Where each store and institution stands on AI-written books — and how Prizim keeps your work on the right side of every line they draw.
Every major bookstore now has a position on AI. They differ in wording and mechanics, but they agree on one distinction: text an AI wrote is one thing; text you wrote with AI's help is another. Prizim is built around that distinction. The summaries below are drawn from the platforms' own published guidance and are re-checked monthly; a person reviews every change before it appears here.
Last reviewed October 14, 2026 checked monthly, changes reviewed by a person
AI-generated
The AI produced the text, images or translation itself — even if you edited it afterwards. Most stores require disclosure; some decline it outright.
AI-assisted
You created the content and used AI to brainstorm, outline, check, edit or refine it. No store currently requires disclosure for this, and it is where Prizim keeps you.
The stores
Platform by platform
Ebook, print and the largest self-publishing market
Amazon KDP
Disclosure required for AI-generated; none for AI-assisted
KDP asks you to declare AI-generated text, images or translations when you set up a title, via checkboxes in the Content section. The disclosure is internal to Amazon and is not shown to readers. Text that an AI drafted stays “AI-generated” in Amazon's eyes even after substantial human editing. Work you wrote yourself and refined with AI — brainstorming, outlining, editing, error-checking — is “AI-assisted” and needs no disclosure.
How you disclose
Checkbox per title in the KDP Content section; not visible to customers; no effect on royalties or discoverability.
How it's enforced
Automated review of submissions for undisclosed AI content and submission velocity; a cap of three new titles per day per account. Consequences range from removal and royalty holds to account termination for repeat violations.
With PrizimPrizim's provenance ledger records that the final text of every passage was written by you; the Authorship Report answers the KDP question with evidence rather than memory.
Disclosure in metadata when a material portion is AI-generated
If a material portion of a book's content was generated by AI rather than written by a human author, Apple asks for an “AI Generated by” contributor role in the metadata and a statement in the description. Using AI as an assistant — research, brainstorming, editing — for a human-written book requires no disclosure.
How you disclose
Contributor role “AI Generated by” plus a note in the book description.
How it's enforced
Content review against Apple Books for Authors guidelines.
With PrizimBecause the words that go to print are yours, the “AI Generated by” role does not apply; your Writing Receipts show the drafting happened at your keyboard.
Mandatory disclosure; distinguishes AI-Created from AI-Assisted
B&N Press requires an AI disclosure during Build-a-Book under “Rights and Other Information”. It defines AI-Created content as text, artwork or translation generated by AI even if edited afterwards, and AI-Assisted as material you created and then edited or expanded with AI's help.
How you disclose
Required field in the Build-a-Book workflow; a project cannot be published without it.
How it's enforced
Submissions must meet the B&N Press content policy; misdeclared projects can be removed.
With PrizimPrizim's categories map directly onto B&N's: mechanical fixes you accepted and passages you wrote are AI-Assisted by their definition.
No disclosure field; AI-generated books are a listed reason for rejection
Kobo offers no AI checkbox. Instead it names wholly or partially AI-generated books as a common reason a title is rejected, describing them as an unsatisfactory reading experience that lacks genuine human effort. Kobo screens internally and can remove works it judges to be primarily machine-generated.
How you disclose
None required; quality review instead.
How it's enforced
Internal screening; rejection or removal of titles judged primarily AI-generated.
With PrizimA manuscript revised in Prizim carries a human author's choices on every passage, which is exactly the effort Kobo says it looks for.
No AI-specific rule; general quality policy applies
Google Play Books has published no AI disclosure requirement. Its content policies prohibit low-quality material — gibberish, repetition, text without depth or curation — and it enforces them with automated models and human review.
How you disclose
None.
How it's enforced
Automated and human quality review; removal of content that violates the policies.
With PrizimPrizim's whole purpose is depth and curation — your decisions, passage by passage — so the quality bar is the one you were already clearing.
