How Heather Marshall brings readers into places of the past
Michael Tamblyn spoke with novelist Heather Marshall. She is a writer of historical fiction, including her 2022 debut bestselling novel Looking for Jane and 2024's with The Secret History of Audrey James. Heather Marshall's new book is Liberty Street. It's the story of a young journalist's quest t…
Innovating Together: Connecting as a global organization
While Canada is a hub for creative potential and innovation, we're also known for exporting our best business ideas. Is there more to that story? What will it mean for all companies to become more 'global' in the future? In this episode recorded for Global Ivey Day 2021, host Mazi Raz, MBA ’05, PhD…
Booktalking - All about Shy Girl and whether AI in publishing is more like plutonium or salt
Hosts Michael Tamblyn and Nathan Maharaj dove deep on the controversy around the book Shy Girl, which was cancelled by its publisher who alleged it was largely AI-generated.
Links on Shy Girl:
The video from January 2026 that seems to have led to Shy Girl's cancellation: i'm pretty sure this bo…
Natalie Zina Walschots on good bosses and bad guys [encore]
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This week we're bringing you a conversation Michael Tamblyn had in 2021 with Natalie Zina Walschots about her extremely fun novel called Hench. It's about a world where superheroes are out there saving the day in super ways, while villains, who are a lot like you and me, run organizations bent on t…
News: Rakuten Kobo Took a "Book Community First" Approach to AI — and Rejected 45 Percent of Submissions
On this episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Dan Holloway reports on a revealing piece by Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn, who explains why Kobo rejected 45 percent of self-published submissions in 2025 — most of them suspected AI-generated — and frames the decision as a "book community first" ch…
LIVE from Ever After, with Julia McKay & Kristine Winters
In the spirit of "Christmas in July," we're presenting a special live episode of Kobo in Conversation from the Toronto International Festival of Authors' inaugural Ever After, the romance book festival. This was recorded back in November 2025, and though it deals with some extremely seasonal themes…
Booktalking - All about StoryGraph!
Nadia Odunayo didn't set out to create the leading competitor to social reading app GoodReads. But somewhere along the way while building her website & app The StoryGraph she discovered that for a lot of folks that's exactly what she'd done.
In this episode of our Booktalking series, Kobo in Conve…
Is TJ Klune a little bit better every day?
Michael Tamblyn spoke with TJ Klune, author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, and the Extraordinaries YA series, to name just a few of his many books. TJ's latest book is We Burned So Bright. It's a story about a couple, Don and Rodney, who set out on a road trip to lay …
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 tr…
The future of connecting with readers – with Michael Tamblyn & Ralf Biesemeier | LIVE at #fbm26
On the third day of #fbm26, we discuss what publishers can do differently about connecting with readers, with a focus on those who are 55 and older. Our guests in the studio have been observing and analyzing reader behavior for decades, and care deeply about the decline in readership and what the p…
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