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Book Riot - The Podcast

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Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca chronicle the continuing effects of COVID-19 on the world of books. This episode is sponsored by: TBR Spalding University The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, and by Harper Perennial Links discussed in this episode: Sales of print books held steady last week Unemployed NYC booksellers launch online bookstore Libraries want to turn bookmobiles into free WiFi trucks during COVID-19 Strand lays off 188 booksellers after New York orders lockdown of non-essential businesses Skyhorse Publishing lays off nearly ⅓ of staff Scholastic begins temporary staff reductions Harry Potter Alliance throwing a virtual con JK Rowling allowing read-alouds of HP Diamond Comics Distributors to stop receiving shipments of new comics amid COVID-19 concerns HarperCollins to launch Native-Focused Imprint See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Poitrei Podcast. This is episode 365.

0:07.0

Recording on Thursday, March 26th, and depending on where you are and when your quarantine clock started you could be just starting

0:20.0

or really a couple weeks into it I think I think my where we are started on the early side for we

0:26.7

started to see in terms of shut downs in school so we're approaching two weeks in

0:31.9

on my side so here we are yeah we are at two weeks in I think today in

0:38.4

my household we started before official things were said in Virginia because it seemed like the thing to do

0:47.7

So we'll be yeah about two and a half weeks in by the time this airs I'm guessing now

1:00.8

That were 25 the fat the middle of my

0:54.8

25% into this is kind of my guess that's kind of where I'm that's my the fat the

1:00.5

fat middle of my probability curve is says we're 25% of the way in so I'm looking

1:05.6

at another six weeks or so but yeah I could be wrong about that I think that's

1:10.2

probably a good guess given that I know absolutely nothing more than you or

1:15.4

anyone else knows about it but that it feels true at least I was telling you

1:20.5

yesterday that Virginia's governor earlier this week, you know, gave the order to cancel school for the rest of the year, the rest of the school year, and shut down non-essential businesses.

1:29.7

And for me that was a relief, like just that helped a switch flip of like one less thing was

1:34.8

uncertain so I feel like I'm settling into the quarantine life my partner is

1:39.7

working from home full-time now we We're navigating that. It's okay. Everybody's

1:45.1

Figuring things out. I feel like we're into the figure it out and live in it space and I can I can do that a lot better than just wondering what's going to happen.

1:54.0

Yeah and when I say into it it's not going to be like the flip switches and we're all

2:00.3

back to completely normal like there's going to be they're going to be hot spots and warm spots and, you know,

2:05.5

I wouldn't anticipate gradual.

2:08.3

There being, you know, giant sporting events in six weeks.

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