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Book Riot - The Podcast

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Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jenn Northington joins Jeff to talk about book blurbs, book sales, and the fundamental tension of Goodreads. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Book Riot's editorial team is writing for casual and power readers alike over at The Deep Dive! During the month of September, all new free subscribers will be entered to win Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, plus 5 mystery books from The Deep Dive. To enter, simply start a free subscription to The Deep Dive. No payment method required! Discussed in this episode: First Edition! First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack. The Book Riot Podcast Patreon The Conundrum of Blurbs Goodreads is Terrible for Books: Why Can’t We All Quit It? Wait, how many copies do most books sell? Dictionary.com adds 566 New Words for 2023 Texas Judge Blocks Book Ban Law Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

0:38.0

Today's Thursday, September 7th, 2023.

0:42.5

Rebecca is out in Italy doing Italy things,

0:44.7

but I'm pleased to have Jennifer, Jen,

0:48.0

Northington, join me on the show today.

0:50.6

And we're just doing a little pre-flight checklist and they're very

0:53.2

Northington friendly topic top of the top of the top of the list today the only one I

0:58.0

the only one I was really interesting well I thought of you specifically

1:01.2

because I think it was a no there's a piece this week and a

1:05.2

piece last week about blurbs I don't know why the the literary internet was on blurbs all of a sudden

1:09.9

but there's a piece in this square that we're going to talk about.

1:13.0

And Jen, you've done a couple of books through traditionally published stuff and you have

1:17.1

blurbs on a book that came out recently, so we're going to talk all about that.

1:19.8

Before we get into that, some things to let people know about.

1:23.8

First Edition, the It Book Knockout Round of September

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