The Kindle Chronicles: Recent Episodes
Len Edgerly
A weekly podcast about the Kindle and eBooks with in-depth conversations with guests--authors, technology experts, book industry analysts, Amazon execs, educators, agents, readers, and more.
Author of The Day Makes the Year
Links
The Day Makes the Year (Makes a Life): Transform Your Work and Life with One-Day Success by Doug Fleener
Doug’s web site
See You at the Top: 25th Anniversary Edition by Zig Ziglar
The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage by Richard Rohr
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Kindle Chronicles staff at Alexa+ Event in NYC
Links
Alexa+
The Outsiders
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost
Meet the New Alexa
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Author of A Devil Went Down to Georgia
Photo by Matt H. King
Links
A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton by Deb Miller Landau
Deb Miller Landau’s web site
Simon & Schuster page
“29 Best True Crime Books That’ll Make You Want to Sleep with the Lights on” (Oprah Daily) - August 28, 2024
YouTube Interviews with Deb Miller Landau: KATU Lifestyle, Georgia Center for the Book, Once Upon a Crime Podcast
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Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Links
James McQuivey’s Forrester Research page
ChatGPT
How to create custom GPT’s (YouTube)
Delphi AI Clone
Grok by xAI
NotebookLM
Humane AI Pin
Rabbit R1
Claude by Anthropic
Apple Vision Pro
Apple Vision Pro on eBay
Meta Quest 3 headset
Palm Pilot (Wikipedia)
To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter,
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Author of Lose Your Critic for Good: A Step-by-Step Process for Reclaiming Your Spirit
Links
Lose Your Critic for Good at Amazon (available for pre-order with release on January 14, 2025)
Practical Spirituality, Sue Erhart’s blog
Sue’s Practical Spirituality Podcast and Courses
1:1 Coaching with Sue
Valeria Teles’s interview with Sue at Fit for Joy (YouTube) - December 26, 2025
Sue’s interview with Lacey Jones on the Elevate the Individual podcast - September 28, 2025
Click here for YouTube version of this interview
To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter,
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New Kindle Colorsoft, Scribe, Paperwhite 12th Gen, and Basic
I will post this special episode of The Kindle Chronicles Tuesday October 16, 2024 at 9 a.m. EDT, when the embargo lifts on yesterday's Amazon briefing here in New York City.
Later I will update this page with links.
The big news is, at long last, a color Kindle. It is available for pre-order today for $279.99 with delivery October 30th.
There is also a new Kindle Scribe, available for pre-order today for $399.99 with delivery December 4th. It has some cool new annotation features and Generative AI smarts.
The "all-new" Paperwhite and basic Kindle are available for shipment today. Those changes are incremental but not trivial.
I'm glad to see Amazon's new head of devices and services, Panos Panay, is all in for the Kindle!
Technical Advisor for Amazon’s Worldwide Prime organization
Links
Amazon First Reads
Prime Reading
Amazon Pharmacy
Rx Pass
Amazon Photos
Rufus
“A Shopper’s Best Friend? Meet Rufus, Amazon’s New AI Helper” at Len’s Newsletter on Substack
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In this special episode of The Kindle Chronicles, my guest is ChatGPT. I had no idea I could use OpenAI's revolutionary AI assistant as a Thought Partner. That's how Peter Deng, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT uses the tool he leads.
So, on a tight deadline this morning at the Hampton Inn Capitol/University, I put together an "interview" with ChatGPT and recorded it. I left the gaps where my Thought Partner (TP) was thinking, illustrated on my iPhone as a cloud pulsing, so you will hear how long TP took to come up with pretty amazing answers.
SXSW is going to make Peter's talk available on demand, but it's not up yet. I highly recommend that you watch it if you get the chance. He discusses safety issues, OpenAI's chaotic leadership crisis last year, and many other topics. John Constine of SignalFire, a venture capital firm, did an outstanding job peppering Deng with questions and then summarizing the entire one-hour conversation at the end.
I took notes in a Substack draft post using Vision Pro during the keynote. I plan to tidy them up and send them out, perhaps during my layover at DFW.
This was my best South By ever, after nearly 15 years of covering the event. I hope you enjoy the show!
At left, Founder of New Things Lab
I spoke by Zoom today with Nyckle Sijtsma in Delft, Netherlands, about his inspiring design company. I discovered New Things via an Instagram ad for the Memo White Board, a product I truly love. You will hear all about it in this conversation, along with Nyckle's personal mission to "help people think clearly."
Links:
The Memo White Board, $69
My YouTube video demonstrating the Memo - February 27, 2024
YouTube video of this interview
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Author of Daybreak: A Novel
I spoke with Matt Gallagher by Zoom on February 8, 2024, in advance of the release of his new novel, which was released by Simon & Schuster on February 20.
It's a powerful story set in Ukraine at the start of a war that continues into its third year.
Highly recommended!
Author of Upstairs Delicatessen:
On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating,
and Eating While Reading
Photo by Richard Bowditch
YouTube video of the interview
Links
“Inside the NYT Book Review: Pamela Paul & Dwight Garner” (YouTube)
Garner’s Quotations: A Modern Miscellany by Dwight Garner (2020)
Dwight Garner’s book reviews in The New York Times
To the Finland Station: A Study in the Acting and Writing of History (FSG) Classics by Edmund Wilson
“A Book Critic as Wild for Food as He Is for Literature” by Jennifer Reese at The New York Times Book Review - October 24, 2023
Film reviews in The New Yorker by Anthony Lane
Politics columns by Maureen Dowd in The New York Times
Books by Cree LeFavour at Amazon.com
“Jayne Anne Phillips Finds Anguish and Asylum in Civil War America” by Dwight Garner at The New York Times - September 23, 2023
Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips (Buy This Book!)
Joni Mitchell - Blue (Full Album) at YouTube
Joni Mitchell Court and Spark album Part 1 and Part 2 (YouTube)
Books at Amazon.com by Sheila Heti, Otessa Moshfegh and Catherine Lacey
“Review: ‘Martial Bliss,’ a Loving Memoir About a Bookstore for Military Buffs” by Dwight Garner at The New York Times - July 30, 2015
Martial Bliss: The Story of The Military Bookman by Margaretta Barton Colt (not available on Kindle)
Columns by William F. Buckley Jr. published in National Review
Kindle Scribe
Books at Amazon.com by the poets Kay Ryan, August Kleinzahler, Louise Glück, and James Fenton
“Hunger games: A New York critic’s gluttony for books and food” by Adam Begley at the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) - November 3, 2023
If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 10 a.m. Eastern Time.
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Author of To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
Links
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s website
Neil deGrasse Tyson on The Late Show with Steven Colbert (2023)
Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - March 2, 1978 (YouTube)
StarTalk Media Network
Hayden Planetarium
“Shot in the Arm,” a documentary scheduled for release in November, with Neil deGrasse Tyson as Executive Director
If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 10 a.m. Eastern Time.
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Podcaster doing back flip into a black hole after
interviewing Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
Links
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s website
Neil deGrasse Tyson on The Late Show with Steven Colbert (2023)
Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - March 2, 1978 (YouTube)
Note: To find out what really happened to the lost interview, be sure to download the NEXT episode of The Kindle Chronicles, coming to the nets later tonight.
If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 10 a.m. Eastern Time.
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(Graphic for this episode created by Len Edgerly with OpenAI's DALL-E 2)
Author of The Great Transition
Links
Nick Fuller Googins’s web site
Elements Books Coffee Beer in Biddeford, Maine
Alice Eliot Dark
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Rutgers Newark MFA in Creative Writing
Nuuk, Greenland
Green New Deal (Wikipedia)
“In historic upset, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unseats 4th ranking House Democrat Joe Crowley” by Lee Harris at ABC News - June 27, 2018
The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change by Geoff Dembicki
“New report shows just 100 companies are source of over 70% of emissions” at CDP - July 10, 2017
If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash briefing.” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 10 a.m. Eastern Time.
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At the closing reception yesterday at HQ2
Links
Full video of Amazon’s New Products Event (YouTube)
Overview of Amazon new devices and features at AboutAmazon.com - September 20, 2023
James McQuivey of Forrester Research
“Previewing the future of Alexa” by Daniel Rausch at AboutAmazon.com - September 20, 2023
"Meet Len Edgerly, Kindle superfan and host of the popular Kindle Chronicles podcast" by Tomas Kellner at AboutAmazon.com - December 2, 2022
If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.
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Author of Hope: A Novel
Photo © George Baier
Links
Andrew Ridker's website
New York Times review of Hope.
