An American Library Association report says efforts to restrict books accelerated last year. The number of individual titles challenged in school and public libraries rose by 65% over the prior year.

Authors say that the proliferation of AI-generated books can lead customers into buying the wrong book on Amazon and that these books can harm authors' sales numbers and reputations.

Amazon will no longer sell books that frame transgender and other sexual identities as mental illnesses. (REUTERS/Mike Segar) Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.