{
  "id": 1555414,
  "title": "Amazon Is Buying Up Older Books and Destroying Them After Scanning. The Orders Go Back to 2024",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/amazon-is-buying-up-older-books-and-destroying-them-after-scanning",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-17T20:05:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Inc.",
    "slug": "inc",
    "url": "https://www.inc.com/georgia-fearn/amazon-buying-up-older-books-destroying-after-scanning-back-to-2024/91392000"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An AirTag traced a roughly 1,000-book order to an Amazon scanning operation. Inc. found unusual shipments were reaching the same Las Vegas warehouse back in 2024.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}