Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of suspicious bulk buys thought to end up in foreign AI scan and shred facilities
www.tomshardware.com
Short-term boom could lead to a longer-term drought and removal of important works from circulation.
  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Used media stores are one of the things that makes Japan the best dang place on earth for lovers and collectors of dying and forgotten physical media. Never anywhere else on earth have I encountered stores like theirs, where so many old gems have been stored with such care for decades, typically in pristine condition, and highly affordable.

    I could literally fucking riot over this.