Monday Morning Coffee – 27 February 2023

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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February 27, 2023

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

Maryland’s library ebook licensing law may have been struck down, but that hasn’t stopped other states from debating related laws which use different legal arguments.
Check out these 8 buildings that have been turned into libraries and bookstores.
Longreads has curated a reading list on the neuroscience of reading.
Bookshop.org will start selling ebooks later this year. https://buff.ly/3y9gI6N
The USA Copyright Office has ruled that part of a graphic novel which used AI generated images is still copyrightable – just not the images.
Clarkesworld Magazine has had to close submissions because they’re being spammed with AI-generated stories.
AI-generated books are also flooding Amazon.

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