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Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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If you're gone go that way, then limit it to one book per MONTH, anything faster than that would be suspect
I don't see a problem with someone publishing a backlog of multiple books at once. 3 per day seems pretty reasonable. Maybe even something like 3 per day and at most 10 per month might work.
A backlog doesn't give you 3 per day sustained. Limit publishing tone book per day still gives you 30 books per month. Even with a backlog that should be way more than even Stephen King would need.
On the other hand though, say you've been writing a web novel that could be sliced up into 3 separate books or you just have 3 books that's only now getting released. You could release them over time or you could choose to have all 3 go up at once. Not to mention as a first act of defense, it's a reasonable action to make and is easily adjustable later on.
There's probably other reasons why someone would release more than one book at once that's completely understandable, especially when considering what technically counts as a "book" such as translations or a company publishing titles of multiple authors under one name,
Multiple authors published in one book wouldn't happen in self-publishing because there's no incentive. The point about a collection of short stories is that it isn't economical for a publisher to publish them individually, but with self-publishing that economic restriction doesn't exist.
Make it 12 in a year then
Chuck Tingle was pumping out multiple a month before language models were a thing.
Unless they're short stories, or someone putting out a chapter at a time for cheap and then compiling them into collections later. Still 3 chapters a day is pretty extreme, maybe a chapter a day I could see if you have the work ethic of Stephen King.
Which again limits you to tops maybe 1-2 books a month, let.alone a day