"In a typical week, Stuart Manley, from Barter Books, in Northumberland, would sell two or three thousand books. But one recent single bulk order from a Canadian company equalled what he would expect to move in seven days."
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"But the suspicion is that they are not being bought for avid overseas readers but instead something else with a voracious appetite for new information: AI."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o