{"id":594103,"date":"2026-08-15T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594103\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:52:11","slug":"secondhand-book-sales-are-booming-is-it-because-of-ai-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594103\/","title":{"rendered":"Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI? &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFBrU2JHa1hKSExGUmE2LXhpY2VuZWpLNnhpZGhNVUd6d3RrSzRPQTRaWWM3UG14c1VEY2xZUWZGTEt5cTZlUWZiRVJPV05xSlMxNWpzcnlmamVFQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwAFBVV95cUxNS0R0TUMyYkJxVXpBUGUyM2ROVFIwRmNkQnNrblEweHZHekpaODBXNXplNFAwSlZ2ZXVCTWNldnRPYk9tbU9uaHJJdW9zSUt4S2pMNnFSeW1qZUVFVnIyM3BCdVRIeTRFdGFtSjhReGQ3OHFKbnRoT0FiRkY3aDZGWUg3aWhqa0tEVzBDckJDdktFaG9yX201azFBLW9oa1IzQXA3OEV5bXhoZzByREotNnBrbFBTcU1LT3ViV1hUVlo?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms behind \u2018strange\u2019 bulk orders<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi3gFBVV95cUxQVGNXWFdPcHlMNDJuOEhYNVVjNmtUREg5NmU1UzFqakgyVGc4aGVZMU50MmNMRWVIaEU3ZlJMdmw5VmJJVkItaEg5aldrQWVkSW5uTkVUb1A5VW96SGtpMWRCdXN5eHUtOHZNWnB5elNjNFBaWEVvSURuTDZzUTFnMnRxeE8wNlN1QWZlVmhQTy0xSVhENE1WbHRmcUUzS3R6SVJrNEZEeTlaZTRUWnBLeHgyVU9vNFctdWNnVjdOSmNEMi1MVDNRLWZwb1dINE5JcTFqU1QxVVNuZ3lQMFE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Liz Carolan: Why are AI firms bulk buying and pulping books? Because it\u2019s cheaper than paying writers<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMifkFVX3lxTFBNYUpkeWRiRHhWMkczR3llWWxiMlcxa3Qyci1kRGFBcGo2VmwwMXpNZkxIYWp6UkQ0ajJyM3R2WWZ2UXN1aGJTOXhsVDRXWFVtTXJBVEFaVlgwSEJRU3dsX2VneURSQTFmVG1SUmVISV81YUF4NFE5OEkzUmo5dw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lise Hand: AI companies destroying books to feed the machines? What fresh hell&#8230;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMidkFVX3lxTFA5RlJnTG5DNWR4eUM0ZHljMFhoZlVITjRYWUZPVWpoOVg0Z1lZUmx4TThUajEyeUlqRWVvRUppRXNWWFdqUG1wTE9oVDV6dVpTaHZFYV9KYVdjc0wzeGFkNl9naWtleWdnbXM5TldiRkl3aFV1blE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Galway bookseller suspects &#8216;scattergun&#8217; order is for AI<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCSecondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-594103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}