Episode 439 blends market commentary with reader-development strategy, including concerns about low-quality AI flooding categories and making discovery harder. The hosts emphasize practical audience work - entry-point clarity, catalog guidance, and reader-facing tools - as a defensive and growth strategy.
The key point is that discoverability is now a product problem as much as a metadata problem. Authors who make it easier for readers to pick the right first book may outperform louder catalogs that still rely on broad storefront visibility alone.
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