While Jeff is on vacation, Rebecca and special guest host Matt Debenham talk about the science of writing a bestseller, the future of digital publishing, and more. This episode is sponsored by Audible and BookBub.
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Links Discussed in the Show:
Scientists quantify elements that make books popular or unpopular
How will digital publishing evolve in 2014?
Publishers make more profit on ebooks than hardcovers; authors make less
New Diary of a Wimpy Kid sold 1.8 million copies in print but didn’t even make the top 100 Kindle books in 2013. What’s up with kids and digital reading?
New Books:
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz
Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin by Nicole Hardy
New in Paperback:
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg;
Drinking with Men by Rosie Schaap
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