Foreign companies have approached Kyobo, Yes24 and others seeking one copy of each title, raising concerns among Korean publishers and booksellers that the firms intend to use them to train AI.

Published October 15, 2026 - 7:01 a.m. Modified October 15, 2026 - 8:45 a.m.

Kyobo Book Centre has received unusual bulk orders for as many as 100,000 Korean-language books — any title, as long as each one is different — in what it suspects may be an effort to acquire material for AI training, according to the bookstore chain on Wednesday.

Exclusive reporting by the JoongAng Ilbo found that it has received such inquiries since early this year from companies based overseas that wanted to purchase Korean-language books in bulk.

“Most of the inquiries came from U.S. companies,” a Kyobo source told the JoongAng Ilbo. “About 10 companies have contacted us so far.”

The companies that reached out did not ask for particular books or even particular genres. Instead, they wanted about 100,000 different titles, with just one copy of each.

“The transactions differed from ordinary purchases because the buyers appeared to be trying to secure as many different titles as possible,” the representative said. “Overseas bookstores in the United States, Europe and Vietnam that purchase Korean books generally provide a book list and explain the purpose of the purchase.”

A similar pattern emerged in August when an Arizona-based company in the United States approached book retailer Yes24’s used-book business and book store Seoul Book Bogo about buying large quantities of secondhand books.

The potential buyer told JoongAng Ilbo that it was seeking books in a number of categories, excluding children's titles.

The Arizona-based company said it was buying one copy of each title and that the number of different titles mattered more than the total number of books purchased. The company also contacted Kyobo about a possible purchase.

AI training does not require multiple copies of the same title.

Kyobo said it asked the prospective buyers to identify the final recipients of the books.

The companies reportedly replied by saying the information of the final recipient is confidential and cannot be disclosed.

The companies also declined to explain the purpose of the purchases. Some denied that the books were intended for AI training but some said the final recipient was a data-related company.

Kyobo ultimately ended the talks.

“We determined that we could not rule out the possibility that the books would be used for AI training,” Kyobo official said. “Considering the potential risks such transactions could pose to Korean publishers, bookstores and the broader book distribution industry, we informed the companies that we could not proceed unless the final recipient and intended use of the books were confirmed.”

The book retailer called for systematic support.

“Publishers and distributors need to share information and establish guidelines for responding to purchases [suspected of being intended for AI training],” Kyobo Book Centre said.

The practice is not limited to used books.

AI companies overseas have also purchased newly published books. Nippon Shuppan Hanbai, a major Japanese book distributor commonly known as Nippan, sold new Japanese-language books to U.S. AI company Anthropic for a year beginning in December 2024, according to the Japan Book Publishers Association.

A U.S. court ruling finalized in July last year also established that Anthropic had used new books, as well as used ones, for AI training.

The publishing industry has begun moving more quickly as cases emerge of suspicious purchases involving both new and used books.

The Korean Publishers Association discussed possible responses at a board meeting on Tuesday.

The association decided to send official letters to regular bookstores, used book shops and distributors to survey the extent of such transactions. Participants also proposed forming a working-level consultative body with other publishing organizations.

The association also plans to join other publishing groups in issuing a joint statement in support of the “Frankfurt Appeal.” The appeal is an open letter signed by publishers and booksellers and was unveiled at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany on Oct. 6.

The letter criticizes the use of published works to train AI without authors’ consent and calls on AI companies to disclose which works were used.

I don't know how to word this, so bear with me. Recently my pinterest feed has figured out that I've read The Catcher in the Rye before and is now giving me stuff related it to it. But I realize how beloved that red-orange carousel horse is from the cover -- d'y'know what I'm referring to? -- and can serve as symbol for the book. As in, you can paste a sticker of that horse on your laptop or get a tattoo of it and someone who knows the book can identify its association with The Catcher in the Rye.

