Morning Coffee – 29 June 2020

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

• If you’ve ever wondered about the origins of -ston, -shire, and -chester, Rich Hollick has a fascinating post on the English place names.
• The EFF is coming to the legal defense of the IA’s pirate site, The Open Library.  (statement)
• Designers are distressed at reports that Waterstones is now shelving books back cover out. (This is done so that people can read the blurb without picking up the book.)
• Mark Coker shared his predictions about the post-pandemic future of publishing. 
• File this under news no one expected: College students continue to spend less on curricula. 
• B&N is cutting staff at corporate, including firing the book buyers who used to have more power in the book industry than Jeff Bezos. 
• The Conan Doyle “estate” maintained their reputations this week as copyright trolls when they sued Netflix for giving Sherlock Holmes “too many emotions”.