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Kindle's New Gen AI-Powered "Ask This Book" Feature Raises Rights Concerns - Writer Beware
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this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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lol yeah that’s not gonna fly in court. You can’t unilaterally make tectonic post hoc contractual adjustments like that. Or, you’re not supposed to be able to. But who knows these days.
Doesn't mean they won't try.
Wasting everyone's time and money in the process, while hoping to bankrupt anyone standing in their way with obscenely huge legal bills.
It's not really an adjustment though? Amazon's publishing contract has always preserved the standard AND extended publisher rights (which other publishers do the same way btw, maybe not with this level of hostility as they can't afford to lose writers, but publishers have had an insane amount of leverage for decades now).
Basically the moment you agree for Amazon to publish your book, you give them permission to handle it as if it were their own product - you're "just" the author, who gets a pittance from sales.
So unless the authors can show that Amazon's approach is causing them direct financial harm and therefore the publishing contract is to be terminated, courts won't be too helpful.
Yes it will. "We can change this contract at will any time without notice"
You signed. You don't have an inaliable right to be informed. These kinds of sentences show up all over EULA's and other consent forms.
Amazon isn't entering a business contract with you. They're merely selling/publishing your product.
And you signed away your ownership.