KDP now allows only two new titles per format each week
From 21 September an account can create two new ebooks, two paperbacks, and two hardcovers a week. The counter resets Sunday at 00:00 UTC. Books already published are untouched.
AI, copyright & law
10 briefs in this drawer.
AI ‘parasite’ books are appearing on living authors’ Amazon pages
The Atlantic documents AI-generated titles published under real authors’ names. Fans have bought them. Amazon removes listings after a complaint — and does not check authorship at upload.
Unredacted NYT filings quote a Microsoft exec calling AI scraping theft
TechCrunch reports newly unsealed material in the Times v. OpenAI case, a week after the US Justice Department backed OpenAI’s fair-use argument.
Canada will not issue ISBNs for primarily AI-generated books
Library and Archives Canada now makes authors declare a human wrote the book. Grammar and formatting help is allowed. Generated text, art, or translation is not.
Meta teen settlement changes how ads reach under-18s
A late-August US state settlement requires age assurance, time caps, and a non-personalized feed for teens. Advertisers can no longer treat teen inventory like adult targeting.
Amazon Ads opens a ChatGPT inventory pilot for US DSP buyers
Select US advertisers can now extend Amazon campaigns into ChatGPT. OpenAI still decides which ads serve. This is a pilot, not a self-serve author product.
Anthropic payouts may slip as class lawyers appeal fees
ALLi’s news editor flags an appeal over reduced legal fees that could delay the $3,000-per-title payments, plus a Guild survey on who actually registered the copyrights.
FTC and 22 states sue Amazon over ad-auction pricing
The complaint says Amazon overrode advertised auction results and extracted more than $20 billion from advertisers since 2019.
Google opens purchased Play Books inside Gemini Notebook
Expert Intelligence lets a reader query a title they already bought. The launch catalogue is licensed trad-publisher stock, not the open KDP backlist.
Kobo returns to Best Buy; ALLi reports Amazon destroying books for AI training
A retail foothold for Kobo in US big-box, and a grim rights story about physical copies being pulped to feed models.