#254: Killing Goliath with the Tipping Point

Book Riot - The Podcast

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🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk season 2 of Annotated, the difficulty of doing personalized book recommendations at scale, the on-going concern about Amazon buy buttons, The New York Times coverage of #metoo in publishing, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: The Vestigial Heart by Carme Torras Instaread Links discussed in this episode: Annotated Season 2! NYT covers publishing’s response to sexual harassment Follow-up: Publishers urged to monitor Amazon buy buttons New Barnes & Noble app intended to make finding your next read less overwhelming See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If just thinking about your bills makes you feel confused and disorientated,
0:05.0	like your head is full of Raspberry,
0:08.0	then you need Monzo.
0:10.0	Download your new favorite bank and pay bills from custom pots.
0:15.0	Money never felt like Monzo.
0:18.0	UK residents, T news and talk show about what's new, cool and
0:29.0	worth talking about in the books of reading, and the world of books reading even, not just in the books and reading, the books and reading. This episode 254
0:37.1	recording on Thursday, March 29, 2018, I'm Jeff L'Neill. I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky
0:41.7	and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.
0:45.0	From the books in reading.
0:47.0	See I can't get away with anything these days.
0:50.0	No mistakes.
0:52.0	You know when the opening read goes sideways,
0:55.3	it's going to be an interesting one.
0:56.9	But we're a little, both a little bit sideways today.
0:59.7	The spring break here, there's stuff going on.
1:02.1	We're, we're, organic annotated mention.
1:04.6	We were just recording annotated yesterday.
1:06.5	We're working on a thing, Rebecca's work on in script.
1:08.7	By the time you're listening to this, the first two episodes of annotated season two will be up and available.
1:16.8	As of right now, as of recording, the first one called Saving Shakespeare is up.
1:21.0	The next one coming out is called The Dictionary War, and then we just recorded a third one, the third
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