Monday Morning Coffee – 15 December 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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December 15, 2025

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

Amazon now lets you publish ebooks in Persian, Hebrew, and Latin.
eReader smartphone cases are an idea whose time has come and gone a decade ago, and now its time has come again.
Smashwords is simplifying its royalties.
Amazon’s new “ask This Book” Gen-AI powered Kindle feature raises rights concerns.
Starting about a month from now, Kindle users will be able to download PDFs and Epub as well as Kindle ebooks.

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