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Book Riot - The Podcast

Complexity Doesn't Have to Be a Bummer

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about 2021 print sales and reading habits, Harlequin’s subscription play, give a general review of Station Eleven on HBO, and more. Discussed in this episode: Follow-up in Bernardini case ​​ Latest Pew stats re: Americans’ reading habits Print Books Have Huge 2021 Harlequin’s new subscription service debuts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Book Right Podcast. It's weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.

0:09.0

Today is Thursday, January 13, 2022.

0:12.0

20, 2022. I'm Javoniel here with Rebecca Tzinsky coming to you from

0:17.5

Book Riot.com. We got a lot to get through today and not much time to do it. We're going to do a couple things because

0:24.9

we're starting to get 2021 results from the publishing industry. I've got the list of the

0:31.0

best-selling books of the year, but I'm going to hold that in the bans till next week.

0:33.8

So we're just going to do the top tier today.

0:36.4

Publishing is doing doing some check out some other stuff and I've got some hot takes to throw at you.

0:41.2

Okay.

0:42.2

But that's a preview of next week. And I will I will

0:46.6

abstain from looking at any headlines or clicking on anything about the top

0:51.0

selling books of the year so that I can come in cold and give you the

0:55.2

setup that you prefer where I just guess wildly at things.

0:59.9

It will be humiliating I think and this is the reason why and I spent some time on

1:05.4

Tik-Tok over break especially book related it is interesting I've got some

1:10.6

thoughts Danick and I talked about it before. I got some details from her. I really swam around in the pool.

1:18.1

I'm not sure if it's a place I want to hang out, but I think it's worth talking about, especially when you start to see some of the names that appear there and some meta trends within or sub trends within the trends.

1:28.1

So all that's to be said next week we're going to get to specific titles.

1:31.2

This week we're going to do reading habits, printing, library stuff, and then

1:36.2

Station 11. We are now, episode 9 came out today. I have not watched it yet. There's one more

1:42.2

episode to go I'm

1:43.4

sorry the episode no episode 10 came out today it's done it's out

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