I guess I'm just wondering what other books have an image associated to it from its cover because, in my opinion, it's a nice thing. I wish every book cover was so intentional and unique and thoughtful about the story that it blankets that you could get a tattoo of some element from it and fellow readers would understand the book you're referring to. Now that I've thought about this, I wonder why I don't see it often, if at all.

The only other example I can think of from the top of my head is that little figurine from Catch-22.

This might be an incredibly stupid post and also just a me-thing that no one else relates to. But I'm just curious. I wonder what you guys have to say about this.

Personally, I've only read 12, but a lot of the others are on my TBR. Lots of lesser-known titles on this list, though.

A lot of the biggest horror books (like Stephen King's) are from the 80s and 90s.

Is anyone else reading this series, by chance? I currently reading Days of Shattered Faith, which is book 3-of-6. I am a bit of an escapist, especially lately, so I have been reading a lot more of the fantasy genre and I am really enjoying the world this author has created! If you are a fan of unique universes, political intrigue, and complex characters, this may be a series you would also enjoy!

I am not giving any spoilers so I am being intentionally vague, but I love it when an author makes a unique setting and creatures that I have never read anywhere else. The threads Adrian has run through all of the books that seemed separate from one book to the next are now beginning to come together and I can't wait to see the while picture! He has taken his place at the top of my favorite authors list with Tad Williams!

Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir

Picked this up because Mary Robinette Kowal posted about it on Bluesky. And she was the translator, so let's give it a shot. 

This is an odd little crime/horror novella (?) with 150 pages, relatively little dialogue and a lot of inner monologue by Unnur. To borrow from my family, Unnur ain't quite right. She's very clamped down, solitary with a heavy focus on her work in marketing and her boyfriend, Joi. He's married by the way and no, the wife doesn't know. 

Into this life comes a cat. At this point, the backmatter will fill you in. 

The Weight is an interesting character study of Unnur who is very self sufficient, solitary and isolated.  These aren't bad things, but something happened to her father when she was a kid and isn't talking to her mother and brother. We never do learn what it was exactly, other than he disappeared. 

The cat has an owner, Ásta, and she and Unnur develop a relationship. No, not that kind of relationship. Get your mind out of the gutter, but between two lonely women who really need friends. 

The story moves along at a quick clip and we see Unnur dealing with the day-to-day micro-aggressions and sexism women have to put up with. By the time things reach crisis point, well, I was rooting for her.

Yes, this is appropriately marketed as horror. There is a pragmatic way of dealing with a problem that my farmer grandparents would have appreciated. And my mother, the murder mystery fan, would be amused by it.

It's also a book about female rage. Right there with Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby.

I liked it. I think I'll seek out Knútsdóttir's other book in English.

I started mostly reading fantasy since January 2025, due largely to IRL reasons. A lot of these also are parts of series, which lowers the mental load of what to check out next and the amount of time I have to spend getting invested in new characters. Among this kick, I've stumbled upon three western novels in 2026: Red Country by Joe Abercrombie, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty, and Cibola Burns by James SA Corey.

Red Country is the sixth novel in Abercrombie's The First Law universe. It's more or less a standalone, introducing new characters and folding in some old ones. The Circle of the World in TFL is a fictional world, but Red Country takes us to the western edge of its borders and we pit an industrializing force of settlers on the frontier against indigenous horse-people. It's about revenge, lawlessness, rescue, redemption, and the darkness that lies in the human soul. Like No Country for Old Men, one of the characters is vicious enough to feel like a manifestation of evil, and that character's actions call for a reevaluation of the preceding books in Abercrombie's series.

The primary viewpoint characters are new, and while Shy isn't particularly notable, Temple - the lawyer who can't commit to a career - is wonderfully funny, one of the characters with the most genuine heart of the series. Humor is always a staple of The First Law, though in this book it tends to center mostly around Temple. Red Country might be my least favorite entry in this series, and maybe because its setting and cast felt detached from what I normally care about, but it's still a great read. "What's that you're always telling me again?" says Shy in Chapter 1, and from there, the hype begins.

