🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're
One. One copy of of every book. (Per company, but still, it’s a narrow field.)
They’re not seeking out antique dusty tomes for a king’s ransom. They’re checking off ISBNs for anything that got published. That’s usually only rare when nobody bought copies because nobody cared. Anything older than Steamboat Willie is on Project Gutenberg, free for the taking.
And I remind anyone still cross - if you’re against them just using torrents, this is what you’re asking for. This is the completely above-board alternative, done in a sensible manner.
One. One copy of of every book. (Per company, but still, it’s a narrow field.)
They’re not seeking out antique dusty tomes for a king’s ransom. They’re checking off ISBNs for anything that got published. That’s usually only rare when nobody bought copies because nobody cared. Anything older than Steamboat Willie is on Project Gutenberg, free for the taking.
And I remind anyone still cross - if you’re against them just using torrents, this is what you’re asking for. This is the completely above-board alternative, done in a sensible manner.