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 using it on and off since mid-2007, back when it was still called libPRS500.
• If this article is accurate, Scribd has expanded from cheating subscribers to also cheating authors.  (I am frankly not surprised.) EDIT: Writer Beware got a look at the contracts in question. They are that bad. 
• A bunch of YA authors got together and tried to exploit their fans using NFTs. Fortunately this project died before it even got started. 
• This author thinks she has invented Facebook and Goodreads. (No one tell her about Wattpad.)
• Computer-generated audiobooks have returned under a new buzzword banner (in this case, yes, AI is a buzzword). Let’s hope the quality is better than previous attempts.