My local public library is buying and loaning out AI-generated print-on-demand books, sourced from Kindle Direct Publishing 🙄
Honestly, there are so many good real books out there. How and why are these no-effort Kindle Direct texts are appearing in printed form in libraries - does anyone even look at what they are purchasing?
the travel guide to Benidorm is particularly interesting because there are multiple versions of this going around, with different authors names on them.
the RRP on these books is astonishingly high considering the poor quality of the content inside them. Someone is making a lot of money (from public library budgets?) off this I suspect! 🙃
@rmounce I wonder if there's a second aspect to this where they produce the book and then put in some kind of lending request themselves that causes a copy to be bought by the library?
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