The Dark Side of Secondhand Book Sales: A Boom with a Troubling Cost The recent surge in secondhand book sales has left many in the industry perplexed.
Independent booksellers, such as Stuart Manley from Barter Books in Northumberland, have reported unusually large orders from distant warehouses, leaving them to wonder about the ultimate fate of these volumes.
The suspicion is that they are being purchased not for reading pleasure, but to feed the voracious appetite of artificial intelligence.