Monday Morning Coffee – 6 November 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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November 6, 2023

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

Amazon just announced an invite-only beta for computer-generated audiobooks.
It turns out that many of the copyrighted works fed into LLMs were stored almost verbatim.
Here’s why Writer Beware doesn’t recommend agents or publishers.
The Bookseller takes a look at BookTok.
Goodreads takes a position against review-bombing, but isn’t really doing much to stop a problem which has been around for a decade or more.

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