Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them ...

"They just want the content as a bunch of words strung together." The post Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI ...

Amazon is buying used books, scanning them to train its AI systems and then destroying them, according to a 404 Media investigation published Monday. 404 Media worked with an anonymous bookseller by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon recently launched Your Books, described as a "personalized space" to explore print, Kindle, and Audible books, get recommendations based on reading tastes, and learn about personal reading ...