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Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This week, Jeff and Jenn talk for a loonggg time about Bookshop.org, but also manage to squeeze in some consideration of audiobooks becoming more like podcasts, a big publisher dipping its toe into Spotify, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger The Great Courses Plus The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar Taina by Ernesto Quiñonez Links discussed in this episode: Follow-up Apple TV+ stuff, the adaptation of Ghostwriter Follow-up: audible pausing caption feature Bookshop.org EpicReads curates audiobook list on Spotify Speaking of audiobook innovation Wizard of EarthSea coming to TV Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale Sequel Is Already Being Developed by Hulu TD Grade One Book Giveaway Waffle House names a poet laureate, whose mission is to travel to rural Georgia schools and promote the arts 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.
0:05.0	It is a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.
0:12.0	This is episode 330. We're
0:13.7	recording on Thursday, September 12th, 2019. I am here now with Rebecca Shinsky
0:18.6	with Jen Northington. We're coming to you from Book Riot.com. An auspicious day to have you as a guest,
0:24.0	and we didn't even know it coming in.
0:28.0	As a former independent bookseller,
0:31.1	as someone who's, let's be honest honest a piece of your art is still in the
0:33.9	independent bookstore somewhere there's a piece of your heart in multiple bookstores all
0:38.1	over the country but it's still very much interested in the fate, health, and well-being and practices of independent
0:47.2	bookstores and a relatively big piece of news about independent, as big as, I'm trying to think what could be a bigger piece of news about independent bookstores themselves,
0:52.7	I'm trying to think what could be a bigger piece of news
0:54.4	about independent bookstores themselves,
0:55.9	not as reacting to something
0:56.9	as someone else is doing.
0:58.0	I couldn't really, because it's so confederated
0:59.8	that one store doing something doesn't really matter,
1:02.2	but something like this. we'll get to a minute
1:04.0	trying to compete with Amazon a slightly different way I guess maybe that's part of the discussion but Jen
1:08.2	thanks for being here happy to be here a follow-up for a minute episode you weren't on about linear feet and how archives measured the amount of documents they have.
1:17.0	Had a research librarian write in to say that we eventually, Rebecca and I got to the right answer and by we I mean Rebecca which is the linear
1:26.2	feet are referring to is how much shelf space it takes up and an easy
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