Generative AI has made Amazon’s knockoff problem more inescapable than ever. Authors tell Rolling Stone it’s leaving them frustrated—and the internet worse in the process “The problem with these slop ...

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In August 2026, a claim circulated online that tech giant Amazon was acquiring large quantities of books, some of them rare, and cutting off the spines to more efficiently scan the pages for ...

Amazon has taken some steps to stem the tide of books written with artificial intelligence, but another solution may already exist. Amazon has an artificial intelligence problem. Namely, that its ...

The Amazon Kindle Colorsoft (7/10, WIRED Review) launched with some issues, which Amazon has since addressed. This Kindle is a little quirky. It finally has color, and it’s got a long battery life, ...

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Amazon today is launching its own competitor to Goodreads, a book tracking and recommendations site it also owns. The retailer announced the launch of a new Amazon feature, Your Books, which will ...

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It's a simple question without an easy answer: What makes a best book of the year? Is it a novel begging to become a contemporary classic or a retelling of the classics themselves? Is it a book that ...