New Books Network
Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck". Historian Marshall Poe founded New Books in History in 2007, and the New Books Network in 2011; in 2014 resigning his tenured professorship to work on it full time.[1] The network describes itself as "a consortium of podcasts dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing serious authors to serious audiences."[2] At first, Poe himself interviewed the authors of new non-fiction books for the website that was then called New Books in History. At the beginning of 2020, NBN had 104 channels, publishing 60 interviews a week, with over a million downloads a month. In December 2021 NBN podcasts were downloaded 4.77 million times. Listennotes rank NBN in the top 1% of podcasts worldwide.[3] NBN had published more than 9,500 interviews by the end of 2020.[4] devoted to new books on subjects ranging from African-American studies and economics to philosophy and sports.[5] Poe invites volunteers who are knowledgeable about a subject to conduct "radio interviews" with authors of new books in that subject area. "It's premised on the idea that while most people won't read serious books, they might listen to the authors of those books talk about the ideas in them," Poe told an interviewer. "Reading is hard and inconvenient; listening is easy and convenient. We interview authors with new books, make 'radio shows' out of them, and distribute them on the web as podcasts." In August, 2020, the NBN closed a seed funding round with a group of international investors."[6] In October 2020 NBN starting producing a podcast series in partnership with Princeton University Press called the Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast.[7] In 2021 NBN started a series with Oxford University Press called In Conversation: An OUP Podcast.,[8] and launched in Spanish. In 2022 The New Books Network announced that was going to start paying its hosts, and engaged former BBC World Service journalist Owen Bennett-Jones to produce a series called "The Future of".[9] In 2022 NBN started a series with Cambridge University Press called Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast,[10] and a partnership with Columbia University Press called "Off the Page".[11] In August 2022 NBN announced that it had published its 15,000th podcast, stating that this made it "one of the largest podcast networks in the world".[12]
References[edit]
- ↑ Nappi, Carla. "New Books in Media and Communication". New Books Network. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ↑ "New Books Network". Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ↑ "New Books Network".
- ↑ "Have Content will Travel: Author-Interview Podcasts for Scholarly Books". 29 August 2018. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ↑ "Become a Host". Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ↑ "New Books Network". No Shortage of Work. Archived from the original on 2014-05-29. Retrieved 2014-07-13. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast". Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ "In Conversation: An OUP Podcast". Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ "Owen Bennett-Jones". Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ↑ "Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast". Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ "Off the Page: A Columbia UP Podcast". Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ "Largest podcast network in the world?". Retrieved 2020-10-15.
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