Shop for book recommendations at Amazon? Its tar pit of robo-knockoffs is right around every bend of the webpage. The AI robots are having their way.

Robo-books, which do not violate copyright, are swamping genuine books. This is about whether any boat of a book is a blow-up toy — or something real, with a keel and a rudder for balance and a helm.

Encouraging the reuse of content, simply by not protecting authors, is something a publisher would never do.