It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use while huge corporations try to sue the Internet Archive out of business.

This 404 report justly been getting considerable coverage. Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquired by an AI company for training…