Morning Coffee – 18 November 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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November 18, 2024

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

Nathan Bransford wants to know whether you write chronologically or whether you bounce around from one part of a work to another.
Written Word media released their annual author survey a few weeks ago.
Here’s an interesting copyright case where a guy who was successfully sued in Canada for pirating a Canadian legal code (they’re under copyright in Canada) is currently winning a similar case here in the USA (where legal codes can’t be copyrighted).
Someone is impersonating the Writer beware blog, and we don’t know why.
Bowker released their annual reports on ISBNs registered in the USA.
HarperCollins is pressuring authors is pressuring authors to sign over their books so they can be fed to the AI spam machines.

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