Morning Coffee – 17 March 2025

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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March 17, 2025

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

April 3rd will be the first annual We Need Diverse Books Day.
It turns out that AI is just as bad at being a search engine as it is at, well, every non-specialized function?
The vanity press scammers calling themselves Author Solutions have been sold to a venture capital firm.
Book Designer Seb Lester may have been the last person to work with JD Salinger before his death.
Spotify is now publishing audiobooks.
Speaking of audiobooks, I think you should be careful when publishing audiobooks generated by AI. While I do support the idea in principle, I know a couple authors who pulled their AI-generated audiobooks because the quality was lacking. The tech simply isn’t there yet.

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