GoKawiilBulk buyers ship tons of Japanese used books to US for AI scanning, reports NTV
NTV Japan reports a sharp surge in used book sales, with some stores seeing orders multiply fivefold and hundreds of books sold per day through online marketplaces. Buyers reportedly route large shipments to a logistics center in Okayama Prefecture, including one 50-ton consignment sent to the US, which NTV links to Anthropic's book-scanning process, and one bookstore says a foreign company emailed inquiring about tens of thousands of books.