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Book Riot - The Podcast

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

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Jenn Northington joins Rebecca to talk about the Hachette/Workman acquisition, the state of book tours, a truly mistifying publishing scam, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: Follow-up: Leander, TX school district pulls more books Hachette is buying Workman Did the pandemic kill the book tour? The strangest scam in publishing First look at Wheel of Time adaptation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Book Riot Podcast. This is a weekly news and talk show about what's new cool
0:08.8	and worth talking about in the world of books and reading, Increasingly about whatever we feel like talking about
0:14.4	related to the world of books and reading.
0:16.5	I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:17.6	I am here this week with Jen Northington.
0:20.0	While Jeff is out, I don't know,
0:21.6	cosplaying as me at a national park.
0:24.6	So.
0:25.9	Is that what's going on?
0:27.6	That's, I'm pretty sure he's going to come back
0:29.7	with like pink hair and 16 inches shorter. That will be a feat. I look forward to it. And you are also
0:37.6	freshly back from a National Park in Northington. Yeah, we went to Acadia National Park.
0:42.6	My partner's family has been going up there for 30 years
0:46.7	in the summer.
0:47.6	Yep, there's like their annual pilgrimage to nature,
0:51.2	which I'm on board with quite frankly an annual pilgrimage.
0:54.2	Yeah. We love a nature pilgrimage here. Right so it was it was lovely it was beautiful and
1:00.1	as I told Rebecca when I got back I did stand up paddleboarding for the first time, and now I'm obsessed.
1:05.0	It's the best.
1:07.0	It's pretty amazing.
1:08.0	So I'm looking forward to hearing much more about that and maybe we can work some inflatable
1:15.9	stand up paddleboarding into a future book right. Can we podcast from the
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