New Books Network

The New Books Network (NBN) is a podcast network featuring interviews with scholars, researchers, and writers about their new books. Most of the books the NBN covers are non-fiction and published by university or independent scholarly presses. The mission of the NBN is public education. The NBN is the largest book-focused podcast enterprise in the world. It features over 130 "organic" author-interview podcasts ("New Books in...") produced in-house and over 100 "hosted" podcasts produced by university presses, academic institutes, and scholars.

The NBN publishes 70 episodes per week and has published over 29,000 episodes to date, all of which are permanently accessible for free on the NBN website. The NBN reaches 200,000 listeners monthly; those listeners download approximately one million episodes each month. The NBN has listeners in every country in the world except North Korea. 70% are in the anglophone world; 30% elsewhere. The listenership is highly educated: 90% are college graduates and 53% have advanced degrees. The network was founded by Marshall Poe and is staffed by a small editorial team.

The NBN's interviews are conducted by area experts, most of whom are graduate students and professors. The NBN operates under a viewpoint-neutral editorial policy, meaning it does not endorse the content of the books featured; rather, it provides a platform for authors to present their work to the public. The network maintains partnerships with 40 university presses and 20 scholarly institutes. American sociologist Laura Stark has characterized the network as 'a monumental success of slow accretion.'