If You Give a Dude a Gadget
Rebecca and Jeff talk about movie versions of THE GIVER, bookstores that smell like chocolate, Borders bookstore lives on in Singapore, the rise of audiobooks, and the origin of the Playboy interview. This episode is sponsored by Among the Janeites by Deborah Yaffe.
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Links discussed in the show:
Meryl Streep to play Chief Elder in THE GIVER
Hunger Games-themed summer camp
Women buy 58% of books, 44% of books bought online
Audiobook sales up, 31% year-over-year at Hachette
Sony tool matches you to ebooks for your mood
New Books!
Hothouse by Boris Kachka: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
The Realm of Last Chances by Steve Yarbrough:
Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins
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