Millions of Books Shredded to Feed AI. Here’s Why It Matters
In a Houston warehouse this spring, a family bookseller noticed something strange: sales suddenly doubled, then tripled. The orders came from the same buyer, and the titles were old, obscure, and mostly published before 2022. Across the country, an Ohio bookseller saw the same pattern. The answer, booksellers would learn, was not a wave of … Continued