Tracking devices in book shipments reportedly led to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas emblazoned with a book-hungry dinosaur.

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 ...

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Amazon Books editors know what you should read this summer. Around the halfway point every year, the Amazon Books editorial team of six gathers in Seattle to read, argue and craft the "Best Books of ...

A 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas where workers cut spines off books to scan them ...

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 ...

When it comes to reading taste, sometimes we have to agree to disagree. Your favorite book may be a measly one-star review to someone else. But now and then, a story becomes so universally beloved it ...

The Amazon Book Club is shutting down on March 1st, 2026. This was a system that allowed readers to join public groups by genre and receive monthly book recommendations. Many of the leading members of ...