Amazon won't ban your book for using AI—disclosure required

Amazon enforces transparency standards, not AI prohibition. Quality matters more than tool origin.

This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Tue, Aug 25 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 59/100 (Tailwinds building).

Coral Wire selects stories by a Claude-graded relevance score and writes each headline and one-line summary with an Anthropic Claude model from the linked source. Story gathering is not AI: it is a fixed set of feeds and dockets. The linked original is always the authority.

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