Morning Coffee – 2 June 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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June 2, 2025

Here are a few stories to read this morning.

Amazon has added a new accessibility feature section to KDP.
After 5 centuries, it appears use of the semicolon is on the decline.
The Chicago Sun Times explains how it come to publish a summer reading list consisting mostly of titles hallucinated by AI.
New Jersey has passed a library ebook pricing bill.
Starting in July, the money the UK pays to authors when their books are lent by public libraries will be calculated based on data from all public libraries in the UK.
The NYTimes announced a deal to license its content for use by Amazon’s plagiarism machine.

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