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".