Category: Morning Coffee

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. When “Lord of the Flies” happened for real, the result was almost peaceful.  Someone’s building a database of book-buying habits...Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The newly launched Publishers Weakly activist Twitter account was interviewed this week. A survey conducted at the Edinburgh book festival...Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. MS Word now flags two spaces after a full stop as an error.  The Washington Post takes a look at...Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. LitHub has published a gallery of rather odd anthropomorphized books.  Brian Frye believes that creators wanting to be paid for...Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Publishers need to plan for how the pandemic is driving digital adoption, Mark Williams argues.  Russel Nohelty launched an online...Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The first 5 stories are all on the same topic (the Internet Archive’s recent acts of piracy), so I have...Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The Guardian reports book sales surge as everyone stays home.  The astronomer Johannes Kepler may have invented SF.  Wired reminds...Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. A few weeks back Macmillan proposed new contract terms for libraries. The ALA’s position is that the existing terms are...Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Plagiarized spam ebooks dominate the Kindle Store listings for Coronavirus, but not Amazon’s competitors.  Romance authors write 3,000 words a...Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Donna Ferguson explains how she raised a bookworm. Oh, cool: Google Assistant on Android can read web pages to you....Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Book publishing is an industry that that cannot (or will not) pay its employees a living wage, nor its authors....Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Did you know there’s a segment of the industry that still needs to be told that ebooks are real books...Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Victoria Strauss explains why paying to have your book displayed at a book fair is a waste of money.  Someone...Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Kristin Lamb explores how companies no longer need to kowtow to Amazon in order to sell their products online. How...Continue reading

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. David Gaughran questions the value of going viral.  Salinger tried to secretly publish a book in 1996, but he didn’t...Continue reading