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Book Riot - The Podcast

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

4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about trends in 2019's bestsellers, Macmillan being banned from an industry conference, the American Dirt apology from Flatiron, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: Diamond City by Francisca Flores Spring Rain by Andy Warner The Handsell Links discussed in this episode: Follow-up: Reagan Arthur to head Knopf Weird update: Digital Book World bans Macmillan employees over ebook lending And Macmillan CEO got into hot water at ALA Interesting breakdown of the 2019 bestsellers The Witcher getting a 500k-copy reprint thanks to Netflix popularity Hunger Games prequel focuses on Coriolanus Snow More Americans visited the library than the movie theater in 2019 And drag queens will protest a bill that could jail librarians hosting Drag Queen Story Hours 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 a weekly news and talk. It's not weekly. We're biweekly now and it's not
0:07.7	weekly. We're biweekly now and it's not just news and well this episode I need to figure out what are we doing here we need a new
0:14.8	lead in this is the book grant podcast where we talk about book things yes hello
0:19.2	and welcome it's new and cool sometimes it's old and boring but we're talking about books together in
0:25.8	in conversation. I think next week is episode 350 and that seems like a good time to write a new introduction to the show.
0:37.0	Well let me blow your mind this is episode 350.
0:41.0	Well then even better.
0:43.0	All right. So next time you hear...
0:45.0	Yeah, next time, this is the last.
0:48.0	So we're gonna roll taps for the old header.
0:52.0	If you're attached to that, maybe see someone about that.
0:57.0	But so it goes. But this is episode 350 recording on Thursday, January 30, 2020, I'm Jeff, she's Rebecca.
1:04.0	Coming to you from the patronus that is Book Riot.com.
1:08.0	Oh, we're a Patronis now.
1:09.4	It's just like, it's just like, it's a feeling that lives in your heart.
1:13.0	I think of Book Riot as like a, we're like a Voltron creation.
1:17.0	Yeah, there you go.
1:18.0	An Armada, maybe?
1:20.0	A digital Armada.
1:22.0	That's what I'm gonna... Digital Armada. The next VC startup I want to see be a digital armada things.
1:28.0	Sounds like a bunch of hackers.
1:30.0	Six months from now we're going to get like a tech crunch press release from some other
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