As long as the AI devouring a book isn't making it harder for a person to get access to a copy of the book. There might not be many copies of some out-of-print books.
Would be nice to at least force them to open their scanned books data, after all they stole everything else, they can contribute some back
"Open" it how, exactly? Make it available for free? As in violate copyright?
Perhaps Anna's Archive will be the last bastion of some books, especially if they manage to acquire the internal collections of some of the AI companies, à la Spotify. (ie. the parts of the collections that didn't come from Anna in the first place.)
And what, potentially make things easier for a competitor? Not in capitalism sir