Rare Books Traced to Amazon AI Training Facility to Be Scanned and Destroyed

The notable detail is the physical pipeline: books are bought, stripped, scanned, then destroyed, which turns a copyright dispute into a question about irreversibility. If the practice is widespread, it affects authors, publishers and rare-book sellers whose inventory is being consumed rather than resold. The open question is whether scanning-for-training becomes a documented sourcing norm, and how rights holders respond when the source material no longer exists to inspect.