by Nate Hoffelder | Nov 29, 2021 | Morning Coffee
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Jeffrey Wassetrom argues that assigning historical fiction along side history books (aka sanctioned historical fiction) can help fill in the gaps in the historical record. Grammarly, a startup with an AI editor so...
by Nate Hoffelder | Nov 22, 2021 | Morning Coffee
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Writers are lucky that they don’t have to deal with copyright as it affects music, where you can own the govt-granted monopoly rights to a song but not the rights to the recording of said song. Rachel Thompson...
by Nate Hoffelder | Nov 15, 2021 | Morning Coffee
Here are a few stores to read this Monday morning. Spotify is buying Findaway. (I had thought Kobo/Rakuten would buy them, actually.) In related news. Storytel just bought audiobooks.com. Draft2Digital’s Universal Book Links now includes print books. Amazon has...
by Nate Hoffelder | Nov 7, 2021 | Morning Coffee
Here are a few stories to read this Sunday morning. (I am posting early, and with good reason.) The hot story this week will be Apple adding an explicit content label to some romance books. Given Apple’s history, this has the potential to be a disaster....
by Nate Hoffelder | Nov 1, 2021 | Morning Coffee
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Not all fictional characters are protected under US copyright law. Are yours? Here are seven social media tips for authors. The ebook library management tool Calibre turned 15 years old on 31 October. I have been...
by Nate Hoffelder | Oct 25, 2021 | Morning Coffee
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. This post on inheriting copyrights wildly understates the complications. Famed Spanish thriller author Carmen Mola has been revealed to be a fraud perpetrated by three male Spanish screenwriters. It’s not just...
