Monday Morning Coffee -2 January 2023

by Nate Hoffelder

After a decade of running The Digital Reader, Nate is a veteran web publisher with experience in design, maintenance, recovery, and troubleshooting. What little he doesn't know, he can learn.

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January 2, 2023

Here are a few stories to read this first Monday in 2023.

The Guardian delves into why the first of January 2023 is an especially important day in the annals of US copyright.
On a related note, here’s a list of works that entered the public domain today.
The NY Times has an interesting poll and article on words you’re not supposed to use any more.
Rolling Stone asks what is the future of BookTok?
This post on why you should hire someone to lay out your ebooks overlooks a number of high quality free tools such as Draft2Digitial’s free ebook converter.

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