Monday Morning Coffee – 13 May 2024

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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May 13, 2024

Here are a few stories to read this morning.

Nvidia is being sued over the pirated books it used to train its AI.
A romance author finds out the hard way why you should always have control of your backups.
A Denver book festival has been given the title of “Fyre Festival of Books”.
Some NFT con men tried to create a new project using public domain images, and promising that the new owners of an NFT would own the IP. (they didn’t have the rights to the IP, but that didn’t stop them from selling it)
I have a few tips on how to choose colors for your author website.
Here are 3 misconceptions about book marketing.

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