This Publishers Weekly article from Jan. goes into more detail. It's not that they are TRYING to sell our work for training, it's that those companies are placing orders with booksellers and distributors. Most sellers aren't giving us the option Ingram is. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Ingram Lets Publishers Opt Out of Book Sales to Tech FirmsIn a note sent last week to client publishers, Ingram Content Group warned of the “growing trend” of AI companies purchasing and scanning print books to train their large language models, and said pub...www.publishersweekly.com