Lonesome Dove is a big-time Reddit favorite, including on r/TheFirstLaw - it apparently greatly inspired Abercrombie. I had previously tried reading it a few years back and quickly gave up. This time, with someone in my life recommending it after recently having read it, I committed to it over the time I had an e-copy from my library.

The first thing to note about Lonesome Dove is that it, too, is very funny. The bulk of the plot follows an extremely ambitious cattle drive, but while there are some thrilling sequences among the journey, the charm of the book lies less in the action and more in the simple way the characters think and interact and get skewered by the narrative. Badass retired Texas Ranger, Captain Augustus McCrae, is bested and bothered by the fact that a cook they pick up off the street does better at cooking than he does. Gus is the hero of the story, and yet he's petty toward the cook. The town prostitute Lorena refers to "carrots" and "poking" as euphemisms for the tools of her trade. The ace tracker Deets is full of bizarre superstitions. Two little pigs follow the narrative with their cleverness, and it's important to note that they are not for rent. My favorite character/subplot is the hapless deputy Roscoe, who is beset upon by his sheriff's domineering sister-in-law and seduced (used?) by an extremely unlikely farmer woman who needs a pair of hands for labor and a man as a companion. The book does not limit itself to the firm POV structure of more modern books; like Austen or Dostoyevsky, we often get to hear directly the thoughts of how one character interprets another.

It may be something of a cliche to say that the best known example of a genre already contain the deconstruction of it. I don't know enough about the Western genre to say what conventions this 1980s novel deconstructs. But the narrative is very deliberately set in a time when the most romantic era (by some accounts) has already passed. You could easily call this book No Country for Old Men - Gus and his fellow Ranger, Woodrow Call, are decades past their prime, even if it doesn't stop their antics or ability to kick ass. They see themselves as the last of a great generation - and the narrative agrees. Young military officers or evil young Indians can't stand against them. Their greatest Mexican foe died off screen before the story even begins. The buffalo make periodic appearances, sometimes pursued by their hunters, but everyone knows they're on their way to extinction. Gus bemoans that when the USA "tamed" the Indians and Mexicans and outlaws, they got rid of all the interesting people. He's able to shoot up a bar he used to frequent to gain some respect, but shortly after he says that he and Call will be the next to join those outlaws. The whole reason for the cattle drive appears to be Call's attempt to feel alive again. The two are also dogged by the women of their past - Clara, who refused to be bound by Gus's philandering, and Maggie, whose love Call could not bear to accept.

The book never fully loses its humor, but it becomes much grimmer along the way. Characters suffer harm and death, and gradually the narrative becomes bleaker and bleaker as we start to realize what the book wants to say about humanity and the frontier. The romantic era of the West is definitively over - as we learn on something of an oasis of a farm, the future is in ranching, trading horses to the military, living in mud houses. Romantic love remains unrequited. Death comes for us, and the best of us go in the most ignominious of ways. The most seemingly moral of us can have no backbone when it comes to those we love most. The innocent cannot forgive a failure with good intentions. And anything you cling onto for sentiment - a sign, a wife, a child - breaks apart, dies, slips away. It's a consuming book that's almost perfectly designed to give you a book hangover. And yet it's simple and it's beautiful and you love it, because you have to love something for it to be able to hurt you like Lonesome Dove does.

Which leads me to Cibola Burns, Book 4 of The Expanse. This is another series that is often recommended to fans of epic fantasy with great characters and long-lived story arcs. Honestly, I don't think it's really on that truly epic level in terms of writing, but each book being self-contained and the series being complete does a lot of work for it - I'm listening to it on audiobook in conjunction with the books I read, and it's easy to keep pace.

