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Book Riot - The Podcast
07/03/23
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Jeff and Rebecca talk Obama declaring once and for all (?) that he does read the books he says he does. Also, a discussion of the realities of author finances along with structural problems with Goodreads.
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Discussed in this episode:
First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack.
How to Lose a Third of a Million Dollars Without Really Trying
How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published
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Discussed in this episode:
First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack.
Despite Book Bans, LGBTQ+ Fiction Sales Soar
Amazon’s Best Books of the Year (So Far)
Black Women Are Being Erased in Book Publishing
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•56m
Jeff and Rebecca talk about #booktwitter, do a little "book of the year" talk, wonder about how all-in Oprah is on THE COVENANT OF WATER, novelists suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, whether TikTok is really going to do this publishing thing in a serious way, and much more.
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Discussed in this episode:
First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack.
ByteDance prepares to launch publishing operation
Authors sue OpenAI for unlawfully “ingesting” their books
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