Canadian company Zoom Books is buying out of print books in bulk from used bookstores all over the world to scrape them for LLM training. Multiple bookstores in Spain recently flagged unusual orders, writes Demócrata. One store, Fènix in Badalona, noted that orders focused on “Catalan non-fiction titles that had been stored for years and had practically no commercial outlet.” Demócrata notes that “stores in Germany, the USA, New Zealand, and Australia have received similar orders, some of more than a thousand books, many out of print.” Zoom Books writes on its website that it buys used books and accepts […]
