WTF - the state of new books via Amazons as one author has published 47 books so far this year

[SebastianHolt]

So just for kicks, I went to the Amazon website, looked at the top 100 erotic books, and my mind was ... shocked. With a bit of legwork, I discovered one author has published at least 47 books on Amazon (THIS YEAR) that are 300+ pages ... yeah, okay, that's real. The question is, did she use A.I.? The name listed is female, but is she a she? do you care?

 

[MillieDynamite]

That'd be at least 75,000 words, counting the industry average of 250 words per page. Not undoable. But that means it's a full-time job with little time for plotting and other such luxuries.

 

[crookedletter]

It's possible she had a backlog she published all at once. Or she used AI. She wouldn't be the first, and probably not the last.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I'd think editing all the AIisms out would take longer than writing the stories.

It's possible she had a backlog she published all at once. Or she used AI. She wouldn't be the first, and probably not the last.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Wait, that's 75,000 words per book, totaling three million five hundred thousand words at the minimum, and definitely using AI or a team of coauthors.

 

[Britva415]

So just for kicks, I went to the Amazon website, looked at the top 100 erotic books, and my mind was ... shocked. With a bit of legwork, I discovered one author has published at least 47 books on Amazon (THIS YEAR) that are 300+ pages ... yeah, okay, that's real. The question is, did she use A.I.? The name listed is female, but is she a she? do you care?

Yeah, who's to say they weren't written before this year.

 

[TheLobster]

three million five hundred thousand words at the minimum

Pff, that’s maybe like three days of new stories on Lit. Peanuts!

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Yeah, that's heavy usage of AI, and it's only going to get worse. Meanwhile, legit authors are having problems reaching their audience because "authors" like the one the O.P. mentioned are saturating the market with crap.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Pff, that’s maybe like three days of new stories on Lit. Peanuts!

Maybe Amazon kept her books in the queue for years and released them all at once this year.

Wait, when did Laurel start working for Amazon?

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

Maybe they were lifted from us Lit authors. It's happened before. Have you searched here for similar titles?

 

[NaughteeDragon]

There are a couple of authors I used to read that were actually a consortium of authors working together. The “author” would publish a new book every week, each one about 75,000 words, they would rotate through 4 different series at a time. Turns out each author was churning a little over 1 book a month.