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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A survey by AI detector Originality.ai of 2,034 paperback religion books for sale on Amazon found that the majority were likely written by AI, including around three-quarters of titles on Hinduism, ...

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

404 Media put an Apple AirTag in a rare book and tracked it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where a team cuts the bindings off books and scans the pages. The reporting method has roots in a ...

Amazon Books editorial director Sarah Gelman discusses some of the most hotly anticipated books of the fall. Amazon Books ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...