Interview with Andrew on WGBH Radio Boston
The Altruists by Andrew Ridker
Groundskeeping: A Novel by Lee Cole
Seasonal Quartet by Ali Smith
My Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa devices
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Author of
Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier
Links
Kevin Kelly’s website
Recomendo newsletter
“The Future Will be Shaped by Optimists” - Kevin Kelly TED talk (YouTube)
Vanishing Asia: Three Volume Set: West, Central and East by Kevin Kelly
AI Image Generators: DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion
Kevin Kelly on Twitter
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If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.
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A Rainy Day on Sanibel Island
"4 new features to try out on your Kindle Scribe" by Christian de Looper at AboutAmazon.com
Click here for the latest Kindle Scribe software update, 16.1.13.
Release Notes for 16.1.13
Sanibel Journal podcast
Click here for audio file of this episode
Sample new brush tools for Scribe
eWritable post on today's Kindle Scribe update
Kindle Scribe at Amazon.com
Kindle software updates at Amazon.com
Click here for Kindle Scribe software update 5.16.1.2
Click here to download audio file
Author of
How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times
Links
YouTube video of this interview with Chris Bailey
How to Calm Your Mind - Audible Version, narrated by the author
“How to Train Your Mind: Exploring the Productivity Benefits of Meditation” by Chris Bailey (An Audible Original, 2021)
The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy by Chris Bailey (2016)
Hyperfocus: How to Manage Your Attention in a World of Distraction by Chris Bailey (2018)
Books at Amazon.com and YouTube videos by Ajahn Brahm
Chris Bailey on TKC 658 - March 13, 2021
“Burnout with Dr. Christina Maslach” - University of Minnesota Extension
Other YouTube interviews with Chis Bailey by Chris Williamson and Chase Jarvis.
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If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.
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My Grandson showing chemistry notes on his Kindle Scribe
Links
Kindle Scribe at Amazon.com
How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times by Chris Bailey
The Joy of Sticky Notes - YouTube video by Len Edgerly
Quantum Radio by A. G. Riddle - available for pre-order with delivery March 2, 2023
If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.
Sanibel Journal is my new podcast about the rebuilding of Sanibel Island after the devastation of Hurricane Ian.
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Me and My Scribe
Links
Kindle Scribes for sale at discounted prices
How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times by Chris Bailey
Quantum Radio by A. G. Riddle - available for pre-order with shipment March 2, 2023
If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.
Coming soon: Sanibel Journal, my new podcast about the rebuilding of Sanibel Island after the devastation of Hurricane Ian.
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Me and My Kindle Scribe
Click here to order Kindle Scribe!
Necessary Errors: A Novel by Caleb Crain
Note: I plan to upload a video of this episode of the podcast, recorded while I was creating the podcast audio. If I succeed, you will be able to find it in my YouTube Channel.
Next week, from Sanibel FL, I plan to create a video comparison of the Kindle Scribe, reMarkable 2, Kobo Elipsa, and Boox Air Note by Onyx.
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If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.
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Amazon Vice President - World Wide Publishing
Links
Click here to order Kindle Scribe!
Amazon Publishing
Kindle Direct Publishing
Kindle Vella
Comixology
AmazonCrossing
Amazon press release introducing Kindle Scribe
Books by Andy Weir
Lost in Time by A. G. Riddle
Amazon First Reads
Reminders of Him: A Novel by Colleen Hoover
Books by Melinda Leigh
Amazon Book Clubs
Piece by Piece: How I Built My Life (No Instructions Required) by David Aguilar
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
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If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.
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Kevin Keith, VP of Amazon Devices, shows me a Kindle Scribe
Links
Click here to order Kindle Scribe!
Amazon press releases introducing Kindle Scribe, Halo Rise, and four new Echo devices plus upgrades to Echo Studio Audio.
AboutAmazon.com
Poetry books by John Ashbury at Amazon.com
If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.
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Darlene and Sophie compare three Kindle models
Click here to order Kindle Scribe or here to order the new basic Kindle.
Follow the rebuilding efforts on Sanibel Island at MySanibel.com
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If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.
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Vice President - Amazon Devices
Links
Click here to order Kindle Scribe!
Amazon press releases introducing Kindle Scribe, Halo Rise, and four new Echo devices plus upgrades to Echo Studio Audio.
Kevin Keith on TKC 533 October 19, 2018
“Amazon Wants to Cocoon You With ‘Ambient Intelligence’” by Steven Levy at Wired - September 28, 2022
“Amazon introduces Halo Rise” at Amazon’s blog - September 29, 2022
Click here to request an invitation to buy Halo Rise - $140
Follow the rebuilding efforts on Sanibel Island at MySanibel.com
Sanibel City Manager Dana Souza on The Today Show - September 30, 2022
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If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.
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Amazon’s New Kindle 11th Generation
Links
Click here to buy the new Kindle for $99.99 - ships October 12, 2022
Kevin Keith on TKC 533 October 19, 2018 - New Kindle Paperwhite!
Steven King at launch of Kindle 2 - February 10, 2009 (YouTube)
Full Press Release:
Introducing Kindle and Kindle Kids: Now with 300 ppi High-Resolution Display, USB-C Charging, and 2X Storage
The lightest and most compact Kindle provides a glare-free, 6-inch, high-resolution display, up to six weeks of battery life and USB-C charging, adjustable front light, dark mode, and 16 GB of storage—all for only $99.99
Kindle Kids comes with a kid-friendly cover, one year of Amazon Kids+ providing unlimited access to thousands of age-appropriate books, and a two-year worry-free guarantee—for only $119.99
A free, four-month Kindle Unlimited membership is included with Kindle for a limited time, offering access to over 2 million titles, thousands of audiobooks, and more
SEATTLE—September 13, 2022—Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the next generation of Kindle—the lightest and smallest Kindle. Starting at just $99.99, the new Kindle combines premium features with an affordable price, including a 300 ppi high-resolution 6-inch display, USB-C charging, longer battery life of up to six weeks, and room for thousands of books with twice the storage. The same features also come with Kindle Kids, which includes a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids+ that provides kids with unlimited access to thousands of books. Kindle and Kindle Kids pre-orders start today and will begin shipping October 12. Learn more at http://www.amazon.com/kindle.
“With a high-resolution display that delivers three-times more pixels than our previous base Kindle, USB-C charging, 16GB of storage, and built-in adjustable front light, the new ultralight Kindle is the latest example of how we continue to bring premium features to our entry-level devices for even more customers to enjoy,” said Kevin Keith, vice president of Amazon Devices and Services. “And since we launched Kindle Kids three years ago, kids have logged nearly 3 billion minutes reading on Kindle devices. The new Kindle Kids provides an even better reading experience to help kids become lifelong readers.”
All-New High-Resolution Display
Kindle and Kindle Kids feature an all-new 6-inch, glare-free, 300 ppi high-resolution display with three-times more pixels for laser-quality text and sharp images that read like paper. Dark mode and adjustable front light provide a comfortable reading experience in all conditions, including bright sunlight or no light at all. The device comes packed with customer favorites like X-Ray, which provides important details about people or places mentioned in a book, and a built-in dictionary to quickly look up any word. Simplified setup on the Kindle app for iOS and Android offers an option to register your device in fewer steps and to jump into a book even faster.
Lightest and Most Compact Kindle
Kindle and Kindle Kids are the lightest and most compact Kindle models available—carry them in your pocket and comfortably read one-handed for even longer. The device’s longer battery life of up to six weeks maximizes the time you can spend reading, and the USB-C port makes charging more effortless than ever. The all-new Kindle comes with 16GB of storage—twice the storage of the previous generation—enough to hold thousands of titles, so you can take your library with you.
More for Young Readers
Since the first Kindle Kids device debuted three years ago, kids have logged nearly 3 billion minutes of reading time on their Kindle devices, with no distractions on their devices from games, videos, social media, or apps. In fact, when the average kid reader sits down with their Kindle, they read more than an hour a day, making Kindle Kids the perfect reading companion for kids between 7-13 years old.
Every Kindle Kids comes with a one-year subscription of Amazon Kids+, providing unlimited access to thousands of books, from timeless classics to newer, popular page-turners. Kids can explore and discover their favorite titles from a large selection of content, opening new opportunities to fall in love with reading. The Amazon Kids+ experience on Kindle Kids includes:
· Latest hits and award-winners: Explore popular titles like Divergent, Artemis Fowl, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid; books from series like Big Nate, Percy Jackson, Enchanted Forest Chronicles, and Harry Potter; and titles that have won the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Award, Children’s Choice Award, and other awards, all in the Amazon Kids+ library.
· Add from your library: Get instant access to new releases and bestsellers, plus over a million titles, each $2.99 or less to add even more stories to your child’s Kindle Kids library.
