In early 2026, the owner of James Payne, Books and Prints, based in Brooklyn, began receiving order requests that he later described as “brazen and bizarre.” The books themselves were strange—a ...

In August 2026, a claim circulated online that tech giant Amazon was acquiring large quantities of books, some of them rare, and cutting off the spines to more efficiently scan the pages for ...

A worker speaking anonymously has described a Las Vegas Amazon operation where books are allegedly taken apart, scanned page by page, and then thrown away for artificial intelligence training.

James Payne was stumped. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based rare-book seller saw orders surge earlier this year for titles that even he considered to be obscure. By unloading volumes like “Home Long-Term Oxygen ...

More than a dozen public interest and consumer advocacy groups are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate leading artificial intelligence developers for allegedly buying, scanning and ...

Decades after becoming the internet's first major bookseller, Amazon is now buying rare books to scan and destroy them. It joins the likes of Google and Anthropic, which have reportedly been buying up ...

Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos speaks at an event unveiling the new Amazon Kindle 2.0 at the Morgan Library & Museum February 9, 2009 in New York City. Mario Tama/Getty Images Amazon once ...

Amazon is reportedly cutting the spines off old books and scanning the pages at a Las Vegas facility, presumably to train AI models on text that exists almost nowhere else. The company won’t confirm ...

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AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Not too many years ago, before the dawn of Kindles, used bookstores were a refuge for budget-minded, voracious readers. As the industry evolved, many suffered. Now they’re seeing a resurgence in sales ...

For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as ...