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Book Riot - The Podcast

Wheelhouse or Beehive

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jenn Northington joins Jeff today to talk about Bookshop.org launching, the sales success of Barnes & Noble’s 2019 Book of the Year winner, Star Wars books, and more. This episode is sponsored by: Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen Book Riot Insiders Links discussed in this episode: ToMo Dayyyyyyyyyyyy Bookshop.org is live and Jeff bought a book. A tale. (Jenn created an affiliate account!) Libro.fm’s bookshop.org….competitor? Barnes & Noble’s book of the year is a huge success (jeff has sales numbers). New Star Wars story-telling….wave starts with books Oklahoma school curriculum to (finally) include Tulsa Massacre of 1921, thanks to Watchmen PRH’s pledges to go carbon-neutral by 2030 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Bookry Podcast.

0:05.0

This episode 3.57.

0:07.0

I'm here with Jen Nortington, who hasn't been on in a while,

0:11.0

but I got to, I brought her back in time to talk about awkward independent

0:14.2

book selling retail solutions, which is her.

0:17.4

I don't know that you, you haven't talked about your wheelhouse.

0:19.8

Yes, yeah, yeah, your wheelhouse, your beeh hive, I guess, maybe as it should be.

0:24.0

And recording on February 27th, 2020, Jen, welcome back.

0:29.0

Thank you, always good to be here.

0:32.0

If you don't know Jen host, co-host with Shrifa SFF,

0:36.4

yeah, our science fiction fantasy podcast

0:40.0

and get booked with Amanda, which is recommendations.

0:44.5

You can write in and they'll recommend books personally

0:48.0

for you that then other people can hear.

0:50.0

Because the only thing better is the recommendation for you

0:52.6

is voyeuristically listening to a recommendation

0:56.2

for someone else.

0:56.8

What are people asking for?

0:58.2

Are there any trends right now

0:59.3

in the recommendation world?

1:02.1

Gosh, that's interesting. You know there's sort of perennial trends like we get a lot of

1:08.0

Neil Gaiman slash Madeline Miller comp requests things like that and there's always like I'm going on vacation to Greece

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