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Monday Morning Coffee ? 14 March 2022
by Nate Hoffelder
14 Mar 2022 at 5:23am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Sarah Nicolas asks whether Goodreads is a good thing. The Economist has a really good article on the value of teaching grammar. Here’s a really good set of best practices for working with a book editor. The founder and CEO of Comixology has been transferred […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 7 March 2022
by Nate Hoffelder
7 Mar 2022 at 5:06am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. If you use the Author Pro theme on your website, you’re going to want to replace it now that it has been discontinued. Here are your options. Amazon is closing just about all of its stores except for Whole Foods – this includes the bookstores! […]
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Studiopress?s Author Pro Theme has been Discontinued ? Here?s what you should...
by Nate Hoffelder
3 Mar 2022 at 3:38pm
I have been hearing from several author friends that their website theme, Author Pro, is no longer working right. The theme has been abandoned by its developer, and it’s started developing formatting and other problems. Author Pro was a fairly popular theme, and I know a lot of authors who used it on their website. […]
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Subscription Box Review: Scribbler v ScribeDelivery v The Write Notebook
by Nate Hoffelder
3 Mar 2022 at 11:21am
If you want to give a gift to the writer in your life you might want to consider getting a subscription to a monthly subscription box service. A subscription box is the term given to the recurring delivery of niche products. Around 2,000 companies offer a subscription box of one kind or another, each focused […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 28 February 2022
by Nate Hoffelder
28 Feb 2022 at 4:45am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. I hope I never get as famous as Edgar Allen Poe and have literary historians obsessing over why I never had kids. Does your print book infringe on the font copyright? Here’s a list of tools you can use to pump up your blog posts. […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 21 February 2022
by Nate Hoffelder
21 Feb 2022 at 4:18am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The judge issued a preliminary injunction in the Maryland ebook licensing case in favor of publishers. Next stop, appeals court. A few months back I warned you that the print supply issues was creating a surge in navel gazing about books which basically recycled decade […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 14 February 2022
by Nate Hoffelder
14 Feb 2022 at 5:07am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. There’s paperwork for a new Nook on the FCC website. There’s also a new Fire tablet at the FCC. Draft2Digital is merging with buying Smashwords. (there are a lot of insiders who think this was a terrible move on the part of D2D – we […]
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New Nook eReader Shows Up at the FCC
by Nate Hoffelder
13 Feb 2022 at 5:06am
What appears to be a new Nook ereader showed up on the FCC website on Wednesday. All the important info has been embargoed until August, but I can tell you that I found paperwork for a device with the FCC ID XHH-BNRV1000-A. It is described as an ereader, and has both Bluetooth and Wifi. That is […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 7 February 2022
by Nate Hoffelder
7 Feb 2022 at 3:47pm
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The AAP reports that the legacy publishing industry ebook revenues fell almost 5% in the US in 2021. This is being misreported as representing the market and or the entire industry, and not just the subset of the book publishing industry which sends revenue data […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 31 January 2022
by Nate Hoffelder
31 Jan 2022 at 5:18am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The US Copyright Office is the best place to start learning about the topic. How to tell if your inner critic is losing it. Slate examines when prize-winning books do not age well. Two cookbooks are lost at sea. Illinois and Rhode Island aren’t waiting […]
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