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Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about Barnes & Noble as publishing’s hero(!?), developments in the world of book banning, new initiatives to combat said banning, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: Book bans now reaching math textbooks in Florida California student’s petition to expand conversations about race in literature 5 Under 35 honorees Brooklyn Public Library offers ecards to kids 13-21 as a move to provide access/resist book bans We Need Diverse Books To Offer Grants to Educators to Buy Books  How Barnes & Noble went from villain to hero Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Book Right Podcast. It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool,

0:07.5

and worth talking about the world of books and reading. We're according on Thursday, April 21st,

0:11.6

2022.

0:12.6

I'm Jeff O'Neil here with Rebecca Shinsky

0:14.3

coming to you from Book Riot.com,

0:16.2

which I guess is obvious in the name of the show.

0:19.2

We are now T-minus, nine days from from according to the publishing industry the start of summer.

0:27.0

And the best Herald of the start of the summer reading season is our summer preview draft which you can get and

0:33.2

listen to if you're a book riot podcast patreon member subscriber I'm not

0:36.8

sure what I guess subscriber supporter patron patron that's a tequila, not a person.

0:45.0

Petron.

0:46.0

So you can go check it out there.

0:48.0

We had a really good time recording it, a fascinating reading season to come up. And're you know to today we're recording the next

0:55.9

special thing that's gonna go in the in the in the patron feed are we gonna tell

0:59.9

people ahead of time or at like as a as a patron I think I would like to be

1:03.4

surprised that something shows up there and they don't know what's going to be what do you

1:06.0

think about this Rebecca I am just fine with letting what appears in the

1:10.6

feed be a surprise and then you can let folks here know what's available

1:15.1

to them if they decide to join us over there with all the folks that have already

1:19.5

joined because once you do join the backlist becomes available to you as well.

1:24.0

Folks are already starting to vote Jeff and I won't I won't spoil which way the

1:29.4

vote is gone. I'm not going to poison the water you know I believe in a democratic process by the internet, but I will say interesting single issue voters on both sides.

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