The Amazon Power of Selling by Jim Kukral from Author Ad Network

This story is related to the first of the week. I promise(ish—breaking news depending) no AI on Saturday, but the issues around Tuhin Chakrabarty's hugely impactful study on AI in self-published novels are so important and widespread I think it is warranted. Especially as this great piece in the New York Times brings out another angle of the story (with thanks to Jane Friedman, whose newsletter gifted the link from behind the NYT paywall).

Allegations stick. It's an uncomfortable truth we all know. We also know that cheating the system really sucks and casts a very wide shadow on all those within the system. As I have said many times before, I'm an endurance athlete in my spare time, so I've seen how that works many times within the sports I love.