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I have been doing some reminiscing recently as I muse (well, if that is not an affected word, I am not sure what is) about the 25-year history of Reading Group Guides. A big change that has happened is access to authors. When we first started The Book Report Network in 1996, unless you saw an author on tour, all you knew about them was what you read on the book's back jacket. Something like, “She resides in San Francisco with her husband and her dog.” Sometimes the husband and dog were named. Some authors appeared on morning television nationally or wherever they were locally. Yes, remember those local morning shows that were in most big markets?