· Switch between reading and listening: When kids want to listen to a book instead of reading one, they can use Bluetooth-enabled speakers or headphones with Audible. With Amazon Kids+, hundreds of Audible books are available, including gaming and tween books like Escape from the Overworld, classics like The Secret Garden and Peter Pan, and Audible Originals like Interview with the Robot and The Mystwick School of Musicraft.
The Amazon Parent Dashboard for Kindle Kids also provides complete control for parents to set reading and bedtime schedules. Kids can request books for parents and guardians to add to their library, while literacy tools like Word Wise and Vocabulary Builder assist with showing definitions of unfamiliar words and enriching vocabulary through flashcards. With the lightweight design, kid-friendly features, and longer battery life, Kindle Kids makes reading fun, easy, and convenient.
The World’s Best eBook Store
All Kindle devices come with instant access to the world’s best eBook store, which includes:
Massive selection—Discover millions of books, including the latest best sellers on Amazon Charts and reading recommendations from the Amazon Book Review.
Kindle Unlimited—Get unlimited access to an ever-growing selection of over 2 million eBooks, thousands of audiobooks, and more. For a limited time, Kindle will come with a free four-month Kindle Unlimited membership.
Amazon Original Stories—Read or listen to binge-worthy short fiction and nonfiction from best-selling authors, acclaimed storytellers, and new voices including Dean Koontz, Mindy Kaling, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Andy Weir, all included at no additional cost for Prime and Kindle Unlimited members.
A diverse set of voices: Access a variety of stories from millions of self-published authors around the world with Kindle Direct Publishing.
Additionally, Prime members can read from a rotating selection of thousands of books, magazines, and more—at no additional cost to their Prime membership.
Designed with Sustainability in Mind
The all-new Kindle and Kindle Kids were designed with sustainability in mind and carry the Climate Pledge Friendly badge, acknowledging further reduction in carbon emissions from previous product generations. Both devices were thoughtfully sourced and built with 90% recycled magnesium. Plus, following our goal to make Amazon device packaging 100% recyclable by 2023, for the first time ever, Kindle device packaging is 100% recyclable in the U.S. and is also made of 100% wood fiber-based materials from responsibly managed forests or recycled sources. In addition, Kindle accessory covers follow suit with packaging made from 99% wood fiber-based materials. Amazon continues to reduce impact on the planet through decreasing waste and providing more-sustainable options, and our efforts with Kindle and Kindle Kids are no different.
Pricing and Availability
The all-new Kindle will be available starting at $99.99 in 16GB and in Black or Denim colors. New fabric covers for Kindle will be available in Black, Rose, Denim, and Dark Emerald.
Kindle Kids will be available starting at $119.99 in 16GB in Black. Customers can select from three kid-friendly cover designs: Space Whale, Unicorn Valley, and Ocean Explorer. Each Kindle Kids device comes with a two-year, worry-free guarantee and one year of Amazon Kids+, an award-winning, all-in-one kid-friendly content service with thousands of ad-free books, games, videos, apps, and Alexa Skills from brands like Disney, LEGO, and National Geographic. On Kindle Kids, Amazon Kids+ provides access to thousands of age-appropriate books. Amazon Kids+ auto-renews after one year starting at $4.99 a month and can be canceled at any time. Both devices are available today for pre-order http://www.amazon.com/kindle.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth’s Best Employer, and Earth’s Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.
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If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.
Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.
Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
Amazon’s New Kindle 11th Generation
Links
Click here to buy the new Kindle for $99.99 - ships October 12, 2022
Kevin Keith on TKC 533 October 19, 2018 - New Kindle Paperwhite!
Steven King at launch of Kindle 2 - February 10, 2009 (YouTube)
Full Press Release:
Introducing Kindle and Kindle Kids: Now with 300 ppi High-Resolution Display, USB-C Charging, and 2X Storage
The lightest and most compact Kindle provides a glare-free, 6-inch, high-resolution display, up to six weeks of battery life and USB-C charging, adjustable front light, dark mode, and 16 GB of storage—all for only $99.99
Kindle Kids comes with a kid-friendly cover, one year of Amazon Kids+ providing unlimited access to thousands of age-appropriate books, and a two-year worry-free guarantee—for only $119.99
A free, four-month Kindle Unlimited membership is included with Kindle for a limited time, offering access to over 2 million titles, thousands of audiobooks, and more
SEATTLE—September 13, 2022—Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the next generation of Kindle—the lightest and smallest Kindle. Starting at just $99.99, the new Kindle combines premium features with an affordable price, including a 300 ppi high-resolution 6-inch display, USB-C charging, longer battery life of up to six weeks, and room for thousands of books with twice the storage. The same features also come with Kindle Kids, which includes a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids+ that provides kids with unlimited access to thousands of books. Kindle and Kindle Kids pre-orders start today and will begin shipping October 12. Learn more at http://www.amazon.com/kindle.
“With a high-resolution display that delivers three-times more pixels than our previous base Kindle, USB-C charging, 16GB of storage, and built-in adjustable front light, the new ultralight Kindle is the latest example of how we continue to bring premium features to our entry-level devices for even more customers to enjoy,” said Kevin Keith, vice president of Amazon Devices and Services. “And since we launched Kindle Kids three years ago, kids have logged nearly 3 billion minutes reading on Kindle devices. The new Kindle Kids provides an even better reading experience to help kids become lifelong readers.”
All-New High-Resolution Display
Kindle and Kindle Kids feature an all-new 6-inch, glare-free, 300 ppi high-resolution display with three-times more pixels for laser-quality text and sharp images that read like paper. Dark mode and adjustable front light provide a comfortable reading experience in all conditions, including bright sunlight or no light at all. The device comes packed with customer favorites like X-Ray, which provides important details about people or places mentioned in a book, and a built-in dictionary to quickly look up any word. Simplified setup on the Kindle app for iOS and Android offers an option to register your device in fewer steps and to jump into a book even faster.
Lightest and Most Compact Kindle
Kindle and Kindle Kids are the lightest and most compact Kindle models available—carry them in your pocket and comfortably read one-handed for even longer. The device’s longer battery life of up to six weeks maximizes the time you can spend reading, and the USB-C port makes charging more effortless than ever. The all-new Kindle comes with 16GB of storage—twice the storage of the previous generation—enough to hold thousands of titles, so you can take your library with you.
More for Young Readers
Since the first Kindle Kids device debuted three years ago, kids have logged nearly 3 billion minutes of reading time on their Kindle devices, with no distractions on their devices from games, videos, social media, or apps. In fact, when the average kid reader sits down with their Kindle, they read more than an hour a day, making Kindle Kids the perfect reading companion for kids between 7-13 years old.
Every Kindle Kids comes with a one-year subscription of Amazon Kids+, providing unlimited access to thousands of books, from timeless classics to newer, popular page-turners. Kids can explore and discover their favorite titles from a large selection of content, opening new opportunities to fall in love with reading. The Amazon Kids+ experience on Kindle Kids includes:
· Latest hits and award-winners: Explore popular titles like Divergent, Artemis Fowl, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid; books from series like Big Nate, Percy Jackson, Enchanted Forest Chronicles, and Harry Potter; and titles that have won the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Award, Children’s Choice Award, and other awards, all in the Amazon Kids+ library.
· Add from your library: Get instant access to new releases and bestsellers, plus over a million titles, each $2.99 or less to add even more stories to your child’s Kindle Kids library.
· Switch between reading and listening: When kids want to listen to a book instead of reading one, they can use Bluetooth-enabled speakers or headphones with Audible. With Amazon Kids+, hundreds of Audible books are available, including gaming and tween books like Escape from the Overworld, classics like The Secret Garden and Peter Pan, and Audible Originals like Interview with the Robot and The Mystwick School of Musicraft.
The Amazon Parent Dashboard for Kindle Kids also provides complete control for parents to set reading and bedtime schedules. Kids can request books for parents and guardians to add to their library, while literacy tools like Word Wise and Vocabulary Builder assist with showing definitions of unfamiliar words and enriching vocabulary through flashcards. With the lightweight design, kid-friendly features, and longer battery life, Kindle Kids makes reading fun, easy, and convenient.
The World’s Best eBook Store
All Kindle devices come with instant access to the world’s best eBook store, which includes:
Massive selection—Discover millions of books, including the latest best sellers on Amazon Charts and reading recommendations from the Amazon Book Review.
Kindle Unlimited—Get unlimited access to an ever-growing selection of over 2 million eBooks, thousands of audiobooks, and more. For a limited time, Kindle will come with a free four-month Kindle Unlimited membership.
