Given how little Amazon have done to protect the customers of physical goods from getting garbage, I don’t think they would even bother looking for the metaphor

Given how little Amazon have done to protect the customers of physical goods from getting garbage, I don’t think they would even bother looking for the metaphorical hammer let alone dropping it on garbage book writers filling the store with what is basically spam today and GPT nonsense tomorrow… Case in point: You can find numerous instances of people (multiple people often do this for the same book leading to multiple entries) uploading public domain works of the US government such as NASA NTRS pdfs, or military history compilations that were done by government military historians and are thus also public domain… all uploaded to Amazon by someone hoping that their Amazon link shows up higher in the search results (or gets the top spot as a suggested shopping link) than the original free public domain PDF. Amazon seems ok with this. Another case: Amazon happily allows multiple garbage grade copies of public domain books to coexist in the kindle store (last time I looked) there were plenty of old project Gutenberg text dumps run though some kind of txt2mobi pipeline and just left on the store as a dollar, or even if they bothered to try and have a nice cover art/jacket they usually set the price as a few dollars… all for a public domain book that should be free (and is since there’s also usually someone who has uploaded the same book and listed it for free) I think the mantra at Amazon is “more books = bigger kindle store = more value for customers using the kindle ecosystem = more good” with zero consideration of how they could be slowly undermining the consumer trust in their platform. This feels to me like the same management playbook at work in the physical goods space where Amazon are facing a rising tide of counterfeit goods and they seem structurally incapable of solving these problems… if management cared something would be different. Why will this be different for ebooks?