A Tale as Old as the Medici
Book Riot - The Podcast
02/20/23
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the end of the HarperCollins strike, possible homes for Simon & Schuster, a real mess at Indigo, recent reading, and more.
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DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
HarperCollins & union reach tentative agreement
Simon & Schuster is back on the market
Catapult shuttering online magazine & writing classes to focus on publishing program
Indigo experiencing some sort of online sales meltdown:
The Half-Known World by Pico Iyer
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
Reading the Glass by Eliot Rappaport
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Previous Episode
Riding on a High of Wanting to Be Different
February 13, 2023
•55m
Jeff And Rebecca cover a range of interesting listener emails, catch up with publishing pay raises, look back at 10 years of data from the YA category of New York Times Bestsellers, and discuss some recent reading.
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DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Site shoutouts: What 10 years of NYT YA bestseller lists reveal about YA
Jenn took a look at what’s happening in publishing right now
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
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Next Episode
Buttering the Bricks [Updated]
February 27, 2023
•61m
Book Riot managing editor Vanessa Diaz joins Jeff to talk about the officially-ratified HarperCollins contract, ChatGPT and ebook “authorship,” bookstore rewards programs, cleaning up Roald Dahl, and more.
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DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Book Riot’s new email newsletter, The Deep Dive
Roald Dahl updated to have more inclusive language, and it’s a whole Thing
Barnes & Noble’s new membership program
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
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