Amazon Original Stories—Read or listen to binge-worthy short fiction and nonfiction from best-selling authors, acclaimed storytellers, and new voices including Dean Koontz, Mindy Kaling, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Andy Weir, all included at no additional cost for Prime and Kindle Unlimited members.
A diverse set of voices: Access a variety of stories from millions of self-published authors around the world with Kindle Direct Publishing.
Additionally, Prime members can read from a rotating selection of thousands of books, magazines, and more—at no additional cost to their Prime membership.
Designed with Sustainability in Mind
The all-new Kindle and Kindle Kids were designed with sustainability in mind and carry the Climate Pledge Friendly badge, acknowledging further reduction in carbon emissions from previous product generations. Both devices were thoughtfully sourced and built with 90% recycled magnesium. Plus, following our goal to make Amazon device packaging 100% recyclable by 2023, for the first time ever, Kindle device packaging is 100% recyclable in the U.S. and is also made of 100% wood fiber-based materials from responsibly managed forests or recycled sources. In addition, Kindle accessory covers follow suit with packaging made from 99% wood fiber-based materials. Amazon continues to reduce impact on the planet through decreasing waste and providing more-sustainable options, and our efforts with Kindle and Kindle Kids are no different.
Pricing and Availability
The all-new Kindle will be available starting at $99.99 in 16GB and in Black or Denim colors. New fabric covers for Kindle will be available in Black, Rose, Denim, and Dark Emerald.
Kindle Kids will be available starting at $119.99 in 16GB in Black. Customers can select from three kid-friendly cover designs: Space Whale, Unicorn Valley, and Ocean Explorer. Each Kindle Kids device comes with a two-year, worry-free guarantee and one year of Amazon Kids+, an award-winning, all-in-one kid-friendly content service with thousands of ad-free books, games, videos, apps, and Alexa Skills from brands like Disney, LEGO, and National Geographic. On Kindle Kids, Amazon Kids+ provides access to thousands of age-appropriate books. Amazon Kids+ auto-renews after one year starting at $4.99 a month and can be canceled at any time. Both devices are available today for pre-order http://www.amazon.com/kindle.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth’s Best Employer, and Earth’s Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.
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Author of Afterlives
Photo (c) Mark Pringle
Links
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
2021 Nobel Lecture by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel Prize in literature in 1954 for The Old Man and the Sea
Wole Soyinka, first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1986
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Author of the Gameknight999 Series
Links
Official Site of Minecraft
Markcheverton.com
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan
Wing Commander
The Giant’s Giant by Mark Cheverton
Fan Fiction page curated by Mark Cheverton
Jake’s recommendations: The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey and Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherland
Big Sale on Kindles!
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Author of The Last White Man
Photo by Jillian Edelstein
Links
Mohsin Hamid’s previous novels:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)
Moth Smoke (2012)
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013)
Exit West (2017)
“Mohsin Hamid Is Working Through Literature, From the Top” at The New York Times Book Review - July 31, 2022
Reviews of The Last White Man in The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Daily, Time, and New York Journal of Books.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist movie (Prime Video)
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Author of The Big Dark Sky
Photo by Douglas Sonders
Links
Dean Koontz’s web site
Other Thomas & Mercer novels by Dean Koontz:
Devoted (March, 2020)
Elsewhere (October, 2020)
The Other Emily (March, 2021)
Quicksilver (January, 2022)
My YouTube videos Unboxing Astro and Astro Grandkids
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Author of The Displacements: A Novel
Links
Bruce Holsinger’s web site
Other novels by Bruce Holsinger:
A Burnable Book
The Invention of Fire
The Gifted School
The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing by Mark McGurl
A Children’s Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet
Appleseed by Matt Bell
How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel by Sequoia Nagamatsu
How Beautiful We Were: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue
Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
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Author of Nora Goes Off Script
Photo by Jo Bryan Photography
Links
Annabel Monaghan’s web site
Publisher’s Weekly starred review of Nora Goes Off Script
Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?: Thoughts for moms and other tired people by Annabel Monghan
Leslie Mann
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Midcoast: A Novel by Adam White
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Author of Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting: A Novel
Links
Clare Pooley’s web page and Amazon Author Page
Mummy Was a Secret Drinker (blog)
The Sober Diaries: How One Woman Stopped Drinking and Started Living (2017)
The Authenticity Project: A Novel (2020)
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Author of Search: A Novel
Photo by Courtney Gregg
Links
Michelle Huneven’s web page
“You’ve Been Fictionalized!” by Michelle Huneven at The Paris Review - December 26, 2014
“Michelle Huneven, back on course” by Kimberly French at UUWorld - May 14, 2015
“Fixed: The rise of marriage therapy, and other dreams of human betterment” by Jill Lepore at The New Yorker - March 22, 2010
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Author of Housebreaking
Photo by Amaal Said
Links
Colleen Hubbard’s web page
Publishers Weekly review of Housebreaking
Housebreaking trailer (YouTube)
Next Week’s Guest:
Michelle Huneven, author of Search: A Novel, available for pre-order with release on April 26, 2022
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City Manager of Sanibel, Florida
Links
Sanibel web site
“City of Sanibel Welcomes New City Manager Dana Souza” - November 16, 2021
Dana Souza at Linkedin
The Sanibel Plan
My interview with Judith Zimomra, the retired City Manager of Sanibel, on March 27, 2021
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Penguin Random House Director of Satellite Media
Links Penguin Random House
The Love of My Life: A Novel by Rosie Walsh
Search by Michelle Huneven - available for pre-order with release April 26, 2022
Housebreaking by Colleen Hubbard - available for pre-order with release April 19, 2022
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Vice President and Director of Research at Forrester
Links
James McQuivey’s Forrester website
Living Manly newsletter by James McQuivey
Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche by Bruce Feirstein
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Author of One Step Too Far
Links
Lisa Gardner’s website
Book Tour Events for One Step Too Far
Lisa Gardner’s author page at Amazon
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Author of The Extinction Trials
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Paperwhite Gen 11 versus Oasis
Links
Paperwhite Gen 11
Paperwhite Signature Edition
Paperwhite Kids Edition
Kindle Oasis
Wireless charging dock for Paperwhite Signature Edition
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Notes from his 10th Decade
Links
The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt’s Chief of Staff by Phillips Payson O’Brien
“China’s Hypersonic Wake-Up Call” by The Editorial Board at The Wall Street Journal - October 18, 2021 (Behind pay wall)
Skylight Frame: 10-inch WiFi Digital Picture Frame - $159 at Amazon.com
The Heritage Foundation’s 2020 Index of U.S. Military Strength
The Edge of the Road podcast (recently updated after a two-year hiatus)
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This is a special "flash" episode of The Kindle Chronicles with my coverage of today's Amazon products and services event. The big news was that Astro, a home robot, is being offered for invite-only purchase later this year for a price of $1,000. It looks like an amazing invention, and I want one!
I'm finishing this episode in time to head north to Casper, Wyoming, in the new Tesla I picked up in Boulder yesterday. Onward!
On the Cambridge Lanai with Sophie
Links
Kindle Oasis
“New Kindle Software Update 5.13.7 Brings User Interface Changes” by Nathan at eBookreader.com
The Edge of the Road podcast (recently updated after a two-year hiatus)
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Mystic, Episcopal Priest, and Author
Links
Cynthia Bourgeault’s website
Books by Cynthia
Wisdom Waypoints
Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC)
Spiritual Gifts from the Imaginal Realm, an on-demand e-course available through Spirituality & Practice
Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journal into the Imaginal Realm by Cynthia Bourgeault
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Principal Product Manager, Kindle Vella
Interview starts at 13:45 and ends at 49:18
Note: I will be discussing my Virginia Milner interview Tuesday July 27th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. (Please note: audio in the podcast incorrectly states the Clubhouse meeting will be on Monday) Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Virginia Milner, principal product manager for Kindle Vella.
Amazon Launches Kindle Vella - press release July 13, 2021
Kindle Direct Publishing including Kindle Vella
Death and Life: A Biography by Hugh Howey - on Kindle Vella
Other Vellas to check out:
WOLF (Stope Packs #1) by Rebecca Zanetti
Bug by Callie Chase
The Marriage Auction by Audrey Carlan
Readwise
read.Amazon.com
Gabriel Allon (21-book series) by Daniel Silva
Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowack
Note: This episode concludes Season 1 of The Kindle Chronicles, which lasted 13 years. Season 2 will start on Friday, September 10, 2021. Thanks for listening!
