@susankayequinn I am all for the alternatives, but there are no ads imbedded in amazon ebooks.

@farbel first, you don't know that; second, they're *already* putting chatbots in the ebooks; third, Amazon has a long long LONG history of just rolling out stuff in small batch trials to see how it floats; fourth, I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was AI accidentally left in the ebook by a shitty AI enthusiast author; fifth, people have OPENLY talked about ads in ebooks FOREVER; sixth, if this is none of the above, wait a minute, that will change.

@susankayequinn First, I read a LOT of books on my aging kindle and have NEVER seen an ad. Second, nor have I ever seen a chatbot. Third, I don't know one single other person who has seen an ad or chatbot in an Amazon ebook. Your fourth point, I might believe, but that is not indicative of anything Amazon is doing other than allowing people to publish AI drek. Fifth, talk is talk. Sixth, everything changes, but that doesn't make your reposted meme true.

@farbel @susankayequinn the search has literally turned into a chat bot on iOS. It looks like classic search but it isn’t [edit: this is taking about search within the iOS kindle app, see linked article in thread above]. Doesn’t seem to be all books it’s doing to for me, but if it’s done that you can’t turn it off. You can give feedback on the answers.