Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

• New York Magazine thinks non-fiction publishers aren’t remotely for AI, but the simple truth is they were already asleep at the wheel for years before this (many publishers think fact-checking is the author’s job). (paywalled, but Instapaper bypasses it)
• The Oxford University Press blog looks at the “l” in both, as well as other quirks of regional pronunciation.
• Coincidentally, one of those pronunciation quirks persists today in the word “colonel”. The reason it is pronounced “kernel” is because of a British habit of replacing an “l” sound in the middle of words with an “r” sound. (I learned this thanks to season six of Downton Abbey, and the word “almoner”.)
• Spotify told its investors on 21 May that audiobook use was up 60% year over year.
• Kobo is now integrated with Storygraph, a Goodreads competitor.
• Sera Gamble explains how to use your hatred for bad art to become a better writer.

P.S. If you’re going to Stokercon in Pittsburgh later this week, be sure to stop by my table and say hello.

P.P.S. Do I know any SF fans in or near Louisville? I have a spare ticket to Imaginarium, the SF con in July.