Special Guest: Ben Fox is the founder of Shepherd, a unique book discovery site popular with readers and authors alike. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Ben about his background and career as a serial entrepreneur, his early love of books, traveling and being an early digital nomad, found Shepherd and helping authors and readers discover each other, some of the dark sides of recommendation systems and how to humanize them, and at the end, they talk about the book publishing industry generally.

This interview was recorded on August 11, 2022.

The full audio for the interview is here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/leanpub_podcasts/FM210-Ben-Fox-2022-08-11.mp3. You can subscribe to the Frontmatter podcast in iTunes here https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/leanpub-podcast/id517117137 or add the podcast URL directly here: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/leanpub-podcast/id517117137.

This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.