Hello and welcome back to the Book Riot Podcast.

This is a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and we're talking about

in the world of books and reading, recording on Thursday, July 29, 2021.

I'm Jeff O'Neill, and I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky coming to you from the increasingly

abstract web entity attribution that is Book Riot.com.

Is it the URL, is it the dot com is it the

URL is it the brand is it our you know cloud of newsletters and

affiliated products we're just for book right we're from book right we say that

now we just I think we should drop the dot com we're just for book right. Yeah, that's that's a good point. Have you checked out the Google.com

Recently? Well, it was so interesting. You know, I just finished reading an ugly truth, the big book about Facebook, and having to see them refer to it in the copyrighted the Facebook way that it was in the first couple of years when it was the Facebook.com. I was I remember that and that was whoever thought that was a good idea.

It was Zuckerberg. There's a social network and I don't know if it's true or not but

yeah Timberlake plays Sean Parker, the Napster guy.

And his big thing is just to go, just Facebook.

Like there's a big thing.

So, yeah, that's a good note.

We're suffering from an embarrassment of riches when it comes to

cringe tell-all's about startups because I got this we work book that I'm

interested in. The Facebook one I think has a bridge too far far Ben Mezrich has a book coming about

about meme stocks in Robin Hood. I just saw that in Publishers Weekly the other day

which I'm very interested in. Did you see today that the CEO and co-founder of

Nikola which is one of the myriad electric vehicle

startups of various levels of business. Actual business.

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