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qqbooks ◴[05 Sep 25 22:15 UTC] No.45144291[source]▶

So if a startup wants to buy book PDFs legally to use for AI purposes, any suggestions on how to do that?

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1. JackSlateur ◴[05 Sep 25 23:55 UTC] No.45145105[source]▶

Reach the publishers or resellers (like amazon for instance)

Give them this order : "I want to buy all your books as epub"

Pay and fetch the stuff

That's all

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2. comex ◴[06 Sep 25 02:07 UTC] No.45145957[source]▶

For e-books, there will usually be a license agreement that prohibits any kind of nonstandard use.

That's why Anthropic had to scan physical books.

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors