seconds thought and no experience, I’m sure they’ll find a more sophisticated way to do it. It’s one long, constant battle.
Sorry to be negative. This is good news.
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Oh, absolutely – it’s a process, not a destination. There’s bound to be a lot more chapters in *this* story 🙂
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Another positive step. Cheers, Jon.
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Indeed, one of many to come. Thank you, Jon 🙂
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At least they are doing something…
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I think they’re starting to realize how dangerous this was to the whole KENP model. There’s a lot of money at stake!
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It does sound as though they are desperate!
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I don’t know if I’d go so far but yeah, they must be pretty worried!
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I just went through the process. Had to answer the question.
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You’re the first I know of who’s done that but won’t be the last 🙂
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I saw that
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Good to see them doing something. I honestly didnt think they would for a a while yet.
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Yes, I was a bit surprised by how fast this happened myself.
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It must be tough for publishing sites to stay ahead of the AI game. Thanks for the info. I hope it doesn’t affect human authors!
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It’s been a constant war between scammers and Amazon for years now. This is but the latest chapter in that book, but there’s bound to be a lot more!
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I like your banner. It is exactly like that, isn’t it? Amazon is firing the first shot.
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Thanks! It took me forever to find the right prompt for Fotor and then required some editing to perfect it 🙂
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