New paper finds AI-written books are flooding Amazon and crowding out sales
TuhinChakr · x · 2026-07-30
- A new paper studies how AI-written self-published fiction is reshaping Amazon’s book market.
- Using full-text AI detection from Pangram, the authors analyzed genre fiction books sold on Amazon from 2023 to March 2026.
- Their key finding: Amazon is flooded with books containing substantial AI text, and these books are making meaningful money while crowding out sales of non-AI books.
- The chart in the post shows releases growing much faster than sales or revenue: released books are up 38.3x, while selling books are up 19.2x, revenue 8.9x, and sales 7.3x versus 2023.
- The paper’s broader point is that a book does not need to be high quality to distort the market; it only needs to exist at scale, which generative AI makes possible.
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