This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about giving away ebooks at hotels, a Venice mayor has a banning iniative blow up in his face, free bus rides for Romanian readers, ill-advised literary adaptations and much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Squarespace, Scribd, and Everybody Rise by Stephanie Clifford.

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Links discussed in the show:

READ HARDER Book groups!

Simon & Schuster giving away ebooks via hotels.com

Venice authors request to be banned

Read on the bus, ride for free in Romania

New indie bookstore sells only Colorado authors

Nielsen numbers re: who’s reading romance

Jane Austen’s life coming to big-screen comedy

New books discussed in the show:

I Was a Revolutionary – Andrew Malan Milward

The Girl From the Garden – Parnaz Foroutan

 

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