Monday Morning Coffee – 2 February 2026

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 2, 2026

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

- Kate McKean explores what to do if publishers aren’t buying your genre (or more specifically, your story/characters) anymore.
- Victoria Strauss shares two new scams targeting authors.
- Libro.fm now offers an annual subscription.
- Anne R Allen has ten tips which will help save you from falling victim to scammers.
- Harshini Fernando walsk us through the KDP dashboard.

P.S. Sorry for the missed update last week; we had a pretty severe winter storm on Sunday, and I let myself get distracted watching the weather.

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