Really interesting study. There is， as everyone expected， a flood of AI books. And it is crowding out human authors： "No-AI books， on their own， earn less per book than they did in 2023 in 7 of 8 genres. The one genre where human authors are doing better （+35%） is Fantasy/horror"
Here's the imbalance at the heart of the paper. Over 3 years, the books catalog grew 38x cumulatively. The book's revenue? Only 9x quarterly. Way more books fig...