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Amazon may launch a marketplace where publishers can sell their content directly to AI companies.

If this happens, it’s a big shift.

For years now, AI companies scraped the open web. Publishers sued. Traffic dropped. Everyone complained….

This flips the model:

• Content becomes a licensed asset class

• AI training data becomes priced infrastructure

• AWS could become the broker of the AI content economy

The real question isn’t “will this help publishers?”

It’s:

Are we about to see the financialization of the internet’s knowledge layer?

Because if usage-based AI licensing becomes standard, ads and subscriptions might not be the primary revenue model anymore!

Feels like a new start to the content market as we know.