Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?0

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• August 15, 2026

The court documents relating to the Anthropic case revealed the project of ingesting old books was referred to in internal company communications as “Project Panama.” The documents indicated the company’s aim was to “destructively scan all the books in the world”. Destructive scanning is the process of shipping books to locations where they can be