Climax at the Climax
This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about Elmore Leonard and Albert Murray, Barnes and Noble’s Nook reversal, the largest publishers in the world, high school reading lists through the years, and new ways to experience…well you’ll just have to listen. This week’s episode is sponsored by Panorama City by Antoine Wilson and Audible. Get a free audiobook credit at www.audibletrial.com/bookriot.
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Links discussed in the show:
Barnes & Noble reverses Nook strategy
Indiegogo to fund Vibease–vibrator synced to adult audiobooks
Google wants to patent audio trigger points for digital reading
Major publishes says piracy doesn’t harm ebook sales
Statistics about students’ reading
Publishers Weekly stats on the world’s 60 largest book publishers
Books discussed:
Albert Murray: Omni Americans, Train Whistle Guitar, and Trading Twelves
Audiobook: Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo
Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
What in God’s Name? by Simon Rich, also The Last Girlfriend on Earth
Trash Can Days by Teddy Steinkellner
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