Bookshop.org is Thinking About Maybe Getting into Audiobooks

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Bookshop.org is Thinking About Maybe Getting into Audiobooks

Bookshop.org is one of many nice book-related digital success tales (of these not now-owned by Amazon, what is second on that listing? A phase for one more day). And with audiobook listenership nonetheless rising, not having the ability to serve their clients with audiobooks should sting. I obtained this survey this morning asking clients about audiobook habits, and what can this imply however at the very least the consideration of attending to the sport? I assumed it was too late for an indie-focused print competitor when Bookshop.org first launch, so I’m not going to make the identical mistake and assume it is too late now. I’ll say that Spotify’s emergence as a viable and damn-near ubiquitous audiobook-listening selection each makes Bookshop’s determination more durable and possibly extra acute.

The Most Read Story within the Los Angeles Times’ Book Section is This 9 Year-Old Post about J. Lo.

Apparently, essentially the most learn story for the time being is this really wonderful put up a couple of really silly line from a film the place Lopez playas a classics trainer who is gifted a signed first version of….The Iliad (f you aren’t up in your Ancient Greek literary masterworks, the concept that there is a “first-edition” and that it may very well be “signed” is a bit like saying their first pet was a velociraptor). This is neither new or newsworthy right here nearly a decade later, however I can’t assist however point out it for many who didn’t know.

Reeese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Is Not Doing OK

Rebecca and I talked concerning the really bonkers promoting value of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine ($900 millionnnnnnnnnnnnn) when it occurred and scratched our heads about it. It would appear we weren’t mistaken to take action. Rumors are that the e book club-cum-production firm is dropping sufficient cash that an outdoor funding financial institution is coming in to see what could be carried out. And typically, exterior funding banks don’t actually repair a lot as chop or promote. Sometimes each. The story of Hello Sunshine, no matter occurs to it from right here on out, shall be an enchanting instance of what Peak TV wrought.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower Turns 25

I used to be juuuuuuust exterior the goal age for Perks when it got here out in 1999, however I do know for lots of e book nerds of a sure age, it is a basic. The movie adaptation was fairly good (terrific solid actually). Chobsky might have been John Green earlier than John Green was, however a twenty-year break between books has a means of killing the vibe.