Podcast Episodes

Rabbit-Deer Hybrid Thing

Jeff and Rebecca continue to mull ChatGPT’s potential to change reading, assess another change to “classic” texts, recount recent reading, and more.

F…

2 years, 11 months ago

Buttering the Bricks [Updated]

Book Riot managing editor Vanessa Diaz joins Jeff to talk about the officially-ratified HarperCollins contract, ChatGPT and ebook “authorship,” books…

3 years ago

A Tale as Old as the Medici

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the end of the HarperCollins strike, possible homes for Simon & Schuster, a real mess at Indigo, recent reading, and more…

3 years ago

Riding on a High of Wanting to Be Different

Jeff And Rebecca cover a range of interesting listener emails, catch up with publishing pay raises, look back at 10 years of data from the YA categor…

3 years ago

Recreational Awe

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the Barnes & Noble renaissance, a new book from Jesmyn Ward, developments in the world of publishing pay, a couple of new…

3 years ago

The Apocalypse is For Everybody

Jeff and Rebecca consider listener feedback, talk about Goodreads users’s most anticipated books of 2023, a wild use case for modern chatbots and boo…

3 years, 1 month ago

No Country for Old Scuba Divers

Jeff and Rebecca follow up on reading goggles and scorched earth memoirs, look at other angles on unions in publishing, survey what recent-ish books …

3 years, 1 month ago

9 Billion NDAs

Jeff and Rebecca talk a little more union stuff, try to imagine e-reading with VR goggles, note with disinterest a blockbuster title, look at the bes…

3 years, 1 month ago

Top 10 Most Anticipated Adaptations Coming in 2023

Jeff and Rebecca talk about 10 interesting new adaptations coming in 2023. Plus other less interesting but still interesting ones.

Follow the podcast …

3 years, 1 month ago

Camels and Wedges

Jeff and Rebecca are back to talk about Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2022, Apple launches AI narration of audiobooks, 2022 print sales, listener …

3 years, 1 month ago