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Morning Coffee – 2 December 2024

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Here are 21 ways authors can use lead magnets to grow their subscriber list. Elizabeth Spann Craig has advice on how to eliminate crutch words from your writing. Robert J Sawyer is right in that AI is destroying what little value Google still has. There’s […] The post Morning Coffee –...
Morning Coffee – 25 November 2024

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Anil Dash has a great argument why you shouldn’t have your newsletter on Substack: They’ll use your newsletter to cross-promote Nazis. (Also, Substack’s cross-promotion is incredibly annoying – it’s basically spamming your subscribers.) The Authors Guild breaks down the HarperCollins AI license deal. A new […] The post Morning Coffee –...
Morning Coffee – 18 November 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 […] The post Morning Coffee –...
Monday Morning Coffee – 11 November 2024

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Last month Wired published an article on how to keep your data from being used to train AI. A Simon & Schuster subsidiary in the Netherlands is going to experiment with AI-translated books. This is going to end badly. AI translation has been around for […] The post Monday Morning Coffee...
Monday Morning Coffee – 4 November 2024

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Amazon is shutting down Kindle Vella in February. If you want to block the bots that feed AI plagiarism machines, Neil Clarke has just updated his block list. (Let me know if you want me to take care of this for you.) Nathan Bransford wants […] The post Monday Morning Coffee...
Morning Coffee – 28 October 2024

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. If the IBPA and PubWest merger goes through, the USA will finally have a worthwhile national trade group for the book publishing industry. (I think the AAP rests on its laurels too much, yes.) It looks like we are about to have another cycle of […] The post Morning Coffee –...

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