Welcome home, true-believers. Let's get down to business this brand new year. I hope you had a safe and happy holiday.
Ed Champion will open the 2007 Edition of The Publishing Spot, exploring (along with a couple blowhards) this Book TV segment about the New York Times Book Review's podcast--revealing the Top Secret Recipe to the award-winning Bat Segundo Show in the process.
"Award-winning?" you may ask, "He didn't win an award!" But you know what, you need to read about Kevin Sample's first-annual Power Lit-Blogger award.
"Amazingly, they have the authors come into the cube-laden NYTBR office or do the interviews by telephone. Well, that explains the lifeless quality of the podcast. And the podcast then gets outsourced to the QXR studio. (In other words, Mick doesn’t even do the cleanup.) By contrast, The Bat Segundo Show is researched, conducted and edited by me, one guy (save, of course, Mr. Segundo), who already has a full-time job and isn’t even in New York."
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