Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be? In early 2026, the owner of James Payne, Books and Prints, based in Brooklyn, began receiving order ...

The leaves on the trees are changing, shifting from deep shades of emerald to vibrant reds and golds. A light rain dusts the ...

Bookseller Scott Brown says AI scanning has destroyed tens of millions of books and it’s taking a toll on booksellers.

Ever since a lawsuit in summer 2025 outed Anthropic for destroying millions of print books to train its AI models, book lovers have moved to defend some of the most precious collections from what ...

The AI industry, not content with alienating top creators, seems to be intent on alienating book lovers too. That much is clear in the wake of a 404 Media report on ISBNdb, a company that tracks book ...

When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking. Major ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its façade adorned with eight striking gothic columns. But ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. But Amazon isn’t the only place to get ebooks, and the Kindle format isn’t the only one your e-reader can read. Whether you read for fun, to learn ...

Sept 15 (Reuters) - (This September 15 story has been corrected to clarify that 78-rpm records are not vinyl, in the headline and paragraph 1.) Sign up here. The labels and the Internet Archive said ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...