What is changing for novelists, self-published authors and the book business as AI moves into writing and publishing. Every story links to the reporting it draws on. How we report · Writing guides
A Carolinian column traces how Shy Girl went from self-published horror novel to Hachette release to cancellation once readers concluded it was AI slop.
Grant, author of The Ended World, tells Book Riot her novel's plot about a seemingly conscious AI now echoes real debates among publications and tech firms.
The audio fiction platform says Sherpa's agents track characters and plot across long-running stories while creators keep control of decisions.
Jane Friedman's site publishes exercises to keep prose from sounding generic, while separate reports detail AI's e-waste and executives' long history of regulation calls.
University of Washington researchers analysed 500,000 ChatGPT prompts and found a small group of power users driving heavy demand for AI-generated stories and erotica.
A Stony Brook-led study of 14,419 self-published titles found Amazon's catalog grew 38 times over three years while revenue grew only 9 times.
