Obama's Summer Reading List, B&N Buys Another Indie & More

Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca announce a couple of new projects before talking about authors settling with Anthropic, Obama's summer reading list, the Kirkus Prize nominees, B&N buying Books Inc, and more of the week's book stories. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Discussed in this Episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Subscribe to Zero to Well-Read Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter Barnes & Noble to acquire Books, Inc Anthropic settles in AI copyright infringement case over book piracy Jonathan Karp steps down as Simon & Schuster CEO to run new imprint 2025 Kirkus Prize finalists (note the Nov 1-October 31 eligibility window, can we please stop) Obama’s summer reading picks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Anna, I've got a new secret weapon for print.
0:02.3	Print.
0:02.9	Vista print, right? That's not a secret. Print everything for your business with Vista print. Business cards, stickers, t-shirt, signage, even photo books from your last holiday. If you need it, we print it at vistoprint.co.uk. This is the bookwry podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Schinsky. And we're scrambling
0:23.3	like a bunch of squirrels today, Rebecca. It's a really good, fun scramble. We both love to be in
0:30.3	startup mode on a thing. I know longtime listeners have heard us talk about having the Don Draper.
0:35.3	You like the beginnings of things. I don't know if it's a disease.
0:39.1	It's a condition.
0:41.1	And I really like it.
0:42.6	But we are just about to launch two big things that we've been working on.
0:46.6	Whose idea was this?
0:47.7	For months.
0:48.8	It just happened that way.
0:51.4	Sure.
0:53.3	We have been, I mean, our shared project, the first of the big launch, is called Zero to
0:59.5	Well Red.
1:00.5	It's a new podcast that launches on the ninth.
1:03.3	You'll be able to find it wherever you get your podcasts and it's kind of what it sounds
1:07.9	like.
1:08.9	But we also have a big flagship newsletter for Book Riot that we've been working on that
1:12.7	will launch on the 9th and come out every Tuesday and Thursday. So we can talk about those a little bit here. But we are fully in spin-up mode. Yeah. And I'm going to ready to go to New York for a bunch of work meetings. I'm looking at my calendar and like getting vertigo already. It's going to be a little wild. but I get to show off and talk about new things.
1:27.9	We even talk about either of these things in the main feed, right?
1:30.0	We did the pilot episode. already it's going to be a little wild, but I get to show off and talk about new things.
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