Morning Coffee – 15 June 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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June 15, 2026

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

Amazon’s AI-powered “Story So Far” feature is now rolling out to Kindles.
I just got a scam email that claimed PBS Books loved my work and wanted to promote them, so now is probably a good time to re-share this old post on spotting phishing emails.
In case you didn’t know the economy was bad, a recent survey by The Authors Guild shows that only 25% of readers bought a new book in the past month.
BookFunnel has released a plugin for Woocommerce, giving you another option for selling ebooks from a Wordpess website.
Amazon will now auto-translate your ebook in KDP to Portuguese.
Harshini Fernando explains the various reasons why your KDP account may get banned. Is that list complete? What have you heard from other authors?

P.S. This Monday finds me driving to St Louis to attend the Western Writers of America convention.

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