The Luckiest Publisher in the World with Arnaud Nourry
As former Chairman and CEO of Hachette, Arnaud offers a candid look inside a major international publisher. Under his leadership, Hachette grew from a French-centric company to a global player, publishing authors like Barack Obama, Stephanie Meyer, Malcolm Gladwell, James Patterson, and Rick Riordan. His new venture, Les Nouveaux Éditeurs, is a nimble and editor-driven reimagining of book publishing.
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The Keystone with Judith Curr
Where do global bestsellers come from? We hear from Judith Curr on her fascinating worldwide publishing journey. From a one-room schoolhouse in Australia to a career full of international bestsellers like The Celestine Prophecy, The Secret, and breakout bestselling authors like Colleen Hoover and Lisa Jewell, Judith has always had an eye for the next big thing.
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Backstories: A Special First Anniversary Episode
This episode marks the one-year anniversary of the Open Book Podcast, so we thought we would do something a little different. We often ask our guests to share their journey as readers, including the earliest books that they read that really made an impression. For this special one-year anniversary episode, we're going to listen to a number of our guests from the past year and their thoughts about the books that made a difference to them when they were young.
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"This Could Be the Best Book I’ve Ever Read" with Sally Kim
Sally Kim is the President and Publisher of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group that includes the flagship imprint originally founded in 1837, with a catalog that boasts authors like JD Salinger, Louisa May Alcott, Malcolm Gladwell, Nelson Mandela and David Sedaris, to name a few. Sally’s journey from intern to editor and then publisher is both fascinating and comprehensive—she is one of the few people in the industry to work at all of the Big 5 publishing houses.
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"A Book Bought in a Good Bookstore is a Better Book" with James Daunt
James Daunt is a busy man, leading three iconic booksellers on two continents. In this episode, he shares his journey from founding a single independent bookstore in London in 1990 to rescuing and turning around the two largest bookstore chains in the English-speaking world: Waterstones in the UK and Barnes & Noble in the US.
Conversations with publishers, editors, authors, journalists, thinkers, executives and other makers of culture, hosted by David Steinberger, CEO of Open Road Integrated Media and Chairman of the National Book Foundation.
https://openroadintegratedmedia.com/podcast/
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