Monday Morning Coffee – 27 April 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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April 27, 2026

After a two-week absence, here are a few stories to read this morning.

Draft2Digital is now going to charge an account setup fee, and a maintenance fee on low revenue accounts. (Given the number of unprofitable accounts they took on from Smashwords, I am surprised it took them this long.)
Barnes & Noble announced policy changes for their self-pub unit, including a new limit of 100 titles per account, no public domain titles, and a minimum retail price for print books.
Ugh, Amazon is now offering to automatically translate your ebooks from English to German.
Jonathan Bailey explains why he added an AI disclosure to his website.
A British author turned down a $175,000 prize because of the media commitments.
BookFunnel now supports media file downloads.

P.S. Do I know anyone who has gone to or is otherwise involved in Readercon?

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