Monday Morning Coffee – 4 May 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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May 4, 2026

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

Amazon has dropped support for 14 year old (and older) kindles.
Questions are being raised whether a non-verbal autistic author actually wrote the book bearing his name. (the article is paywalled, try Instapaper)
Here are some tips which can help you figure out why your reader magnet is not converting.
Amazon has changed the royalty model for ACX. (Publisher’s Weekly, ACX help pages)
The American Library Association of the 11 most banned books from 2025.
Following in the footsteps of bad ideas like ebook apps, ebooks with audio/video, and Google’s Editions at Play, the startup Character.AI is turning public domain titles into interactive text games.

P.S. If you are at Thrillerfest in NYC this week, stop by my table and say hello.

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