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New Report Finds Self-Published Books Now Outnumber Traditional Titles as AI and TikTok Reshape the Book Business
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (386+ words) selfpublishing.com’s data shows self-publishing has grown from a niche hobby to a multi-billion-dollar force touching consumers, tech and commerce alike. AUSTIN, TX, UNITED STATES, September 9, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Publishing sits at the intersection of culture, technology, commerce and education. With…...
OPINION: Amazon's Vegas book guillotine is what peak AI looks like
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (792+ words) At an industrial facility on Nicco Way, on the northeast edge of the Las Vegas Valley, workers manually feed books into machines that slice off their bindings. A worker inserts a book, presses a button and watches as a blade…...
What Happens To Books When AI Does The Reading For Us
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (294+ words) Are We Still Reading If AI Reads The Book For Us (Picture Credit - iStock) It sounds enormously useful. It also raises a question publishing has barely begun to answer: if AI increasingly mediates our relationship with books, what exactly are…...
The many ways to destroy a book
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (231+ words) The targeting of books is as old as the book itself. Books have been censored, banned, torn, burnt, and pulverised to suppress opposing views, enforce state ideologies, silence uncomfortable truths, or for being deemed heretical. Why are these two different…...
Why AI companies need to destroy rare books in particular
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (217+ words) We’ve been writing about AI companies buying rare books and destroying them in order to keep feeding more information to the AI chatbots. We learned a new word for it too, destructive scanning. At the The Guardian, last month, Kathryn…...
Canadian Bestselling Author Buys Her Publisher - Betting on a New Model for Independent Publishing in the Age of AI
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (357+ words) Sep 08, 2026, 09:17 ET ID Quotient acquires Arc & Edge as Sarah Baldeo expands a selective publishing platform for STEM, neuroscience and expert-led nonfiction. TORONTO, Sept. 8, 2026 /CNW/ -- Canadian bestselling author and serial entrepreneur Sarah Baldeo is taking the unusual step from author to…...
Amazon’s LAS8 facility reportedly cuts book bindings for AI scanning
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (809+ words) An AirTag-tracked shipment reached Amazon’s LAS8 facility, where VGT3 reportedly cuts bindings for scanning. Here’s what is known and unknown. The broader story also includes a separate reported order of 5,000 books described by bookseller Tomás Kenny. That order is not the same…...
AI Religious Books??? 63% on Amazon May Be Written by AI??? Hindu Press International
5+ day, 49+ min ago (247+ words) AI Religious Books — 63% on Amazon May Be Written by AI – Hindu Press International hinduismtoday.com Hindu Press International (HPI) is a news aggregator service for Hindus and non-Hindus alike. HPI primarily publishes news from around the world related to the…...
The pros and cons of destructive book scanning by AI firms | Hindustan Times Mumbai - newspaper - Read this story on Magzter.com
1+ week, 1+ day ago (329+ words) The Artificial Intelligence (AI) race has a new victim — second-hand books. Over the past summer, reports have emerged of AI developers around the world purchasing vast quantities of used books. Once acquired, these volumes are destructively scanned: Their bindings are…...
The pros and cons of destructive book scanning by AI firms
1+ week, 1+ day ago (559+ words) | Hindustan Times Hindustan Times The Artificial Intelligence (AI) race has a new victim â second-hand books Over the past summer, reports have emerged of AI developers around the world purchasing vast quantities of used books Once acquired, these volumes are…...