Monday Morning Coffee – 24 November 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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November 24, 2025

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

Cloudflare list a piracy case in Japan over pirate manga sites it was hosting.
Victoria Strauss reports on 3 publishers who are currently failing to pay royalties (scam or failing businesses, your guess is as good as mine).
The Guardian reports on the rise of AI scams targeting authors.
Here are scans of an old book listing ways people died in London in the 1500s.

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