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Generative AI floods book market, diluting revenue and sales per book

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A new study analyzing 14,419 self-published genre-fiction books sold on Amazon between 2023 and 2026 reveals that generative AI-produced content, despite often being low-quality, is significantly impacting the book market. While these AI-generated books constitute a large portion of the catalog, they capture a smaller but growing share of sales. The influx of AI content has led to a market expansion where the number of books with sales grew nearly 20-fold, but revenue only increased about 9-fold, causing revenue per book to decline. This trend disproportionately affects books without AI text, particularly in genres with high AI diffusion and Kindle Unlimited availability. AI

IMPACT Generative AI is reshaping creative markets through sheer volume, leading to market dilution and reduced revenue per book, impacting human authors.

RANK_REASON Academic paper analyzing market impact of generative AI on book sales. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Tuhin Chakrabarty, Xinyue Liu, Jane C. Ginsburg, Paramveer Dhillon ·

    Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books

    arXiv:2607.20349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI can produce book-length works of fiction at near-zero cost. These books are often dismissed as low-quality ``slop'' that buyers will ignore, and are assumed to carry little commercial weight. We test that assumption …

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