Morning Coffee — 31 February 2016

Here are ten stories to read this morning.

1. AI bookworms seek to predict human behaviour (The Stack)
2. ‘Child-friendly’ search engine Kiddle is promoting ignorance (TNW)
3. The collective insanity of the publishing industry (Gene Doucette)
4. Hachette Agrees to Buy Perseus Publishing Business (PW)
5. How Digital Reading Won Me Some Peace and Quiet! (OZY)
6. Judge In Different Apple Case Says That All Writs Act Doesn’t Mean Apple Needs To Help Feds Break Into Phone (Techdirt)
7. Kindle e-book Giveaways now at Amazon (#AmazonGiveaways for #ebooks) (chrismcmullen)
8. On the Personalities of Dead Authors (Google Research Blog)
9. Walking back the assumptions that were the basis of the last post (The Shatzkin Files, The Passive Voice)
10. A Warning About Writing Novels That Ride the News Cycle (Jane Friedman)

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