We need this for technical books. I was a chapter into something the other day before deciding I’d been hoodwinked into reading someone’s ChatGPT output
For example, I stumbled on https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DT4TKY58 and had never heard of the author. Their page (https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004LUETE8) suggested they were incredibly prolific in a huge number of areas which already felt off. No information about "Robert Johnson" was available either. The publisher, HiTeX Press (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=HiTeX+Press) has a few other authors with similarly generic names and no information available about them, each the author of numerous books spanning a huge array of topics.
It feels even more bewildering and disheartening to see AI slop come into the physical world like this.
There are lots of other ebook stores and physical book stores that don't enable scams, mistreat workers, or do this weird AI junk.
Recommendations for alternatives would be very welcome.
(Now, when a book does have DRM, I buy it from Kobo! I'll leave it to the reader to speculate why :) )
It's disheartening because now I will look much more into reputable publishers, and so filter off independent writers who have nothing to do with this.