Comments on: NPR Books Watch (3/8-3/14)

By: The Publicity Hound’s Blog » NPR Books Watch Contest goal: Get more authors on NPR

Mon, 19 May 2008 05:21:55 +0000

[...] the way book publicist Yen Cheong calculates it, the chances of an author landing an interview on National Public Radio is 15 times harder than [...]

By: John

John — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:28:31 +0000

Not to minimize the work that you do, which is appreciated, but your comment, Ed, would only be true if you offered another 23 hours of podcast each day with other news and commentary.

By: Growing Pains for the Litblog : Edward Champion’s Filthy Habits

Growing Pains for the Litblog : Edward Champion’s Filthy Habits — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:03:16 +0000

[...] traditional outlets. (To get a sense of perspective on what this means, as observed last week by The Book Publicity Blog, collectively, all of the national NPR programs interview a mere 600 authors a year. Thus, there [...]

By: ed

ed — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:22:52 +0000

This is extraordinarily interesting from a producer’s standpoint. Because I’m quite shocked to learn that I am almost single-handedly doing the work of 1/6th of NPR with Bat Segundo.