Open Book with David Steinberger

About Open Book with David Steinberger

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/

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media

Category

arts · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Jul 2024

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

41 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026

   The Wisdom & Worries of William Shatner

   William Shatner—the actor best-known for playing Captain James T. Kirk on the original Star Trek television series—joins the podcast with his co-author Robert Sharenow, Emmy-winning television writer and producer, to discuss his new book Wisdom & Worries: Reflections on Life, Death, and Everything in Between. Part memoir, part philosophy, the book pairs personal reflections with verse on the subjects that have occupied Shatner’s extraordinary life: faith and identity, love and memory, space and mortality, and “not going quietly into that good night.”

2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Do One Thing Really Well with Michael Tamblyn

   Michael Tamblyn is CEO of Kobo, the global ebook and e-reader platform owned by Rakuten and headquartered in Toronto. In this episode, Michael talks about his unusual journey to bookselling, how Kobo competes against Amazon, Apple, and Google in ebook markets around the world, and the surprising truth about who reads ebooks—and what it means for the future of digital publishing.

3. 

   10 Sept 2026

   The North Star with Sanyu Dillon

   Sanyu Dillon is President of the Random House Publishing Group and the first publisher ever inducted into the American Marketing Association’s Marketing Hall of Fame. In this episode, she discusses her career, the inside story about recent bestsellers like Project Hail Mary and Belle Burden’s Strangers, and what has—and hasn't—changed in how publishers market a book.

Who has been a guest on Open Book with David Steinberger

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Sam Schwartz
• Greg Greeley
• Gayle Feldman
• Paul Yamazaki
• Perminder Mann

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

19 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

35

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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Books guests

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