The Neil Gaiman Story Gets Worse, Best-Selling Books of 2024, and The Price of Books with Kathleen Schmidt

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🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the very, very ugly details emerging about Neil Gaiman, 2024's best-selling books, audio-first publishing, and more. Then, Kelly Jensen and Kathleen Schmidt talk about the price of books and what effects they have. 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: Details emerge in sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman Simon & Schuster launches audio-first imprint helmed by Jason Pinter Print book sales saw small increase in 2024 Steven Soderbergh read more books than I did last year Publishing Confidential What Will Potential Tariffs Mean for Comics? The Little Book of Goat Yoga Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor Rebecca Yarros Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix Aflame by Pico Iyer Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What kind of weekend are you in the mood for?
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0:11.0	drama and fine dining with The Bear,
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0:27.7	This is the book ride podcast.
0:29.5	I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:30.4	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:32.5	And we've got an interesting show for you today.
0:34.8	We're going to do two segments.
0:36.2	The first segment is a kind of a shorthy version of a regular episode to do some news, talk frontless foyer, and the B segment. Well, Rebecca, tell people we're in the B segment.
0:45.3	Yeah, so in the second half of the show, you will hear our colleague Kelly Jensen, one of our great writers, one of our editors on the site, speaking with Kathleen Schmidt, who is a long-time
0:54.8	book publicist and writes a great substack called Publishing Confidential about what tariffs might
1:00.5	mean for book prices and book consumers here in the U.S. And just I guess as a programming
1:05.8	note, we're going to be trying more of this in 2025. Secondary segments to the show with interviews. On next week's show,
1:13.0	you'll hear me talking with the author Jamie Attenberg about how she got started and now goes about
1:19.0	running a book fair for a local school in her neighborhood in New Orleans to ensure that every
1:23.9	child goes home with books from the book fair, how they fundraise and plan for that. And we have some other interesting stuff coming up this year.
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