Reimers, Imke; Waldfogel, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2026
With the diffusion of LLMs between 2022 and 2025, new book releases have tripled, raising a question of AI's impact on … book quality. We develop a ratings-based usage measure that is comparable across book release vintages, and we find that …-LLM authors entrants has risen. A nested logit calibration shows that LLM-enhanced book production could, in steady state, raise …