Sellers Puzzled by Bulk Orders Suspect Secondhand Books Being Destroyed to Train AI The recent surge in secondhand book sales has left many independent booksellers perplexed.
What was once a niche business, cherished by bibliophiles and collectors, has suddenly become a booming industry with scores of novels being shipped off to far off warehouses.
At the heart of this story is a 2025 court ruling in the US that effectively gave AI firms carte blanche to use purchased books for training their software.