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Kali has been watching Agatha All Along and reconnecting with the fun parts of a living fandom. Annie, meanwhile, can’t get over how quiet it is and how good they sound in their new studio! Shout out to the Baltimore County Public Library for having pro studios available for patrons. Support your public libraries, friends!

Some of our sources for today’s show:

• Green and lean! HC makes small changes with big impact: https://www.fastcompany.com/91071102/harper-collins-made-a-tiny-tweak-to-its-book-design-and-has-saved-thousands-of-trees-as-a-result

• Dolly Parton’s Dollywood is amazing at recycling: https://www.visitmysmokies.com/blog/attractions-pigeon-forge/why-no-recycling-bins-dollywood/
• Anyway, here are how your favorite authors voted in the "Best books of the century (so far)" roundup: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/authors-top-books-21st-century.html
• Absolutely WILD merch idea: https://www.billboard.com/culture/product-recommendations/walmart-spicy-books-hot-sauce-yulin-kuang-buy-online-1235748106/
• Why the deals for ongoing content licensing really matter: https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2024/04/07/tech-companies-find-the-edge-of-the-internet
• The numbers are in: people buy books: https://countercraft.substack.com/p/yes-people-do-buy-books
• A quick run through the latest stats in book publishing: https://kathleenschmidt.substack.com/p/what-do-cost-saving-measures-sales
• Insights from the book industry on where we are now and where we’re headed: https://bookriot.com/publishers-weekly-us-book-show/
• Man, remember when Google’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil “? Now they platform pirated books, ban real ones, and threaten to punish those who complain: https://publishingperspectives.com/2024/06/major-publishers-sue-google-over-ads-for-pirated-ebooks/
• Celebrations: These indie bookstores are fighting the system: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/books/counterculture-bookstores-social-movements.html

Thank you so much for listening! We hope to be coming into your ears much more often now that we have a dedicated studio space. We really appreciate everyone sticking with us.

00:00 Intro 06:15 Harper Collins Green and Lean 10:16 NYT Century’s Best Books 14:06 Spicy Marketing 17:51 Robots Asking Nicely 27:45 Wait, Do People Still Buy Books? 33:46 Google, Your Evil is Showing 37:20 Indie Bookstores Are Community Hubs 39:04 Thanks for Listening