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This week, we discuss why the publishing industry is pointing fingers at libraries for declining author incomes, but we wonder about the reasons they aren't talking about. Plus, have you heard of Elias Thorne? We talk about AI's repetition problem and why that may be good news for authors. And we revisit the thorny issue of book lists - after we criticised the Guardian's first 'Best 100 books', is their Readers' list any better?

00:00 Intro

01:14 Declining Author Income - Libraries to Blame?

14:13 Thorne in the Machine - AI Running Out of Ideas?

23:38 Guardian Top 100 - Readers vs Critics

30:40 Stranger Than Fiction - Nadine's Idea Factory

38.23 The Final Chapter - Horrifyingly Good

Links:

Authors Guild Looks at Why Author Incomes are in Decline

Chatbots Keep Telling Stories about Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why

Wikipedia may have built the best AI writing detection guide

The Guardian Readers top 100 novels of all time

Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones

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