The Digital Reader

Here are a few stories to read this morning.

• Did Amazon Change Algorithms to Protect Their Readers?: The Ten Thousand Gatekeepers of KDP Select (Failure Ahoy!)
• Former Copyright Registers: We Must Limit Fair Use At Public Universities, For The Poor Publishers Who Are Paying Us (Techdirt)
• Is “Discoverability” Even A Problem? (brett sandusky)
• Love in Amish Country (Paris Review)
• ‘Naked Girls Reading’ Fall Foul of D.C. Licensing Laws (LitReactor)
• Pulse News Reader Dips Its Toes Into Social With New “Highlights” Feature (TechCrunch)
• Teachers might hate him, but advertisers think he’s got a good face (MobyLives)
• Why Japanese readers don’t like e-books (Fortune Tech)
• Who’s going to capture the social news reader market? Thirst throws its hat in the ring (GigaOm)