Morning Coffee – 19 September 2022

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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September 19, 2022

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

Did you know there’s a search engine for weird old books?
A new (basic) Kindle was announced this week. Also, Amazon upgraded the Paperwhite to 16GB storage.
Slate is taking the Internet Archive’s side in the lawsuit filed over the IA’s pirate site, The Open L:ibrary.
Bookfunnel now offers watermarked ebook downloads, and via their app, an option to let people read your book without downloading it.
Mike Shatzkin has a great overview of Open Road’s automated ebook marketing platform.
Karis Rogerson points out why authors need beta readers.
It turns out that what makes legal docs hard to read is not obscure concepts but bad writing.

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