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Book Riot - The Podcast

08/21/23

51m

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Kelly Jensen joins Rebecca to discuss a bummer-fest of book banning news, some truly absurd behavior in Texas, and Jay-Z's partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library.

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Wanna escape the Dog Days of summer with purrfect book recommendations? Let Tailored Book Recommendations pick awesome books to keep you entertained. Touch grass, grab some lemonade, and enjoy TBR's picks.

Discussed in this Episode:

EveryLibrary and Book Riot Partner on Survey About Parent Perceptions of Public Libraries

Iowa School District Using ChatGPT to Identify Titles to Be Removed from Libraries

Anti-LGBTQ Texas School Board Member Caught Illegally Entering School Library

Kansas Newspaper Illegally Raided by Police

Jay-Z Partners with Brooklyn Public Library

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Rebecca and Vanessa talk about a trio of AI-related publishing shenanigans, the private equity firm that bought Simon & Schuster, and a cringey moment for the hockey romance community.

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Paramount agrees to sell S & S to private equity firm KKR

AI-generated travel books are the latest Amazon scam

Author fights Amazon to have AI books listed under name removed

AI fiction analytics site Prosecraft shut down after author backlash

This hockey romance BookTok stuff is wild

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Jeff and Rebecca are out this week, wrapping up the last bits of summer vacation, so we are dropping Jeff's recent interview on First Edition with Josh Cook into the feed.

On the occasion of his new book, The Art of Libromancy: Selling Books and Reading Books in the 21st Century, Josh Cook of Porter Square books joins Jeff for a conversation about modern indie bookselling.

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Wanna escape the Dog Days of summer with purrfect book recommendations? Let Tailored Book Recommendations pick awesome books to keep you entertained. Touch grass, grab some lemonade, and enjoy TBR's picks.

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