Book Riot - The Podcast

Rebecca sits down with Portland State University researchers Kathi Inman Berens and Rachel Noorda to discuss the findings in their new book, How Gen Z Discover and Consume Books.

You can download How Gen Z Discover and Consume Books free from Cambridge University Press through August 6.

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Rebecca sits down with Portland State University researchers Kathi Inman Berens and Rachel Noorda to discuss the findings in their new book, How Gen Z Discover and Consume Books.

You can download How Gen Z Discover and Consume Books free from Cambridge University Press through August 6.

Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening.

Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life.

The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network.

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Jeff and Rebecca enjoy The Odyssey afterglow, lament AI slop biographies, cover a bunch of adaptation news, recent reading, and much more.

Jeff gets off some takes before the show gets going to talk about Amazon’s best-selling books of all-time, a formidable new AI lawsuit, sales of THE ODYSSEY editions, recent reading, and much more.

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Discussed in this episode:

Emily Wilson’s comments on Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey

Book Riot’s best adaptations of the century so far

Judge approves settlement in Anthropic copyright case

Scammer caught after publishing 5,000 AI slop biographies

New Taylor Jenkins Reid novel in March (same day as Percival Everett)

Apple already has the rights to adapt Rebecca Yarros’s next (non-Fourth Wing) novel

Sony picks up The Silent Patient for fast-tracked adaptation

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Jeff gets off some takes before the show gets going to talk about Amazon's best-selling books of all-time, a formidable new AI lawsuit, sales of THE ODYSSEY editions, recent reading, and much more.

Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening.

Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life.

The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network.

Discussed in this episode:

Amazon’s 50 bestselling books of all time

Publishers launch new suit against Google for using digital to train Gemini

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Jeff and Rebecca go over what books are selling, being talked about, and otherwise generating a little heat this month.

Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening.

Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life.

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