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Open Book with David Steinberger

Open Book with David Steinberger

By: Open Road Integrated Media
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Conversations with publishers, editors, authors, journalists, thinkers, executives and other makers of culture, hosted by David Steinberger, CEO of Open Road Integrated Media and Chairman of the National Book Foundation. https://openroadintegratedmedia.com/podcast/Copyright 2025 Open Road Integrated Media Art Career Success Economics Literary History & Criticism
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  • "This Could Be the Best Book I’ve Ever Read" with Sally Kim
    Jul 10 2025

    Sally Kim is the President and Publisher of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group that includes the flagship imprint originally founded in 1837, with a catalog that boasts authors like JD Salinger, Louisa May Alcott, Malcolm Gladwell, Nelson Mandela and David Sedaris, to name a few. Sally’s journey from intern to editor and then publisher is both fascinating and comprehensive—she is one of the few people in the industry to work at all of the Big 5 publishing houses.


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    35 mins
  • "A Book Bought in a Good Bookstore is a Better Book" with James Daunt
    Jun 19 2025

    James Daunt is a busy man, leading three iconic booksellers on two continents. In this episode, he shares his journey from founding a single independent bookstore in London in 1990 to rescuing and turning around the two largest bookstore chains in the English-speaking world: Waterstones in the UK and Barnes & Noble in the US.

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    29 mins
  • How to Sleep at Night with Elizabeth Harris
    May 29 2025

    Journalist Elizabeth Harris reports on books and the publishing industry for The New York Times. She shares her 16-year career journey from clerk to staff writer, her thoughts on the book industry, and the process of writing her first novel, How to Sleep at Night.

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    20 mins

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