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Today, Explained

Amazon’s garbage book factory

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Vox senior correspondent Constance Grady went inside the seedy underbelly of online self-publishing and lived to tell the tale. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn with help from Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers with help from Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! vox.com/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Your Dad's favorite author Eric Larson has a new page Turner. It's about the Civil War and it's gotten a lot of press.

0:07.0

Lincoln did something that was, I think politically was quite brilliant.

0:11.0

He decided, okay. As with other Larson books, like The Devil in the White City or Thunderstruck, the title's

0:16.4

campy and it's kind of random.

0:18.4

The Demon of Unrest.

0:20.6

It's almost as if there is this demon a foot in the land and sometimes frankly it's a little hard to understand exactly why

0:26.6

What does that have to do with the civil never mind point is your dad isn't going to remember that title when he goes to buy the book on Kindle.

0:33.1

He's probably just going to search for Eric Larson.

0:35.6

And up will pop what you might call Eric Larson Books.

0:39.6

Titles such as Eric Larson Biography Book and Eric Larson, the and Eric Larson the biography of a storyteller all

0:46.6

published in the first five months of this year what is going on coming up on today explained a man a plan a scam AI and why your Kindle is full of garbage

1:01.2

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