Note to my readers, I've pulled my books from sale.

Discussion in 'Survival Reading Room' started by DKR, Nov 5, 2024.


  1. DKR

    DKR Raconteur of the first stripe

    I've closed my Amazon account. Nothing against KDP, they have done everything they said they would do.
    Just getting out of the biz.

    DKR/dkr
     
  2. Zimmy

    Zimmy Wait, I'm not ready!

    There go my millions of $$
     
  3. DKR

    DKR Raconteur of the first stripe

    :LOL:

    Have to sell books to make $$$.

    The market is saturated with BS AI generated 'survival ' books.

    Last year I logged $37 in sales for the year....
     
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  4. Gator 45/70

    Gator 45/70 Monkey+++

    Aw man, bummer, I get a magazine 4 times a year, Books I don't keep around.
    I was reading 3 books at a time and one day simply quit reading.
     
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  5. Zimmy

    Zimmy Wait, I'm not ready!

    Check your eye prescription. That's happened to me twice. Once with books, once with kindle. I was leaning way too hard on audible.
     
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  6. Tempstar

    Tempstar Monkey+++

    You should make a box set. Sign me up.
     
  7. Bandit99

    Bandit99 Monkey+++ Site Supporter+

    Really? AI actually writing books? Thats quite interesting... How do they read? I mean, is the story line put together well, the flow, characters developed...
     
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  8. DKR

    DKR Raconteur of the first stripe

    Badly. Much like the dreck that drones on and on as found on YT. The character development is - at best - cliche and vanilla.
     
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  9. DKR

    DKR Raconteur of the first stripe

    @Bandit99

    sample of the AI crap out there




    these are narrated.
     
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  10. sec_monkey

    sec_monkey SM Security Administrator

    sorry ta hear Sir @DKR :(


    .. .. yup yup AI is bad .. .. many factual errors .. .. AI hallucinations .. .. [loco] [loco] stuff n things .. ..
     
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  11. Wildbilly

    Wildbilly Monkey+++

    We better ALL get used to AI competition because I'm afraid that it's the future, on the bright side, I hope to be retired or dead by then. A young woman that I work with is an art major at the local university (I hope that she can clean windows). She was complaining recently about the art dept. having an AI generated art exhibit on the dept. website. She was outraged that the university would be promoting non-human artist. I agreed with her and pointed out the short-sightedness of the art dept./university since AI is unlikely to be a generous member of the alumni association, but I pointed out that AI would most likely replace highly paid professionals first. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, and engineers are as replaceable as lower paid truck drivers and burger flippers.
     
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  12. reinkefj

    reinkefj REINKEFJ

    Not so sure about AI. I can find mistakes in what I read. Synonyms and homonyms are dead giveaways,
     
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  13. Dont

    Dont Just another old gray Jarhead Monkey

    Truly sorry to hear this. I have enjoyed reading your books, and find my self revisiting them when need a pick-me-up.
     
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  14. 3M-TA3

    3M-TA3 Cold Wet Monkey

    There should be a "Made by AI" or "Contains AI generated Content" disclaimer on everything produced using AI.

    @DKR sorry to hear your business has been off shored to a f*****g computer program. IMO almost all intellectual property will do the same.

    I'm glad I purchased several of your works. They are among the best of the genre.
     
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  15. DKR

    DKR Raconteur of the first stripe

    Thank you for the kind words.
     
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  16. DKR

    DKR Raconteur of the first stripe

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