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President of the Ocean Park Association
Interview starts at 2:41 and ends at 47:17
Note: I will be discussing my Rob Drake interview Tuesday July 20th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. (Please note change from usual scheduling on Mondays) Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Amazon Launches Kindle Vella - press release July 13, 2021
Ocean Park Association - Ocean Park, Maine
Ocean Park Vision Survey
Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre
Mrs. Osmond: A Novel by John Banville
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Commisario Brunettti (30-book series) by Donna Leon
The Maisie Dobbs series (16 books) by Jacqueline Winspear
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood
Next Week’s Guest
Virginia Milner, principal product manager for Kindle Vella.
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Author of The Lost Girls
Interview starts at 2:27 and ends at 33:08
Photo by Joanne Chiarella
Note: I will be discussing my Jessica Chiarella interview Monday July 12th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Jeff Tweedy interviewed by Ezra Klein - July 2, 2021
How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
And Again: A Novel by Jessica Chiarella
DePaul University interview with Jessicva Chiarelli (YouTube)
Serial podcast Season One
The Jinx - HBO
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Martian by Andy Weir
Next Week’s Guest
Rob Drake, incoming President of the Ocean Park Association
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Author of Dead by Dawn, (Mike Bowditch Mysteries Book 12)
Interview starts at 6:30 and ends at 53:13
Photo by Mark Fleming
Note: I will be discussing my Paul Doiron interview Monday July 5th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Laufey website
Paul Doiron
Mike Bowditch Mysteries (12-Book Series) by Paul Doiron
Kristen Lindquist
C J Box
Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency
Luanne Rice
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
Down East Magazine
Jeff Bezos invites Wally Funk to join him on the first crewed Blue Origin flight on July 20th. (Instagram video) - July 1, 2021
Next Week’s Guest
Jessica Chiarella, author of The Lost Girls, available for pre-order with release on July 6, 2021
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Co-founder of Matter
Interview starts at 16:06 and ends at 56:21
Note: I will be discussing my Ben Springwater interview Monday June 28, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Amazon Prime Day press release - June 23, 2021
Kobo Elipsa
reMarkable 2 tablet
Helix Jump at the App Store
Click here for my personal invite to join Matter
“On Bullshit” by Harry G. Frankfurt (PDF), first published in 1986, followed by an 81-page book with the same title in 2005.
“How I Became the Honest Broker” by Ted Gioia at his Culture Notes of an Honest Broker newsletter - May 26, 2021
Readwise
Andy Matuschak
Substack
Letters from an American - Substack newsletter by Heather Cox Richardson
Noahpinion - Substack newsletter by Noah Smith
Ted Lasso on Apple TV+
Next Week’s Guest
Paul Doiron, author of Dead by Dawn: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries, Book 12), available for pre-order with release on June 29, 2021
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Digital Public Library of America’s
Director of Business Development & Senior Strategist
Interview starts at 13:17 and ends at 46:40
Note: I will be discussing my Michele Kimpton interview Monday June 21, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Digital Public Library of America
DPLA Exchange
SimplyE e-reader app
“DPLA signs agreement with Amazon Publishing to make their books available to U.S. libraries” (press release) - May 18, 2021
“Amazon Publishing, DPLA Ink Deal to Lend E-books in Libraries” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - May 18, 2021
“The best early Prime Day deals” by Brandon Widder at The Verge - June 16, 2021
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer
Nameless Season 2, Amazon Original Stories by Dean Koontz
Next Week’s Guest
Ben Springwater, founder of Matter
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Author of Mop Rides the Waves of Change
Interview starts at 6:32 and ends at 44:46
Note: I will be discussing my Jaimal Yogis interview Monday June 14, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Mop Rides the Waves of Change by Jaimal Yogis - available for pre-order with release on July 13, 2021
Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing by Jaimal Yogis (2020)
Previous books by Jaimal Yogis: The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing...and Love (2013) and Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (2009)
Next Week’s Guest
Michele Kimpton, director of business development and senior strategist at the Digital Public Library of America
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Author of House of Crows, a four-part
Amazon Original Stories series
Interview starts at 6:32 and ends at 44:46
Note: I will be discussing my Lisa Unger interview Monday June 7, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Lisa Unger’s home page
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Red Hunter and Crazy Love You by Lisa Unger
Dark Corners, an Amazon Original Stories collection including “The Sleep Tight Motel” by Lisa Unger
Hush, an Amazon Original Stories collection including “Let Her Be” by Lisa Unger
Nameless by Dean Koontz: A Killer Serial (Season 1) and The Killer Finale (Season 2--available for preorder with release starting on June 10, 2021)
Confessions on the 7:45: A Novel by Lisa Unger (2020)
Available for pre-order with release on October 5, 2021: The Last Girl Ghosted: A Novel by Lisa Unger
Next Week’s Guest
Jaimal Yogis, author of Mop Rides the Waves of Change: A Mop Rides Story available for pre-order with release on July 13, 2021
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Author of Playing the Palace
Interview starts at 26:46 and ends at 51:31
Note: I will be discussing my Paul Rudnick interview Monday May 31, 2021 at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Matter, a social reading app currently in private beta on iOS
“The Institutional Yes” by Julia Kirby and Thomas A. Stewart at Harvard Business Review - October, 2007 (An revealing interview with Jeff Bezos)
“Amazon’s future beyond Jeff Bezos” at The Economist - May 22, 2021
“D.C. attorney general brings antitrust lawsuit against Amazon” by Cat Zakrzewski and Rachel Lerman at The Washington Post - May 25, 2021
Amazon and MGM press release - May 26, 2021
“Ereader screens are about to get a big upgrade” by Sharmista Sarkar at Techradar - May 25, 2021
“Amazon looking at opening pharmacy stores in U.S.” at Reuters - May 26, 2021
Next Week’s Guest
Lisa Unger, author of House of Crows, a four-part Amazon Original Stories series released on May 27, 2021
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Author of Pandemic and other thrillers
Interview starts at 16:27 and ends at 49:33
Note: I will be discussing my Gerry Riddle interview Monday May 24, 2021 at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
“Amazon Publishing, DPLA Ink Deal to Lend E-books in Libraries” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - May 18, 2021
“Amazon will distribute ebooks to public libraries” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - May 19, 2021
Digital Public Library of America press release - May 18, 2021
DPLA Exchange
SimplyE library E-Reader app for iOS and Android
“Amazon Prime Day 2021: These are the deals we think you’ll see” by Russell Holly at CNET - May 21, 2021
Echo Show 10 (3rd Gen) at Amazon.com
Novels by A. G. Riddle
Next Week’s Guest
Paul Rudnick, author of Playing the Palace, available for pre-order with release on May 25, 2021
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Author of Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
Interview starts at 2:00 and ends at 34:00
Note: I will be discussing my Brad Stone interview Monday May 17, 2021 at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone (2013)
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone (2017)
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on the David Rubenstein Show (YouTube)- September 19, 2018
Steve Jobs: A Biography by Walter Isaacson
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything by Steven Levy
Next Week’s Guest
A.G. Riddle, author of Pandemic and other science-based thrillers
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Author of The Last Green Valley
Interview starts at 6:34 and ends at 49:20
Note: I will be discussing my Mark Sullivan interview Monday May 9, 2021 at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
“Amazon Partners with Tile to take on Apple AirTags” by Jon Fortt and Fahiemah Al-Ali at CNBC - May 7, 2021
Kevin Kelly recommends Push to Kindle on Recomendo - $2/month on patreon gets uo 100 credits a month to use with Push to Kindle. 20 credits are apparently free each month.
Mark Sullivan’s web page
Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan
Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT
Sleeping Bear: A Thriller by Connor Sullivan (Mark’s son) - available for preorder with release on July 6, 2021. James Patterson’s blurb for the book: “Sleeping Bear is one of the very best thrillers you’ll read this year. It’s one of those rare novels that keeps getting better and better and better. Remember the author’s name—Connor Sullivan.”
