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Book Riot - The Podcast

The Hamster Will Be Our Guinea Pig

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about their plans and strategy for the Fall Preview Draft, a bookstore getting an imprint, PRH jacking up the price of Amanda Gorman’s book, what a wonderful era of Black literature it is, and much more. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher. Discussed in this episode: We’re hiring again! Web engineer & ad ops associate New Oprah pick The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois 50 UK bookstores will open early for Sally Rooney release 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 Book Riot Podcast. Original Recipe Book Riot Podcast after several weeks of

0:08.3

spicy chicken, you know, this is what everyone does now. Thanks to Shrif and Jen for sitting in for both of us at various

0:16.0

times. Really good stuff. I listen to you and Jen talk about workmen for a little while.

0:19.5

I don't think we need to get into there.

0:23.0

I thought it was, it's really interesting.

0:24.7

And like you guys, I think it said explicitly or hint that,

0:27.8

it's not a surprise after the several dominoes fell

0:30.4

and the Simon Schuster getting acquired and then the H.M.H.

0:34.4

Trade getting acquired, like what's left?

0:37.2

It kind of is interesting to see where those dominoes fall.

0:39.2

So I recommend if you haven't, go check those out there. I guess points of order before we get into the show we're hiring

0:46.4

agains because there's multiple positions. We'll link in the show notes.

0:53.0

One is for a full stack front and back in web engineer.

0:57.0

If you know what that means, you know what it means.

0:58.0

And if you don't, it doesn't matter to you, but there's a link in the show notes there as well.

1:02.0

Step one of the screening process.

1:05.4

Yeah, do you know what the job is?

1:08.1

The second one maybe requires a little more explanation

1:11.6

because this could be used in different ways.

1:12.8

It's an Ad Ops Associate and this is one where you would be helping get the

1:18.8

ads on the show, traffic to, traffic to clients, reporting to our clients clients like helping us make the ads pieces of what we do

1:26.7

better and you know making sure the the trains run on time that's a more junior position and I think if you're a

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