Monday Morning Coffee – 20 October 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.

Morning Coffee

October 20, 2025

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

  • Harshini Fernando explains why authors need a website.
  • Penny Sansevieri has the scoop on authors being locked out of Amazon Author Central.  BTW, does the image on that post look AI-generated to you?
  • If you are looking for an alternative to the now-defunct NaNoWriMo, Reedsy has a few suggestions.
  • A new lawsuit has been filed against Salesforce over using pirated books to train its LLM. (PDF)
  • A Texas school district has closed its middle school libraries.

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2 Comments

  1. Robin Phillips
    Robin Phillips on October 20, 2025 at 9:08 am

    Yes, I think the image on Penny Sansevieri’s post is AI-generated. I didn’t notice at first, but there are four fingers clearly visible on his left hand, plus the end of an extra finger sticking out of his hair.

    Then I opened the image in a new tab to have a closer look. The image file name is a bit of a giveaway: ChatGPT-Image-Oct-6-2025-11_10_57-AM.webp

    🙂

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    • Nate Hoffelder
      Nate Hoffelder on October 20, 2025 at 9:10 am

      I am embarrassed to say I didn’t think to check the file name, LOL. Thanks!

      Reply

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