Gaiman Sued, Blurbs Deprecated, and A Book Sales Check-In

Book Riot - The Podcast

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Arts, News Commentary, News, Books, Tv & Film

4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca spend more time than they would like in legal-land before talking about how everybody hates blurbs, recent reading, and other book news. Then, Brenna Connor of Circana joins Jeff to talk about 2024 book sales highlights and lowlights before looking ahead to 2025. 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 First Edition Shout-out to Feedspot for featuring us as #5 in the top 100 book podcasts on the planet Scarlett Pavlovich sues Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer for rape & human trafficking and Netflix adaptation of Sandman to end after second season Man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie to go to trial Big 5 and Authors Guild sue Idaho over book banning law Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint won’t require blurbs and Rebecca Makkai essay in the NYT Dystopian novels are on the rise again after the inauguration On the Hippie Trail The Loves of My Life Life in Three Dimensions Tilt Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	This is the bookwry podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And today is Thursday,
0:36.5	February 6, 2025.
0:38.2	We are recording a news show.
0:40.0	So we're going to have the first segment of this episode.
0:42.3	It's going to be us talking about news and headlines as normal.
0:45.1	Then we'll take a quick sponsor break.
0:47.1	And they're going to hear me talk to Brenna Connor of Sircana, formerly known as BookScan, for those of you who used to know things about
0:55.3	how books operate.
0:57.4	I'm still learning.
0:58.1	Still am.
0:58.9	I'm a much going to talk to me about the data she has around the book sales of 2024,
1:03.4	trends to watch in 2025, and what's going on there.
1:06.1	Happy to have, Brenda.
1:07.7	Back, programming notes.
1:09.9	We're going to get to this in front list, Foyer, but on first
1:12.5	edition this morning, my interview with Professor Shigero Oishi went up as we talked about
1:17.4	life in three dimensions, especially as the literature and reading parts were important to my
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