#303: Durable Dirigibles

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🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, Jeff and Rebecca follow-up about AI and copyright, Barnes & Noble's #bookhaul, Amazon goings-on, a genuinely interesting adaptation news story, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: If You're Out There Blinkist Girls Burn Brighter by Shoba Rao Help Me by Marianne Power Links discussed in this episode: Update: the Nobel is back Update: Court rules that Shitty Media Men list creator can’t be sued for emotional distress Amazon closing 87 pop-up stores and rethinking brick-and-mortar retail Students at all-boys catholic school started a feminist book club One Hundred Years of Solitude coming to Netflix Hero of the week: Texas principal reads books online in her PJs so students can have bedtime stories 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,
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0:21.0	Today's episode is brought to you by If You're out there, part whip smart suspense tale, part touching story of friendship.
0:27.6	No one knows Priya better than her best friend, Xan, which is exactly why she's convinced something
0:31.8	is disturbingly wrong when she ghosts her, even as everyone
0:35.2	insists she's fine. Becky Albert Ali, New York Times best-selling author of What If It's Us,
0:40.0	praises, this is funny, engrossing, and one of a kind, if you're out there completely swept
0:45.2	me away. If you're out there is available wherever books or audio books are sold. Thanks to them for sponsoring. This is the Book Grant Podcast, weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking
0:59.3	about in the world of books and reading.
1:01.2	This is episode 303, on Thursday March 7th
1:04.8	2019. I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky. We're coming to you from
1:09.2	Book Riot.com. Hello hello. Another one of these 72 hour turnarounds between episodes.
1:15.8	Things have been happening this week though.
1:17.3	There's plenty to talk about since Monday.
1:19.6	It's another kind of Amazon heavy week.
1:21.4	We should count like how many weeks out of the year are there major
1:24.7	Amazon stories. It feels like one out of four, one out of five even. You could do a whole thing.
1:30.3	I wonder maybe 2019 will be a year we talk about Amazon a lot it felt like there was so much Barnes and Noble
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