“Amazon Unbound: Brad Stone on Amazon and Jeff Bezos” - Clubhouse event hosted by Steven Levy on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 8:30 Pm (EDT)
Next Week’s Guest
Brad Stone, author of Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire - available for pre-order with release May 11, 2021
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Senior Editor at Amazon Original Stories
Interview starts at 16:40 and ends at 51:54
Note: I will be discussing my Kjersti Egerdahl interview Monday May 2, 2021 at 1 pm EDT (Note the new day and time) on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
“LinkedIn Names Amazon No. 1 Company Where Americans Want to Work in 2021” - Amazon Press Release April 28, 2021
All New Fire HD 10 and Fire HD 10 Plus press release - April 27, 2020
Fire HD10 Productivity Bundle
Kjersti Egerdahl (Linkedin)
The Last Girl by Joe Hart
Amazon Original Stories
- YOUNG BLOOD by Andrew Barrer
- Nameless Season 1 by Dean Koontz
- EMERGENCY SKIN by N.K. Jemison
- ZIKORA by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- TURNING POINT: A Short Story by Jeffery Deaver
- Currency Collection featuring Kiley Reid, Jia Tolentino, Emma Cline, Justin Torres, Curtis Sittenfeld, Yiyun Li, Tom Perrotta, Cristina Henríquez
- Everything My Mother Taught Me by Alice Hoffman
- Nothing Like I Imagined (Except for Sometimes) by Mindy Kaling
- YOU ARE READY FOR TAKEOFF by Susan Orlean
- Take the Lead by Jessica Simpson
- HUSH (a collection) with some of today's most popular and award-winning crime writers including Lisa Unger
- The Viking Hondbók: Eat, Dress, and Fight Like a Warrior by Kjertsi Egerdahl
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester
Interview starts at 9:33 and ends at 51:30
Note: I will be discussing my James McQuivey interview Saturday April 24, 2021 at 4 pm EDT on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Amazon updates Echo Buds (CNBC)
Pre-order Echo Buds (2nd Gen) here at reduced price
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone - available for preorder with delivery May 11, 2021
James McQuivey’s blog posts at Forrester.com
Jeff Bezos’s last letter to shareholders as CEO - April 15, 2021
The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich
The “Big Five” human personality traits (Psychology Today)
“The Clubhouse Party is Over” by Nick Bilton at Vanity Fair - April 23, 2021
Next Week’s Guest
Kjersti Egerdahl, senior editor at Amazon Original Stories
Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Author of Young Blood, an Amazon Original Series trilogy
Interview starts at 21:00 and ends at 58:16
Photo by Jason Robbins
Note: I will be discussing my Andrew Barrer interview Saturday April 17, 2021 at 4 pm EDT on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Young Blood trilogy (Young Blood, Blue Dog and Crescent Moon) by Andrew Barrer - free to Prime members and Kindle Unlimited subscribers, includes free audio narration.
“Can Blood from Young People Slow Aging? Silicon Valley Has Bet Billions It Will” by Adam Piore at Newsweek - April 7, 2021
Germantown Academy
Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) on Prime Video
Die in a Gunfight - to be released this summer
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Audible version narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal)
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan (Audible version)
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Amazon Publishing is celebrating World Book Day by offering 10 Kindle books from around the world for FREE. Deal ends at 11:59 p.m. PDT on April 24, 2021. Check it out!
Next Week’s Guest
James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester
Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Zooming with the author of Vanishing Asia
Note: I will be discussing my Kevin Kelly interview Saturday April 10, 2021, at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Kevin Kelly’s Kickstarter page for Vanishing Asia
Kevin Kelly’s web page
“Making a Fairie Door” video at Kevin’s TRY YouTube Channel
Next Week’s Guest
Andrew Barrer, author of the Young Blood Trilogy, published by Amazon Original Stories
Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Len, Darlene, Sophie and Deb at our second rental
on Sanibel Island
Note: There will be no Clubhouse gathering tomorrow, because we are still on our drive from Sanibel to Cambridge, Mass. The weekly post-podcast Clubhouse salon will resume on April 9, 2021.
Links
Island Inn web cam on Sanibel
Len’s Newsletter Posts on Substack:
Travels with Sophie - April 2, 2021
Leaving Sanibel - March 30, 2021
Whelk versus iPhone - March 13
The preferred hotel chain of The Kindle Chronicles is Marriott Courtyard!
Next Week’s Guest
Kevin Kelly, author of Vanishing Asia, a set of 3 books comprising 1,000 pages that captures Asia’s disappearing traditions and vanishing designs, in 35 countries. Click here for Kickstarter page.
Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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City Manager of Sanibel, Florida
Interview starts at 19:29 and ends at 58:23
Note: I will be discussing my Judith Zimomra interview Saturday March 27, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Amazon Halo Band
“Bose announces Sleepbuds II” by Chris Welch at The Verge - September 22, 2020
Amazon hiring spree during pandemic by Nick Wingfield at The Information - March 18, 2021
“Amazon picks Twitter fight with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren amid union campaign” by Irina Ivanova at CBS News - March 26, 2021
Judith A. Zimomra, Sanibel City Manager
City of Sanibel website
Southern Living’s selections for “The South’s Best Beach Towns 2021” - March 9, 2021
Judie’s camera equipment includes a Nikon D3400 body and Tamron zoom lens
Judie’s Facebook photos including this one of an Ibis in flight
Email from Tom on Kindle software updates:
Recent Kindles and Kindle for iOS have had the re-designed ‘Aa settings’ (with Themes and reading settings) for some time now, but Fire’s Kindle app and Kindle for Android have lagged behind. The latest update gives these the same look and feel.
Also it seems the ‘Simplified Home Screen’ feature on Fire tablets is available for 4th generation and later Fire tablets (Running FireOS 5). It’s pretty impressive that 7 year old tablets are still getting updates (including Kindle app updates, Series grouping, etc.).
The Fire and Android Kindle apps are very close cousins. The current versions are 14.40.100 and 8.40.100, respectively (note the identical ‘40.100’ version suffix). They are feature-identical, except that the Fire app has text-to-speech.
But there are still a few feature differences between Kindle for Fire/Android and Kindle for iOS:
- On Fire/Android you can sort collection items by Recent, Title, or Author, as you can on Kindles. Collection item sorting options are not available in the iOS app. (However, on both you can rearrange the order by dragging items to where you want them).
- Operating on items in Library is different: on Fire/Android it defaults to multiple selection, and you have to bring the action menu, while on iOS, it brings up action menu directly when you select (long press) an item and to select more items you choose Select Multiple Items from the menu. Also, on iOS, if you have items in List view, drag left reveals Archive option (delete download. This is not available on Fire/Android. Here iOS has the edge: it takes fewer gestures to remove a download, for example.
- No Word Runner (I would actually use this some)
- No Word Wise
It’s mostly 1 & 2 that are a little annoying if you are switching platforms at all. People probably are not clamoring for 3 & 4, and most probably don’t know 3 and 4 exist.
Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
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Founder and President of Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency
Interview starts at 15:12 and ends at 53:38
Note: I will be discussing my Ann Rittenberg interview Saturday March 20, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
Amazon Care
Long Live the Nook!
Mobi, we hardly knew ye
“Michael Dorman to Headline ‘Joe Pickett’ Drama Series Ordered by Spectrum Originals” by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski at Deadline - March 18, 2021
Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency
Ann’s 2002 talk at Bennington, “The Successful Writer’s Personality”
C.J. Box
Your First Novel: An Author Agent Team Share the Keys to Achieving Your Dream by Ann Rittenberg and Laura Whitcomb
Dennis Lehane
Dead by Dawn: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries, 12) by Paul Doiron - available for pre-order with release on June 29, 2021
Amazon Crossing
Dean Koontz’s Jane Hawk series
Brad Parks
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht
Next Week’s Guest:
Judith A. Zimomra, Sanibel City Manager
Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Author of How to Train Your Mind: Exploring the Productivity Benefits of Meditation, an Audible Original
Interview starts at 15:54 and ends at 55:13
Note: I will be discussing my Chris Bailey interview Saturday March 13, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
“What Big Tech Antitrust Foe Lina Khan Could Do at the FTC” by Josh Sisco at The Information - March 10, 2021
“Why Tech Breakups Could be Good for Shareholders” by Martin Peers at The Information - March 11, 2021
“Amazon staffers reportedly fear secret ‘Vesta’ robot will be a pricey flop” by Noah Manskar at the New York Post - March 10, 2021
“Amazon’s Halo fitness tracker is getting Alexa integration” by Dan Seifert at The Verge - March 4, 2021
Amazon Halo
Chris Bailey’s website, A Life of Productivity
Books by Chris Bailey: The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy (2016) and
Clear Sky Retreat Center in Cranbrook, Alberta
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life by Sean Achor
Hyperfocus: How to Manage Your Attention in a World of Distraction (2018)
Freedom distractions blocker app
Becoming Better podcast by Chris Bailey and Ardyn Nordstrom
Next Week’s Guest:
Ann Rittenberg, literary agent for C. J. Box and other best-selling authors
Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Author of Dark Sky, Book 21 in the Joe Pickett series
Photo by Dave Neligh
Interview starts at 19:40 and ends at 43:22
Note: I will be discussing my C. J. Box interview Saturday March 6, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join!
