Morning Coffee – 24 August 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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August 24, 2026

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

Nathan Bransford published a great deep dive on how not to get scammed.
It turns out Amazon is one of several tech companies which is scanning and destroying books to feed them to its AI.
Cameron Pugh delves into the issues surrounding AI use by authors.
Ricci Wolman explains how authors can add images and other examples of what Amazon calls “A+ Content+ to their book listings on Amazon.

P.S. I’m going to be at The Muse Writing Conference this coming weekend; say hello if you see me.

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