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Japanese used bookstores
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- 1Japanese used bookstores boom as bulk buyers snap up books for AI scanning●Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton
Used bookstores across Japan are reporting a roughly fivefold surge in sales as buyers purchase books by the ton. One single order of about 50 tons was shipped to the United States, and numerous suspicious bulk purchases are thought to end up at overseas facilities where books are scanned to train AI systems and then destroyed.
- 2Japan Ships 50 Tons of Used Books to U.S. Buyers●Bulk Orders Surge at Used Bookstores in Japan; 50 Tons Sent to U.S.
Used bookstores in Japan are reporting a surge in bulk orders, with around 50 tons of books shipped to customers in the United States. The trade highlights growing overseas demand for Japanese secondhand books, though the report gives few details on who is buying or why volumes have risen so sharply.