Nobel Prize

October 7, 2017

October 7, 2017

This week: a manuscript of the Book of Mormon has sold for $35 million, what is the Nobel committee looking for, Romance reading is on the rise and Romance readers aren’t happy with the New York Times, Kazuo Ishiguro is your 2017 Nobel Laureate, the copyright fight continues among scientific publications, and U.S. media organizations may be banned in Russia. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.

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October 30, 2016

October 30, 2016

This week: Bob Dylan isn’t returning the Swedish Academy’s calls, Did Shakespeare have a cowriter?, an American has won the Man Booker Prize, Ether Books is for sale, Toni Morrison has received a lifetime achievement award, Author Toby Young has taken a job in the British Government, and Bob Dylan finally called Sweden.  All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.

This episode is sponsored by the 2016 aois21 annual, now available to download from the aois21 market, iBooks, Google Play, and Amazon as well as Will This Be on The Final?, the new poetry collection by Bianca Palmisano, now available as an eBook everywhere eBooks are sold.

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October 16, 2016

October 16, 2016

This week: does the UK’s education policies threaten creativity in the wake of BREXIT?, HarperCollins is aiming to work with self publishers, a new study shows books can help bridge political divides, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded and we’re still shocked, there are four more movies coming from the Harry Potter universe, Hachette is reviewing its royalty system, and a Bangladeshi Publisher has received the PEN Pinter Prize.  All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.

This episode is sponsored by the 2016 aois21 annual, now available to download from the aois21 market, iBooks, Google Play, and Amazon as well as HIVE: Battle at the Dog Star, the next novella in the HIVE series by James D. King, available to download everywhere.

Available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Podomatic, and media.aois21.com.

For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter.

You can now support this podcast either by buying an ad through Fiverr, or on the aois21 page on Patreon.

If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

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