Print and ebook distribution to bookstores and libraries
IngramSpark
Disclosure at title setup since May 2026; no wholly AI-created books
IngramSpark asks you to disclose AI use when you set up a title and to attribute it in the contributor metadata as “Assisted By – Generative AI”. It accepts books with significant human editorial review and declines works created solely by generative AI. The data is collected to understand usage and is not currently passed to retailers.
How you disclose
Title-setup question plus a contributor-metadata attribution.
How it's enforced
Rejection of works created solely by generative AI.
With PrizimIf you used Prizim's AI suggestions as reference, “Assisted By – Generative AI” is the honest attribution — and the Authorship Report shows the extent of the assistance.
Aggregator distributing to Apple, Kobo, B&N, libraries and more
Draft2Digital
AI-assisted welcome; wholly AI-generated text declined
Draft2Digital does not accept content generated entirely by AI without extensive human editing, and prohibits AI-produced nonfiction from authors without credentials in the subject. It supports AI-assisted work, watches for high-volume low-quality “book spam”, and encourages transparency because the stores it distributes to apply their own rules.
How you disclose
No form of its own; be prepared to meet each downstream store's requirement.
How it's enforced
Account monitoring for book spam; rejection of wholly AI-generated content.
With PrizimOne set of records — provenance, receipts, report — lets you answer every downstream store the same way.
Audiobooks submitted directly through ACX must be narrated by a human; text-to-speech and AI-generated recordings are not accepted. Audible sells AI-narrated titles only through its own programs. This concerns the recording, not the text — but authors planning an audiobook should know the rule before they choose a narrator.
How you disclose
Not applicable to the manuscript; narration must be human for ACX.
How it's enforced
Rejection of TTS or AI-narrated audio submitted independently.
With PrizimOut of Prizim's scope today; noted so that your publishing plan has no surprises.
A voluntary mark for books whose text was created by humans, allowing only a de minimis amount of AI (spelling and grammar checks, indices). Since May 2026 the definition no longer names brainstorming or outlining among the permitted uses. Open to all U.S. authors; non-members pay a small per-title fee.
With PrizimThis bar is stricter than any store's. If you intend to apply, Prizim's records let you judge honestly whether AI-suggested edits in your process exceed de minimis — and show reviewers exactly what was yours.
Human authorship is required for protection. Purely AI-generated text cannot be registered; a work that includes AI material can be, provided the human contribution is sufficient and the AI-generated portions are disclosed and disclaimed in the application. Using AI for research or preliminary outlines does not affect copyrightability, but prompting alone does not make you the author of the output.
With PrizimWriting Receipts and the provenance ledger are the kind of contemporaneous evidence of human authorship the Office's guidance anticipates.
The Authors Guild's model clauses treat AI rights as separate subsidiary rights: no training on your work, and written approval before AI narration or translation. Agents and publishers increasingly ask authors to warrant how AI was used in a manuscript.
With PrizimWhen a contract asks you to warrant your process, you will have a record of it rather than a recollection.
On prose suggestions the AI draft is a read-only reference. There is no Accept, no copy button, and a near-copy typed into your note is flagged rather than counted. What goes to print is what you wrote.
Mechanical fixes stay mechanical
Typos, register, formatting and continuity corrections can be accepted as written — the same editing a copyeditor performs, and squarely AI-assisted by every store's definition.
A ledger, not a promise
Every decision carries a provenance tag. The Authorship Report lists, passage by passage, what you wrote, what was a mechanical fix and what you kept — ready for any disclosure form.
Receipts for your own writing
Each note keeps a private, keystroke-level Writing Receipt chained with a running hash. Replay it, export it, and show how the passage came to be.
This page summarizes publicly posted policies for authors' convenience. It is not legal advice, and platform rules change. Before you publish, read the current guidance on the platform itself; disclosures remain your responsibility, and Prizim gives you the records to make them confidently.