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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about Dark Horse parting ways with Neil Gaiman, get off some hot takes about bookish social media, go through the ins-and-outs of ebooks coming to Bookshop.org, and more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky. Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter. A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this Episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Bookshop.org’s Ebook Launch & Reading 25 Minutes a Day in 2025 with Gretchen Rubin episode of First Edition Dark Horse Comics drops Neil Gaiman Bookshop.org launches ebook sales NYT’s coverage accidentally indicts how bad the old indie ebook options are Authors Guild introduces “Human Authored” certification New! Dan! Brown! Hero of the week: Octavia’s Bookshelf Defy by Sunita Sah Y2K by Colette Shade We Do Not Part by Han Kang Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the book ride podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:03.1	I'm Rebecca Schinsky.
0:04.5	And today we got a full new show.
0:06.1	Over the weekend, Dark Horse decided to drop the upcoming works from Neil Gaiman.
0:13.5	That's a little more complicated than that because there's back catalog and everything else.
0:16.7	But that's how going on.
0:19.6	There's all kinds of AI stuff going on.
0:22.1	There's bookshop launch and stuff.
0:23.8	It's a busy news week, Rebecca.
0:25.1	It just is.
0:26.2	Yeah, it feels like we are back fully in the swing now of a new year in the world of books and reading.
0:31.9	Yeah, a chocolate block book ticker means I don't have to pay attention to political news, which is great. So if you
0:38.3	can keep this coming books, all for good reasons. I don't want bad reasons, but there's stuff going on
0:44.5	here to programming announcements. We're going to record right after this show, going on the Patreon
0:48.5	next week. We're going to Book Club, We Do Not Part, by Hong Kong, which is her new novel that just
0:54.1	came out.
0:54.7	A few haven't heard, forgot.
0:56.9	She won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year.
1:00.0	So, Rebecca and I are going to talk about that book and maybe the wider Kong,
1:03.0	Uvoie.
1:04.7	Over there, you got one of those coming.
1:07.6	Let's see.
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