This Dutch bookseller thought a request for 3,000 copies was ‘spam or phishing.’ Instead, AI companies are scanning and destroying books to train AI

Fortune•Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 07:00 AM•2 min read

"I was shocked! " Pieter de Vries of Haarlem told Fortune. He said several other Dutch antiquarian booksellers received the same request.

Source: [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/dutch-bookseller-ai-spam-phishing-3000-book-copies-scan-destroy/)

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