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Book Riot - The Podcast

#310: Filigreed Elvish

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News, Books, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Jenn talk about Baker & Taylor getting out of the retail distribution business (and why you might care), Audible's Alexa experiment, the Tolkien estate being utterly predictable, and more. This episode is sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus Audible Lola (use offer code BOOKRIOT for 40% off) Kindle Unlimited Links discussed in this episode: Baker & Taylor exiting retail distribution Tolkien estate disavows "Tolkien" The Blood Heir controversy The Smallest Barnes & Noble Audible's Alexa Customer Support Experiment Barnes & Noble Launches YA Book Club 1 Game of Thrones Prequel Series Bites the Dust Companion Manuscript to A Clockwork Orange Found James Patterson to donate $1.25 million to school libraries and teachers Obamas' Netflix docket is decidedly bookish The Toni Morrison documentary See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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For chicken worth dipping, it better be bird's eye. This is episode 3 10, a book write podcast weekly news and talk show about what's new,

0:38.0

cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.

0:40.0

This is episode 310, recording on Thursday, May 2nd.

0:45.0

I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm here with Jen Northington.

0:47.0

I almost said Rebecca today,

0:48.0

even was reading it.

0:49.0

There are kind of tried to sneak out of there.

0:51.0

And we're coming to you from bookrad.

0:53.1

Rebecca's on vacation, so I enlisted Jen to come help me and I'm glad we didn't even

0:57.2

know this but we've got Jen we've got Jen-centric topics a little bit to come out here especially so I'm going to be

1:04.0

leaning on you heavily in the first segment of the show but one thing I don't

1:07.8

need to lean heavily on you for is to rant about and pricing it's been a

1:12.4

while but I thought I get I know I'm not on

1:16.2

Twitter anymore but I get emails through the the podcast email account when

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