Monday Morning Coffee – 5 September 2022

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 5, 2022

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

BBC looks into co-op fees that publishers pay to bookstore chains.
Did you know the Oakland Public Library has a display dedicated to the things patrons left in library books?
Those nonsensical obscenity lawsuits here in Virginia have been thrown out.
In spite of court rulings saying that the USPTO is wrong on this, it still doesn’t give a fuck that people want to trademark that word.
Here are five reasons to use KDP pre-orders.

P.S. This Monday finds me volunteering on the virtual side of Chicon 8, the 80th Worldcon. Over the past few months I also built the websites for future Worldcons (Glasgow 2024 and Seattle 2025).

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