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Random thing: I'm still working on the plagiarism app, and I loaded AE Via's book and V. Vee's book into it to see what it would find.
This is the result: app.similar.works/book/979861743…
This is the result: app.similar.works/book/979861743…
Now, the issue is that the main algorithm is only picking up some similarities. Maybe 4 hits out of a known 25.
Why 25?
Because I ran both books through a more sensitive version of the algorithm.
Why 25?
Because I ran both books through a more sensitive version of the algorithm.
For comparison, here's the original franken-book by #CopyPasteCris app.similar.works/book/978164186…
I haven't loaded my entire original dataset yet either.
So now I have yet more tweaking to do :P programmer problems amirite
I haven't loaded my entire original dataset yet either.
So now I have yet more tweaking to do :P programmer problems amirite
Imo, another casualty of authors using ghostwriters instead of writing their own books is reader expectation of how long it takes to write a book. Just had a reader tell me that publishing "several books a month" is totally doable if an author writes full-time. #Copypastecris
Again, this wasn't "several books a month" as a pre-planned publicity push, for a total of 4 or 5 books a year. This was the expected pace every month of the entire year.
To clarify, the reader wasn't being rude. She was genuinely confused why people accused those authors of using ghostwriters b/c "if it's your full-time career, you can do it."
More collateral damage of authors pretending to be prolific by using ghostwriters & not disclosing it.
More collateral damage of authors pretending to be prolific by using ghostwriters & not disclosing it.
After #copypastecris, a lot of people are talking about what systems @AmazonKDP should have in place to clean up the Kindle Store.
I've been tracking this issue for years and I'm going to tell you a story which will explain why such talk is hasty. Because Amazon. Doesn't. Care.
I've been tracking this issue for years and I'm going to tell you a story which will explain why such talk is hasty. Because Amazon. Doesn't. Care.
I was the victim of piracy in 2012 - and I mean full-on piracy, where someone had ripped my entire book and published it on Amazon under their own publisher name. Using my name and cover, but under their own account so the royalties would go to them.
It was word-for-word the same book I had published myself on @AmazonKDP - so there was obviously zero plagiarism detection or anything like that. But that wasn't the biggest concern at all. This was far bigger than one author and one book, and Amazon's response was disturbing.
In light of today's revelations/reminders about plagiarism, cheapjack ghostwriters pumping out substandard novels, KU click farms, genderswapping ripoffs, and all the other scammy, lazy $$-grubbing stuff, real writers may well right now be thinking "Why do I bother?"
I don't know why we bother. Let's go to the pub.
No, wait, that wasn't what I meant to say.
No, wait, that wasn't what I meant to say.
We bother because good books matter. And they matter all the more in a rising tide of substandard processed pink slime. People will see it, they will know your name, and they will appreciate that you cared. That you worked. That you did your best.
