Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

• Back in February Simon & Schuster paid seven figures for a novel with significant chunks of AI slop. (paywalled, sorry)
• Hugh Howey just released the first version of a writing app he had been working on.
• Kobo ereaders are back in Best Buy stores.
• Book Riot is running a survey to find out what counts as AI-written.
• It turns out we are not very good at spotting AI-written stories.
• According to a forecast published back in March, enhanced ebooks are going to make a comeback.  I will beleive it when I see it.
• The thing about enhanced ebooks (or multi-modal ebooks, as the forecast calls them) is that when they were tried fifteen plus years ago, hardly anyone wanted to buy them. Aside from a few niche markets (some kids books, and some educational ebooks) the public almost universally preferred the plain text stories they already liked on paper, but on a screen. And frankly, I haven’t seen anything in the past 15 years which would make me think this has changed.