Los Angeles Indie Book Crawl delivers crowds, Christmas-sized sales

Book lovers did not crawl, they sprinted to the 13 participating bookstores for the inaugural event: Studio City’s ...

The Vanishing Page: AI Firms Scan Then Destroy Rare Book Editions

AI companies are bulk-buying rare and out-of-print books, scanning them, then destroying the originals for training data.
The Edwardsville Intelligencer

St. Andrew’s book fair returns Aug. 7-8 with more than 20,000 books

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church will have its quarterly book fair Aug. 7-8 at 406 Hillsboro Ave., Edwardsville. The sale will feature more than 20,000 used books in a range of genres, as well as DVDs, ...
Futurism

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're ...
KQED

There’s a Zillion Things to See at the SF Art Book Fair

The SF Art Book Fair can be a little overwhelming. Books, zines, stickers and prints blanket folding tables as far as the eye ...
Daily Jefferson County Union

Grown-up Book Fair sees nearly 2,000 attendees

The Grown-up Book Fair was a hit this weekend in Fort Atkinson. "We ended the weekend with about 2,000 attendees," said Elena ...