YCD News – Books produced by ChatGPT are creating a craze on Amazon. Writing a book using ChatGPT, which takes only hours from idea to publication, has attracted an influx of creators and is being sold on Amazon, the largest retailer of physical books and e-books in the United States.
Hours to create a book, massive influx of AI-generated books on Amazon
As of mid-February, more than 200 e-books in Amazon’s Kindle store reportedly listed ChatGPT as an author or co-author, as more people are using ChatGPT to produce books and sell them on Amazon.
That number is now rising daily, and a new subcategory has even appeared on Amazon covering books in which ChatGPT participated or was written entirely by ChatGPT.
Illustrated children’s books are the most popular type of books created using ChatGPT.
Brett Schickler, a salesman from New York, said he created a book in a matter of hours by providing ChatGPT with simple prompts, such as “a story about a father teaching his son about money management.” In a few hours, he produced a 30-page illustrated children’s e-book that went on sale through Amazon.com in January.
The book, titled “Smart Little Squirrel: A Story of Saving and Investing,” retails for $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store and $9.99 in print.
Meanwhile, a number of tutorials for creating books using ChatGPT have appeared on social media such as YouTube, TikTok and Reddit, demonstrating how to create a book in just a few hours. Topics include get-rich-quick schemes, dieting advice, software coding tips and recipes.
In fact, because many authors do not disclose whether they use ChatGPT in the creation process, the number of books created by ChatGPT may actually be higher than what we’ve seen so far, in part because Amazon’s policy does not require authors to disclose this.
ChatGPT book explodes on Amazon with mixed reviews
Amazon is by far the largest seller of physical books and e-books in the U.S., accounting for more than half of physical book sales in the U.S. and more than 80 percent of e-book sales. In addition, Amazon’s book sales threshold is relatively low.
Therefore, Amazon naturally becomes a great sales platform for ChatGPT-created books. However, ChatGPT-created books have received mixed reviews on Amazon.
For example, KamilBanc used ChatGPT to create a 27-page illustrated children’s book, but so far, despite selling only a dozen copies, it has received 5 stars, with buyers saying the characters in the book are memorable. And another creator, Publishing, said the ChatGPT-assisted completion of the novel was too tedious.
At the same time, the books created by ChatGPT are also prone to the risk of plagiarism and infringement, so there are still many risks in this track in the short term, but in the long term, ChatGPT will indeed have an impact on the field of book creation and will bring new opportunities for wealth creation.
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