Links
President Biden’s video on union election in Alabama
Amazon EU blog on Working at Amazon
“When Amazon Raises Its Minimum Wage, Local Companies Follow Suit” by Ben Casselman and Jim Tankersley at The New York Times - March 5, 2021
All-new Echo Show 10 (3rd Generation)
Eink.link
“Eink.link is a website directory for e-readers” by Mark Frauenfelder at boingboing - March 2, 2021
“How New E Ink Tablets Combine the Best of Kindles and iPads” by Alex Cranz at The Wall Street Journal - March 3, 2021
C.J. Box’s website
C.J. Box livestream recording at The Tattered Cover bookstore - March 4, 20212
Obituary of Doug Crowe in the Casper Star-Tribune - December 4, 2020
“Big Sky” TV series on ABC, based on The Highway by C. J. Box
Bob Budd, executive director of the Wyoming Wildlife & Natural Resource Trust
Next Week’s Guest:
Friday, March 12: Chris Bailey, author and narrator of How to Train Your Mind, an Audible Original
Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Author of The Other Emily
Interview starts at 23:28 and ends at 55:19
Note: I will be discussing my interview with Dean Koontz Saturday February 27, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me.
Links
Pocketbook Inkpad Color 7.8 - at Goodereader.com
The all-new Echo Show 10 (3rd Generation)
Instagram photo of Sophie listening to my playing guitar
How to Train Your Mind by Chris Bailey, an Audible Original
The Husband: A Novel by Dean Koontz (published in 2007)
Nameless, a six-story collection by Dean Koontz
Canine Companions for Independence
Upcoming Guests
Next week: C J Box, author of Dark Sky, Book 21 in the Joe Pickett series, available for pre-order with release March 2, 2021
Friday, March 12: Chris Bailey, author and narrator of How to Train Your Mind, an Audible Original
Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa
If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.
The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.
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Bloomberg Opinion Columnist &
Creator of the Noahpinion blog/newsletter
Interview starts at 11:40 and ends at 56:07
Links
Note: I will be discussing my interview with Noah Smith Saturday February 20, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I had originally planned the Clubhouse room for 1 p.m. but now realize that’s pretty early for a Saturday morning, especially on the West Coast.
Amazon’s Day 1 Editions products
“What’s Amazon’s Secret?” by Jonathan A. Knee at The New York Times - February 13, 2021
Noah Smith’s Noahpinion blog and newsletter
Noah Smith on Twitter
“It’s not Cancel Culture, it’s Cancel Technology” by Noah Smith at Noahpinion - February 16, 2021 (behind paywall)
Brad DeLong’s Grasping Reality blog
Gamergate controversy - Wikipedia
“Here’s what you need to know about Clubhouse, the invite-only social app” by Tim Marcin at Mashable - January 4, 2021
“Fretting About Inflation May Be Just the Cure We Need” by Noah Smith at Bloomberg Opinion - February 18, 2021
Upcoming Guests
Next week: Dean Koontz, author of The Other Emily, a novel available for pre-order with release on March 23, 021
Friday, March 3: C J Box, author of Dark Sky, Book 21 in the Joe Pickett series, available for pre-order with release March 2, 2021
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A Freshman at The Cambridge School of Weston
Interview starts at 14:06 and ends at 49:32
Links
“Marty Baron Considers His Time at The Washington Post” by Isaac Chotiner at The New Yorker - February 7, 2021
My previous interview with James on January 31, 2020 for TKC 600
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
The Cambridge School of Weston
Terrence Roberts
Sumbul Siddiqui, Mayor of Cambridge, Mass.
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Principal Product Manager &
Worldwide Series Lead at Amazon
Interview starts at 13:51 and ends at 52:50
Links
Amazon earnings release
“What to expect from Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - February 3, 2021
Steven Levy on Jeff Bezos announcement - February 5, 2021
“Who is Andy Jassy? 6 things to know about Amazon’s next CEO” by Harry McCracken at Fast Company - February 2, 2021
The Joe Pickett series by C. J. Box
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
The Traveler’s Gate trilogy by Will Wight
The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey
Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
The Milkweed triptych by Ian Tregillis
Author Follow updates from Amazon
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Sanibel FL Chief of Police
Interview starts at 12:47 and ends at 49:04
Links
“Amazon Expands Secretive Trucking Program” by Paris Marineau at The Information - January 25, 2021
“One Tale from an Amazon Seller” by Shira Ovide at The New York Times - January 27, 2021
Sanibel Police Department
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr, available for pre-order, with release on February 9, 2021
“Why (and How) Amazon Created the Kindle and Changed the Book Industry Forever” at Entrepreneur - January 27, 2021
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CEO of Project Voice
Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 56:32
Links
“KindleDrip: Critical vulnerabilities in Amazon Kindle e-reader gave attackers free rein over user accounts” by Jessica Haworth at The Daily Swig - January 21, 2021
“Will Amazon release a Color Kindle in 2021?” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - January 1, 2021
Bradley Metrock’s web site
Project Voice Coast to Coast
Zoom Video Webinars
Digital Book World 2021
“Pete Buttigieg testifies in Senate confirmation hearing for Transportation secretary” at PBS - January 21, 2021
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Co-authors of “COVID-19 and Book Publishing”
Interview starts at 8:35 and ends at 50:03
Links
“Connecticut Investigating Amazon’s E-Book Business” by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg and Dana Mattioli at The Wall Street Journal - January 13, 2021
“When Tech Antitrust Failed: How did a case meant to lower prices instead possibly lead to higher prices?” by Shira Ovide at The New York Times - January 15, 2021
COVID-19 and Book Publishing: Impacts and Insights for 2021 by Thad McIlroy, Cliff Guren, and Steve Sieck available for free download here
Panorama Project
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Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and MIT
Interview starts at 3:53 and ends at 42:11
Links
Greg Epstein’s bio page at Harvard and MIT
Greg’s Twitter account
The Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard and MIT - Click Here to donate
“My name is Greg, and I’m addicted to tech” by Greg M. Epstein at The Boston Globe - January 1, 2021
“In Memory of Tom Ferrick: America’s First Atheist Chaplain Died” by Greg M. Epstein at The Huffington Post - January 22, 2014
New York Times obit of the Rev. Peter J. Gomes - March 1, 2011
Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe by Greg Epstein
My interview with Bryan Hudson, founding pastor of New Covenant Church in Indianapolis, Indiana - December 25, 2020
Smart Recovery
Alcoholics Anonymous
Light Phone, reMarkable tablet
Amazon Halo
Next Week’s Guests
Thad McIlroy and Cliff Guren, co-authors (with Steve Sieck) of COVID-19 and Book Publishing: Impacts and Insights for 2021, available for free download here.
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Author of The Sanibel Island Lighthouse
Interview starts at 10:11 and ends at 50:26
Links
Typora.io
Kindle software update to 5.13.4
The Sanibel Island Lighthouse: A Specialized History of Sanibel Island, Florida 1513-2014 by Charles LeBuff, available at Smashwords
Sanybel Light: A Historical Autobiography by Charles LeBuff, available as a Kindle Unlimited selection at Amazon.com
Other books by Charles LeBuff available at Amazon
J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge in Sanibel, Florida
Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling (Wikipedia)
“Ding” Darling Wildlife Society
YouTube videos featuring Charles LeBuff
Sanibel Historical Museum and Village
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Patricia and Bryan Hudson, founding pastor of
New Covenant Church
Links
Christmas greeting from Pastor Bryan and Patricia Hudson
About New Covenant Church
Biblical & Social Justice: What Is It?: An Everyday Person’s Guide to Understanding Justice and the Role of the Church in Our Society by Bryan Hudson
Bryan's production company, Vision Communications
Bryan Hudson’s drone video of the Sanibel Island lighthouse
Ecamm Live
Trust by Pete Buttigieg
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Author of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Virtual Worlds: The Impact of Converging Technologies on Authors and the Publishing Industry
Links
Articles and podcasts about the future by Joanna Penn: https://www.thecreativepenn.com/future/
“9 Ways That Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Disrupt Authors and The Publishing Industry” - The Creative Penn podcast - July 1, 2019
GPT-3 (Wikipedia)
1 the Road by Ross Goodwin (Hardcover)
Pharmako-AI by K Allado-McDowell - Available for pre-order in the US, with delivery January 4, 2021
The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (written with a number of AI tools, including GPT-2, available via Kindle Unlimited)
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity by Arthur I. Miller
Futurebook conference and Wired Live conference
Stripe and PayPal
The EU Digital Services Act
Joanna (JF) Penn’s Payhip store for direct purchases of her books
BookFunnel
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
Oculus Quest 2 Virtual Reality headset
“Google wants to offer audio versions of more books using auto-generated narrators” by Abner Li at 9to9Google - December 3, 2020
Next Week’s Guest
Bryan Hudson, founding pastor of New Covenant Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, and author of Biblical & Social Justice: What Is It?: An Everyday Person’s Guide to Understanding Justice and the Role of the Church in Our Society
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Author of the Sanibel Island Mysteries series
Interview begins at 16:20 and ends at 45:54
Links
“Google is going to convert ebooks to audiobooks” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - December 8, 2020
“Tattered Cover sold to local investment group, making it the U.S.’s largest black-owned bookstore” by John Wenzel at The Denver Post - December 9, 2020
Fintie Folio Case for Kindle Oasis at Amazon.com
“Amazon Kindle for iOS can now add a widget to the homescreen” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - November 11, 2020
Jennifer Schiff’s author page at Amazon
Jennifer’s books at Shovel & Pail Press
MacIntosh Books + Paper, Sanibel FL
The Sanibel Sunset Detective Mysteries series (12 books) by Ron Base
The Doc Ford Novels (24 books) by Randy Wayne White
The Molly Murphy Mysteries(17 books) and The Royal Spyness Series (14 books) by Rhys Bowen
The Islands of Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce
Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum in Sanibel
Tinder Fella: A novel by Jennifer Schiff
A Shell of a Problem audiobook at Audible
Next Week’s Guest
Joanna Penn, author of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Virtual Worlds: The Impact of Converging Technologies on Authors and the Publishing Industry.
