{
  "id": 20194,
  "url": "https://the-decoder.com/ai-generated-books-are-flooding-amazon-and-tanking-sales-for-human-authors",
  "title": "AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors",
  "summary": "AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is dropping for human-written titles too, in seven of eight genres. The findings could give copyright plaintiffs the market-harm data their cases against AI companies have been missing. The article AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors appeared first on The Decoder .",
  "authors": "Jonathan Kemper",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "copyright-ip",
  "orgs": "amazon",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-15T11:00:50.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-15T20:58:20.399Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-decoder",
  "source_name": "The Decoder",
  "source_homepage": "https://the-decoder.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/20194",
  "original_url": "https://the-decoder.com/ai-generated-books-are-flooding-amazon-and-tanking-sales-for-human-authors",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}