Klout scores, The Avengers, and the future of e-book pricing on Slate’s Culture Gabfest

Culture Gabfest: The Avengers, the future of e-book pricing, and Klout

Culture Gabfest: The Avengers, the future of e-book pricing, and Klout

Slate's weekly roundtable.
May 2 2012 11:35 AM

The Culture Gabfest, "Kablammo! Snappy Rejoinder" Edition

The Avengers, the future of e-book pricing, and rating your online clout.

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In this week's Gabfest, our critics discuss Joss Whedon’s summer blockbuster, The Avengers. Also, they chat with Slate’s Matthew Yglesias about the future of e-books and the publishing industry. Plus, Slate’s Seth Stevenson discusses how the company Klout is now tracking our online clout.

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The Culture Gabfest weekly endorsements:

Dana’s Pick: Turner Classic Movies True Crime Series.

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Seth’s Pick: Solomon Burke.

Stephen’s Pick: “Mad Girls Love Song” by Sylvia Plath.

Outro: “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love” by Solomon Burke.

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Stephen Metcalf is Slate’s critic at large. He is working on a book about the 1980s.

Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic.

Julia Turner, the former editor in chief of Slate, is a regular on Slate’s Culture Gabfest podcast.