Welcome to the Bookry Podcast, this episode 363.

We're recording on Thursday, March 19th, 2020.

It used to be that I didn't know that mattered that much, the date.

Oh, it matters now.

And it matters now in a real way.

In this whole episode, we're going to devote to COVID-19's impact on the world of books and reading.

And it is significant and developing and by the time you're listening to this,

I'm sure things will be different.

Though we're approaching a point with books and reading that the things that are can shut down will shut down

So we might enter this hurry up and wait

Part of the story which I think I guess I'm feeling as much as

anything right now a hurry up and wait mentality really in the last four or five

days and that's kind of where I am Rebecca where are you today I am in that same

place like you know I think like many if not most of us one of the

hardest things for me is just a place of in between you know I can get okay

with a bad situation if I know the bad situation and I can just do the things.

And every day it feels like we're getting a little bit closer to actually knowing what this

is going to be or at least what we're supposed to be doing and how it's going to look for publishing specifically.

But right now I'm really feeling the like it's different today than it was yesterday and yesterday it was different than the day before and

tomorrow it will probably be different that's

that has been rough. Before I forget I want to let our listeners know that at the end of the

show they will get to hear an interview that I'm doing with our friend Josh Christie who is one of the

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