# AI-Written Books Are Swamping Amazon — and Human Authors’ Earnings Are Paying the Price

For anyone earning a living with words, one figure stands out: from the first quarter of 2023 to the first quarter of 2026, Amazon's self-published catalog expanded 38.3 times over. Revenue, meanwhile, rose just 8.9 times. The distance between those two numbers is the entire story. Vastly more books

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| Published | 16 August 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/ai-written-books-are-swamping-amazon-and-human-authors-earnings-are-paying-the-price/