Book 4 shifts the genre of the series to Space Western, which the never-overly-subtle narration points out a few times. Jim Holden, our returning character, represents a sheriff who's appointed by the outside to moderate the frontier, full of settlers and corporate goons. This is my favorite book of The Expanse so far, shrinking the scope to a single planet and bringing back some familiar faces to become our new POVs. We deal with natural disasters and alien technologies and malicious local biology, but - like most books in the series - the real enemy is how humans can be the biggest assholes to one another. This time we've got a "just following orders" POV, following the orders of a classic, dead-eyed sociopath who just needed the right legal excuse to exercise his rights. To me, the zoomed-in approach, the tenuous peace, and the escalation were more compelling than the solar-system-spanning earlier installments.

The Expanse tends to be the most openly philosophical at times of these three books. This time, the theme of the episode is that violence precedes society, and that the frontier precedes the law - it's just how it is. But even with this rather grim outlook on civilization, it is by far the least cynical of the three books listed above. The good guys won't always win in real life, but they always make a difference and they always try their hardest, and even when they make things worse, they show that we can do better. Being an audiobook and lighter in feel, it was a simple palate cleanser for me. (I've also heard that the series gets even better soon, so I'm very excited to proceed!)

Not a ton tying these reviews together, just wanted to note somewhere that it's kinda cool I wound up reading more westerns than I expected this year!

Something that has been bothering me was the lack of discussion on the topic of Wells' (and frankly, other authors) views of eugenics. While there was an evolution of his racist ideas through his meeting with civil rights activists, the same can't be said for his views on eugenics which remained somewhat consistent throughout his life. The idea that we could sterilize the failures (this time, consenting!) is a deeply ableist mindset.

Ironically, CotB goes against this. Now, I last read it several years ago when I was 15 so it might not be completely accurate, but my reading of CotB was about the arrogance of able-bodied people in assuming that they're abilities some how make them more superior to disabled people. And, also, that what is considered a "disability" is relative to the culture. The people of the valley had adapted methods to navigate, had made the valley more accessible. Contrast that with the main character who couldn't keep up yet thought he could rule over these people due to his sight.

Eugenics boils down "disability" as purely a genetic failure when accessibility drastically imrpoves the quality of life for disability. But who wants to actually spend money on HELPING people amirite?

I find it strange that a guy who had such vile views could write something that was honestly progressive for its time.

However, I can't say this 100% would persuade eugenicists because they'd think this only applies to physical disabilities, not mental. Hell, even Hellen motherfriggin Keller was into eugenics on the belief of euthanizing mentally disabled babies. There isn't a lot of solidarity within the disabled community, but thats a topic for another time.

EDIT: Wow the amount of people in the comments who took this post as a go ahead of justifying eugenics is crazy. I wanted to talk about how a eugenicist accidentally wrote a book proving eugenics wrong. This is a damn literature sub not an ethics sub.

Yeah different time blah blah but we know the ramificationns of eugenics and Wells certainly didnt stop believing in the negative side of it

This is a nice book about a normal guy who shaves his beard to surprise his wife and his side chick.

But when he does, both him and you will start losing your minds

and questioning reality about what is actually going on.

Who is acting and who is not?

Who is on your side, and who is against you?

Is everything against you? Are you crazy? Or are you going to get them? How will you get them?

I recommend reading this short book with the background music of "Saw 1 Hour."

The end is....

So recently enjoyed another of the juvenile SF novels from Lester Del Rey, and this one's from the 1960s. This, is 1963's "Outpost of Jupiter".

After Bob Wilson's father suddenly becomes ill they become stranded on the small human colony on Jupiter's moon of Ganymeade, he gives up any plans to go to college and instead joins with the colonists in the brutal struggle of the moon's environment.

He becomes exhilirated with the challenges, the comradeship, and the spectacle of Jupiter filling the sky. All going way beyond his expectations. An it also included his investigations into a major mystery a strange globe that is hidden in the hills, and appears to be trying to communicate with the colony itself.

