clive,
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Amazon is crawling with travel guides written by AI -- vague, crappy, and pushed up in search results by astroturfed fake five-star reviews: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/travel/amazon-guidebooks-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=Gmcb6fkRXSAX7JUdbTpFyhH1lSBWBcI0RuiXgcku3gVTdQV7s_SPvl1tKw76F_txTehAmHdU0bZ3PUoPyH0h-dybeb8_bGL7UzysZynt-SFcx9yByC4wr37_65cVodjr_Z-sRcqUfioeOsUAKJpEECejhG2SlL4jPCoaBG8PFnu_YLKDXA0hkzvhrJnGuD5kw59N8Bz7T7D7UOeJXLkowJnnoB6IDt6bHn6XiBvlH--t6M_9xmGCkNlYdtiiScdbS3ebGG5C3xKkCxwacaT96yLi9NK5dx9YHwhHSPdoVJPqslvVGAwQFvpSQvDvgHZGOFxW09EeUVAHYZl6uI-aSYS0_UfYhcXjDi6J2-M1oFlpWg&smid=url-share

That's a "gift" link so you don't need to be a New York Times subscriber to read it

It's a great investigation, and highlights the real problem, which is ...

... unsurprisingly by now, Amazon seemingly does little-to-nothing to stop this

The site is just soiled top to bottom with fake crap in every category

CandaceRobbAuthor,
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@clive Why anyone uses them for books where there are so many independents online, and bookshop.org, I don't understand.

ClaireFromClare,
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@CandaceRobbAuthor @clive Agree! For delivery of books & music in the UK there's also www.hive.co.uk
My current favourite loves Hive.The is tiny, with very high danger-to-size ratio, & has made as much money through nominations on Hive as on direct sales. Hive is run by Gardners the big UK book distributor. If you can pick up in the shop, it earns 25%.

@bookstodon

ClaireFromClare,
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@CandaceRobbAuthor @clive Thanks to @bigbeardedbookseller for listing #IndependentBookshops at http://www.indiebookshops.com
Many listings already for UK & Ireland, & I love the ambition to cover the rest of the world. Readers in #India #Malaysia #Myannmar #SriLanka, let's add favourite #IndieBookshops to the list! & then invite them to tell us more, by engaging with the interesting questionnaire?
#books #bookstodon @bookstodon

CandaceRobbAuthor,
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@ClaireFromClare @clive @bookstodon I've heard that hive is great in the UK. Here in the US I have found bookshop.org to be about the best, and we can specify what independent we want to receive 20% so I move around some wonderful locals like Third Place Books, University Bookstore, Queen Anne Books, Edmonds Bookhop.

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