Monday Morning Coffee – 22 September 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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Morning Coffee

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September 22, 2025

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

Bookbaby has several examples of book marketing that worked.
Kobo now supports exporting annotations.
Trump filed a frivolous lawsuit against Penguin RandomHouse and the NYTimes this week. The lawsuit was thrown out days later.
Johann Christian Bach’s 1777 lawsuit against sheet music publishers marked the first time that music was covered by copyright under English law.
Victoria Strauss shares more details about new AI marketing scams targeting authors.

P.S. This week find me driving down to Atlanta for the Moonlight and Magnolias conference. Next week I will be flying to texas for DFWCon.

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