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The Human Authorship Premium Is Forming — and It Will Reshape the Entire Book Market

Penguin Random House's mandatory AI disclosure forms and Amazon's KDP upload cap are not administrative responses — they are the opening infrastructure of a two-tier book market in which 'human authored' becomes a premium category, not a default assumption.

Miles ThorntonMarch 18, 20268 min read

Fiction

The KDP Flood and What Follows

Amazon's cap on daily self-publishing uploads is not a solution — it is a marker: the point at which the fiction market acknowledged that machine-generated content had exceeded human curatorial capacity. What comes next will determine whether literary culture survives the infrastructure shock.

Marcus WebbMarch 18, 20267 min read