But before he could even find the answer he's looking for the colony has been struck and crippled by a plague. And the angry and frightened colonists are accusing him of being the carrier.

Another pretty good SF adventure that also doubles as a first contact story also. Lester here also tackles the favorite subject of planetary colonies with quite a bit of realism, for the time at leas. I love how fast and snappy this kind of books and even though I'm older, I find these incredibly enjoyable!

Haven't yet gotten to some of Del Rey's short story collections as of now, but I'll probably intend to find me some copies sometime. But this will be the last Del Rey novel for a while as I'm moving on into some horror right now, since it's October and all! Oh, and a quick addendum; still have to check out those Heinlein juveniles!

I can’t believe no one has posted about this book, especially since it has such a juicy controversy attached to it. I’m rather psyched to share this book!

I found out about Sanora Babb when I heard about the controversy between her and John Steinbeck. I don’t want to get into that here, so if you’re interested you can Google it. I’d rather focus on this amazing story and an author I believe should be more widely known.

Those Whose Names are Unknown was written in the 1930s and takes place in both the Oklahoma Panhandle right after the Great Depression and during the American Dust Bowl, and in California — I guess you can intuit the Steinbeck connection. Though it was written and set to be published in 1939, because of the success of Grapes of Wrath, Random House decided to shelve Babb’s book. It didn’t see the light of day till 2004 when Oklahoma University Press published it.

Those Whose Names are Unknown is broken up in two parts. Part one takes place in the Oklahoma Panhandle and recounts the lives of a small community of Crop Farmers as they deal with the aftermath of the Great Depression and what has been called the greatest ecological disaster in American history: The American Dust Bowl. In part two, we follow some of these characters to California as they pack up to look for work in farms throughout the large farming valleys.

Babb’s narration style and prose are beautifully direct, putting the reader in the front seat of a story that shows the inherent issues with capitalism, societal prejudice, and class divide; while still highlighting simple human kindness and the will to keep going when faced with blow after blow. I had a hard time reading this book at times, I had to put it down from time to time when it became too much. I really wish I had the words to do this book justice. My experience reading this book was one that I’ve never experienced from reading. The connection I had with this book I accredit to Babb’s ability to present her characters in a way that I could slip into their shoes and fully empathize. Like many timeless classics, the issues presented here are still extremely resonant today: the greed of corporations putting profit above human need; the tyranny of merit justifying the social economical divide; prejudice and fear enabling the othering of humans in need. There is a very strong socialist/anti-capitalist thread running throughout this book.

I’ll end here, and I just hope I’ve piqued the interest of new readers, because I do believe this book is an important read. I do believe many will connect with this book on many levels.

I so badly wanted to like this book, but I find Wally lambs writing so juvenile and boring. It’s a lot of “and then this, and then this, and then this” with no prose or flow or atmosphere. Also, Corby is such a knob it’s hard to even like him. This guy killed your child and landed in jail, and he pretty much has no deep reflections to offer the reader? He’s just going through the days at jail telling us about his surroundings and jail mates. I want to hear what you’ve learned here, how you feel. He turned down alcohol and all he can say is “I don’t know why I did it 🤷”. Also… dude, you killed your little baby, you’re expecting waaaay too much grace for yourself. “Wahhh Emily doesn’t visit me enough or bring Maisie” lol dude you are lucky she is even talking to you 🤦🏻‍♀️

Oh, and this made me put it down and decide to DNF:

Emily: husband just killed her baby and is in prison, is looking after her other baby without husband while working full time and still manages to visit husband in jail

Corby: hmm I wonder if she’ll find my beard sexy like she did when we were younger

Anyone else DNF this one? Or am I totally off base here 😂

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So when I purchased this, I had expected to read a book following a woman who is now thrown into the wolves and is forced to make hard choices in order to survive and while in a sense we do get that. It falls short for me in the lack of time we really spend with the characters.

