Monday Morning Coffee – 8 July 2024

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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Morning Coffee

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July 8, 2024

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

Michael Castleman penned an interesting history of book printing in Great Britain and the USA.
I mostly disagree with the phrases that Nathan Bransford thinks you should delete from your stories. These phrases might seem extraneous but they also help with pacing.
Facebook’s AI is incorrectly identifying photos as being AI-generated.
Australian bookseller Booktopia has filed for bankruptcy.
Amazon is working on a competitor to ChatGPT.

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