Morning Coffee – 24 February 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.

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Morning Coffee

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February 24, 2025

Here are a few stories to read this morning.

Bookvault is now offering boxed sets of POD books.
Victoria Strauss takes us down a rabbit hole of cheap and worthless book promotion sites.
Changes in the 18th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style include support for the singular they. I congratulate CMS for catching up with 18th-century novelists like Jane Austen, and with common English usage.
Jonathan Bailey takes a look at the current state of AI writing detectors.

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