Monday Morning Coffee – 2 December 2019

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

Ten-digit ISBNs are being phased out.
An old fuddy-duddy is shutting down The Society for the Protection of the Apostrophe he launched two decades ago.
A textbook subscription service raised $9 million in its Series A round.
Clive James passed away last Sunday. Here’s his humorous poem "The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered".
Canadians aren’t any happier about library ebook restrictions than Americans.
Scribd closed another capital round, raising $58 million.
Daunt won’t be making any radical changes to B&N before the holidays.
The (London) Times Literary Supplement has a history of the UK’s 40-year-old PLR (a system where select authors are paid when their ebooks are loaned in public libraries). Fun fact: most authors earn hardly anything under this kind of system due to funding limitations.