Quibi's epic fall and the future of books

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of what the future of Kindle turns out to be: We’re once again trying out a couple of our favorite new show formats. In Version History, we talk through the whole story of Quibi, from its early days as NewTV to its extremely ill-timed launch to its ultimate demise. From Variety: Quibi Has Raised $1.75B After Closing $750M Round to Fund Launch From Variety: Jeffrey Katzenberg’s NewTV Closes $1B, Major Studios Among Investors Quibi’s CES 2020 launch Quibi app review: short-form streaming in a shifting landscape Steven Spielberg is writing a horror series you’ll only be able to at night Quibi’s Super Bowl 2020 commercial From The Wall Street Journal: Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman Struggle With Their Startup—and Each Other How Quibi imploded less than six months after launch 11 reasons why Quibi crashed and burned in less than a year Next, we try out our as-yet-untitled debate show. The Verge’s Kevin Nguyen and Alex Cranz take on a surprisingly contentious topic: is the future of books print or digital? The Boox Palma is an amazing gadget I didn’t even know I wanted Kobo’s great color e-readers are held back by lock-in From The Wall Street Journal: How the Kindle Became a Must-Have Accessory (Again) The Playdate makes a surprisingly good e-reader Later, producer Andru Marino answers a question from The Vergecast Hotline about a very unusual shopping situation for MP3 players. NW-E394 Walkman Digital Music Player Mighty’s ‘iPod shuffle for Spotify’ gets upgraded battery and Bluetooth Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Virgecast, the flagship podcast of whatever the future of the Kindle
0:06.9	turns out to be. I'm your friend David Pierce and I am still on vacation.
0:10.8	This is the second week that I am out. Right now if you're
0:14.1	hearing this on Tuesday I am probably at with my parents in upstate Connecticut
0:20.3	just hanging out. I'm probably on an intertube in a lake as everyone should be at
0:25.4	some point this summer. Anyway, while I'm gone we've been doing this little
0:29.9	mini pilot season. I hope you enjoyed last week we talked about
0:33.1	Roku and we talked about car play trying out some new formats and structures for the
0:37.3	show and we're going to do something similar today. We have two more versions of
0:41.4	those same shows. We figured instead of just doing one pilot we'd try it
0:44.9	twice we'd get to learn a lot about how it went. Maybe we'd be better at it the second time.
0:48.7	Maybe you'd be more familiar. We'd love to hear your thoughts. We're going to try it again. This time
0:53.5	we're going to talk about Roku and we're going to talk about e-books. Both super
0:56.9	fun, very excited for you to hear them both. And as I mentioned before, we
1:00.6	really, really want to hear your feedback. I want to know everything you think about these formats, about these shows, about whether you'd like to hear more of them, about whether you hope we never ever do them again.
1:10.0	All of it. We've been experimenting with this stuff. We always like trying new formats and new ideas, but we also love
1:15.2	What this show is and we don't want to change it just for the sake of changing it. So tell us everything you think about the show about the formats about the stuff that
1:23.9	we're covering in particular if you have ideas for what you want to see us do on
1:26.9	either of those shows and segments please let us know
1:29.9	vergecast at the verge.com call the hotline 866 verg 1 1 we want to hear everything.
1:35.0	All right two more pilots let's go this is the Virg cast we'll be right back
1:40.8	How do custom orders work on Krakhan?
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