The issue I’ve had is that the book essentially speed runs Sunja (the main character) life, that we don’t really get to know her as a person. The only thing we’re given is how Sunja put into terrible scenarios and how she handles it. But do we know if she’s funny? If she’s quick-tempered, I sure don’t know anything other than she’s resilient which is great but where’s the meat of her character. How does her relationships with the other characters develop? Just by time lapse?

We don’t even get to see how characters handle the aftermath of said scenarios, we’re just thrusted a year or two or maybe three later in the timeline, to deal with the next scenario. Then we’re mainly following other characters now and it’s like well damn, what happened to Sunja?

There was a moment where I teared up in the book and I do relate to some of the struggles that Sunja’s family goes through, so with anyone who’s an immigrant or is a first generation immigrant, you may like this. But for me, i wasn’t able to connect to the characters.

A good bulk of my reading catalogue for the past few years has been non-fiction writing around game development. I love books like Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier and Masters of Doom by David Kushner because of how they explore the turmoil and triumph of people who pour everything into their craft. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin thusly was a delicious proposition of a book for me. A fictionalised documentary on the life and times of two rockstar game devs covering 30 years of their messy personal histories? It was an easy sell before I started, but by the time I had finished the final chapter, I was amazed by the sheer breadth of what this book goes for.

TTT sees estranged childhood friends Sam and Sadie reconnecting in college to make video games together. Gaming is a central point in the story, from the artistry behind how games are made, to their importance in comforting the downtrodden. Zevin writes so competently about them that the biographical elements of the book are a huge draw on their own. So often, I read a book or watch a movie where games are spoken about like the writer has only ever experienced them third hand. Here, you can really tell the author did their homework to try and speak about the making and playing of games in a way that feels true to what they mean to people in real life.

The other recurring theme here is about the value of relationships. Whether it’s parental or platonic, we see how love is absolutely transformative in our lives, how it sustains us and gives us the ability to push past both daily defeats and great tragedies. Of particular focus is the friendship between the two leads. Even if their chemistry may not be electric in their dialogue, the love language of the creative process they share is at times hypnotic to read, and can feel more palpable than a lot of love stories put to paper. The constant push and pull of their dynamic can be frustrating at times, but I was quite touched by how Zevin opted to navigate the messiness of a guy-girl best friendship.

These were just the most immediately obvious points of discussion, but as mentioned up top, it is hard to capture how much ground is covered here. Everything ranging from disability, mixed identities, misogyny across a number of industries, grief, endemic violence in America, and so much more become topics of discussion. All of this is portrayed through non-linear storytelling and incredibly varied structures in the prose that meant that every chapter was bringing something new and interesting to the table.

While I was certainly never bored, I wasn’t always blown away by some of the writing decisions. Many people are going to bounce off of this book because the constant lack of or poor communication between Sam and Sadie can come across as downright melodramatic at times. While I was satisfied how things are left with them, I can imagine many others will be left annoyed and disappointed with how their friendship didn’t mature with the pace it should have. Some of the supporting cast also suffers in the writing in a similar fashion, lacking some interiority to the point of feeling like caricatures. The most distracting thing for me has to be plot threads that get introduced that never get proper pay-off or come to unsatisfactory conclusions.

The book implies that Sam’s inflating ego is going to have a destructive effect on his work and life, but it only ever drives a wedge between him and Sadie. The woman in question also has an abortion that gets two pages of writing before disappearing from the plot and feels like it was only there to give yet another reason for her and Sam to fight

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow does so much and I think it does a lot of it well. It is a love letter to people who make games and the people who play them. It is a fascinating exploration of what compels us to do the things we do and how the people around us drive us to action. In this great scope, so much hinges on how much you can buy into the relationship between Sam and Sadie. For some, it’ll be a slam dunk and for others, it’ll be a bit of a let down. I personally recommend you give it a try either way.

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