This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about Obama visiting Amazon, online price wars, new ereading statistics, bookstores that smell like chocolate, new books, and secret literary societies. This episode is sponsored by Brilliance by Marcus Sakey. 

 

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Links discussed in the show:

Follow-up: J.K. Rowling accepts apology from law firm responsible for Cuckoo’s Calling leak

Follow-up Kindle Worlds: Kurt Vonnegut’s trust licenses Slaughterhouse-Five fanfic rights

Amazon faces competition from Overstock.com, which is now promising to sell books 10% lower in price

Publishers Weekly wonders if President Obama hates indie bookstores

Libraries join forces with local airports

ReadUps

Fiction ebooks to overtake print by 2014

Borders to reopen….in Singapore

Chocolate sells books

New books discussed in the show:

Under the Empyrean Sky by Chuck Wendig

The Mistress by Tiffany Reisz

All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry

New in Paperback: Dear Life  by Alice Munro

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