Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. Documents made public in a lawsuit from authors against Anthropic earlier this year revealed the company had bought millions of ...

Amazon is buying tons of rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning them for AI training, according to 404 Media, which placed a tracking device in a rare book that ultimately arrived at an ...

Like a scene out of the classic dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451," some AI companies aren't just reading books—they're destroying them. As developers race to build more powerful AI models, and lawsuits ...

What we know so far: A market built for libraries and booksellers is now feeding AI training, as companies seek large volumes of printed books that predate the generative AI boom. ISBNdb, which says ...

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Digital books have grown in popularity over the past decade, but more Americans still read books in print than in digital formats. Overall, 75% of U.S. adults say they have read all or part of at ...

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Books-A-Million has kept a low profile ever since the Anderson family bought back control of the Birmingham, Ala.–based bookstore chain in 2015, after a brief period when it was a publicly traded ...

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