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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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Standard pallets hold 800–1,200 books; buyers scale from pilot orders to 10,000+ volumes per batch, with destructive scanners ...

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Book manufacturing giant Lakeside Book Company has acquired Baker & Taylor Publisher Services, the distribution arm of the soon-to-be closed library wholesaler Baker & Taylor. The distributor had been ...

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Books sit on the shelves at a school where U.S. soldiers teach English to Djiboutian students March 9, 2018, in Obock, Djibouti. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Senior Airman Erin Piazza) Children's ...

"Culpability" by Bruce Holsinger (out now from Spiegel & Grau) is the July pick for Oprah’s Book Club, and the mogul is already dubbing it "the book of the summer." This is Winfrey's 116th book club ...

On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company ...

It was sometime during my master’s program that I started writing in books. The year was 2018, and I spent my weeks running between my first media job and the dark, yellowy basement in Jamaica, Queens ...