{
  "id": 4818707,
  "title": "Used bookstores navigate 'suspicious' bulk orders amid AI book-shredding fears",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/used-bookstores-navigate-suspicious-bulk-orders-amid-ai-book-4818707",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-01T08:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC Canada",
    "slug": "cbc-canada",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-book-stores-bulk-orders-ai-training-9.7311882"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Used booksellers in Canada are navigating how to handle mysterious bulk orders, as suspicions grow that companies are buying up their old books so they can be scanned for AI training — and then trashed.",
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      {
        "outlet": "CBC News",
        "title": "Used bookstores navigate 'suspicious' bulk orders amid AI book-shredding fears",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/used-bookstores-navigate-suspicious-bulk-orders-amid-ai-book",
        "published": "2026-09-01T08:00:00.000Z"
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  "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."
}