Harris Book Sales Spike, the Hugos Catch Some Bad Cheaters, and More Book News

Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca respond to some listener feedback, talk about the sales spike of Kamala Harris books, some truly amateur hour cheating in the Hugo Awards, and nerd out about some specific sales data related the the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century List. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! Discussed in this episode: What is Going on with Book Sales? Episode of First Edition ***We’re hiring*** The NYT list is moving units Kamala Harris book sales soaring Hugo Awards reveal (poorly executed) scheme to get fraudulent votes for one author Nickel Boys adaptation will open the New York Film Festival, hits theaters 10/25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.0	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And we're recording on Zoom and I'm trying not to look at your Rebecca I stabbed out of that
0:56.9	We can turn our cameras off I know but I don't want to know I'm having audio video problems today in Zoom which they do this for a living and we usually use
1:05.2	Slack. No one cares, but it's, we're in a different environment today. Today we're going to talk about,
1:10.8	we got a lot of follow-up to do, the New York Times a hundred best books of the century
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