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CEO and Co-founder of Astrohaus
Interview begins at 16:36 and ends at 52:56
Links
“Amazon’s Alexa-powered smart glasses are now more widely available” by Nathan Ingraham at Engadget - November 19, 2020
Echo Frames (2nd edition)
r/Kindle Reddit post on new Oasis cover -$25
Fintie Origami Case for All-New Kindle Oasis - $20
Sale: Buy a Freewrite 2nd Gen or a Freewrite Traveler and get a free 1-year extended warranty
Markdown Guide
Sprinter Online Typewriter from Freewrite
NaNoWriMo
Next Week’s Guest
Jennifer Lonoff Schiff, author of the Sanibel Island Mystery series
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VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
Links
James McQuivey’s site at Forrester
“Learn from 2020 To Create Your Anywhere-Work Strategy” at Forrester.com - November 17, 2020
NPR interview with Nicholas Christakis - October 29, 2020
Ford’s all-electric Mustang
“Your Brain Is Not for Thinking” by Lisa Feldman Barrett at The New York Times - November 23, 2020
“A Holocaust Survivor Lifts Neighbors in Dark Times” by Matina Stevis-Gridneff at The New York Times - November 20, 2020
Next Week’s Guest
Adam Leeb, CEO and co-founder of Astrohaus, creator of the Freewrite Traveler
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Len, Darlene, and Tess
Links
Courtyard by Marriott
Baked Beans at Bailey’s General Store, Sanibel FL
Tesla Model 3
Maho Bay Campgrounds, St. John USVI
A Shell of a Problem: A Sanibel Island Mystery by Jennifer Lonoff Schiff (first in a series of six)
“Why Sanibel Island is the ‘Sea Shell Capital of the World’” by Charity de Souza at Trips to Discover
Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, with an Introduction by Walter Isaacson
Mary Bondurant, Sanibel realtor extraordinaire
Sanibel Historical Museum & Village
Next Week’s Guest
James McQuiviey, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
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Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine
Interview starts at 5:05 and ends at 45:39
Links
Kevin Kelly’s back articles at Wired Magazine
Kevin Kelly’s Technium blog
Weekly newsletter Recomendo
Vanishing Asia book in Instagram
Weekly podcast about the four favorite tools of remarkable people
Daily Cool Tools website
TRY video channel
Kevin Kelly on Twitter
Kevin Kelly’s YouTube Channel
“AR Will Spark the Next Big Tech Platform--Call It Mirrorworld” by Kevin Kelly at Wired - February 12, 2019
The Long Now Foundation
“Confessions of a Phone Bank Captain” by Len Edgerly at Medium - November 5, 2020
The Freewrite Traveler: The Ultimate Distraction-Free Writing Tool
On the Road with Alexa
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Editor in Chief of Audible Originals
Interview starts at 12:17 and ends at 42:35
Links
“Bezos sells more than $3 billion worth of Amazon shares” by Annie Palmer at CNBC - November 4, 2020
“Amazon unveils its new electric delivery vans built by Rivian” at The Verge - October 8, 2020
“Long Way Up” available on Apple TV+
Freewrite Traveler - $429
Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa - By Len Edgerly
“Confessions of a Phone Bank Captain” by Len Edgerly at Medium - November 5, 2020
Audible Originals
Serial Podcast
“Actor Jesse Eisenberg Pens and Performs New Audible Original” (Audible press release) - April 9, 2020
“The Social Network” (2010) on Netflix
“When You Finish Saving the World” on Audible
Words + Music titles at Audible
“On Power” by Robert A. Caro, an Audible Original
Audible Plus and Audible Premium Plus memberships
“Stories of a Lifetime” by Dan Rather, an Audible Original
“The Future of Global Convergence” (YouTube video) by Kevin Kelly
Pete Buttigieg’s conversation with Jonathan Alter on the Deciding Decade podcast
Next Week’s Guest:
Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired Magazine
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Author of Memorial: A Novel
Interview starts at 18:36 and ends at 48:00
Links
“Jeff Bezos in 1999 on Amazon’s Plans Before the Dotcom Crash” - CNBC video at YouTube February 8, 2019
Audible Plus membership, $7.95 a month
Oculus Quest 2 Virtual Reality headset at Amazon.com - $299
Bryan Washington’s web site
Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington
My 2015 interview with Chris Meadows, who died of injuries sustained in a bicycle accicent last month, much too young.
Upcoming Guests
David Blum, editor in chief of Audible Originals
Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired Magazine
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Amazon’s Director and General Manager, Alexa Shopping
Interview starts at 11:57 and ends at 39:44
Links
“Blogger-gamer-techie Chris Meadows mixed brains and kindness: ‘How can I make your day better?” by David Rothman at Teleread - October 20, 2020
Paperlike iPad screen protector $39.99
Kesler Woodward’s web site
John Love Linkedin page
Chris Meadows obituary
Lean Six Sigma (Wikipedia)
Dog Man books by Dav Pilkey
Upcoming Guests
David Blum, editor in chief of Audible Originals
Bryan Washington, author of Memorial: A Novel, available for pre-order with release on October 27, 2020
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Author of Facebook: The Inside Story
Interview starts at 16:43 and ends at 53:31
Links
“Amazon’s Prime Day Accelerates Shift to Online Shopping” by Sebastian Herrera at The Wall Street Journal - October 16, 2020
Kids Against Maturity: Card Game for Kids and Families - $29.99 at Amazon.com
reMarkable 2 tablet
Be Free Organizing in Boulder, CO
Steven Levy’s home page
“Does the House Antitrust Report Mean That Tech is Evil?” by Steven Levy at Wired - October 9, 2020
Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life by Jonathan Alter
Insanely Great: The Life and Times or Mcintosh, the Computer that changed Everything by Steven Levy
Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology (paperback) by Steven Levy
The Unicorn’s Secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius by Steven Levy
“Does the House Antitrust Report Mean That Tech is Evil?” by Steven Levy at Wired - October 9, 2020
Click here to subscribe to Wired magazine for only $5 for the first year, including exclusive access to Steven Levy’s Plaintext email newsletter
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Author of Elsewhere
Interview starts at 19:22 and ends at 55:16
Links
“Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets” by Majority Staff Report of House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law of the Committee on the Judiciary (PDF)
Steven Levy’s Plaintext newsletter - October 9, 2020
“House’s Antitrust Verdict on Big Tech: The Information’s Tech Briefing” - October 6, 2020
“Fringe notions on antitrust would destroy small businesses and hurt consumers” at Amazon’s Day One Blog - October 6, 2020
“Update on COVID-19 Testing” at Day One Blog - October 1, 2020
Dean Koontz, author of Elsewhere, published by Thomas & Mercer on October 6, 2020
Dean Koontz’s author page at Amazon.com
Dean video introducing Elsewhere
A Mighty Blaze - Mighty Mystery Celebrity Event with Dean Koontz - October 6, 2020
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Author of Pandemic and other science-based thrillers
Interview starts at 14:04 and ends at 47:39
Links
“Amazon One lets you pay at stores with the palm of your hand” by Stan Schroeder at Mashable - September 29, 2020
Amazon One home page
“The first Amazon Fresh grocery store with smart Dash carts opens in LA” by Maggie Tillman at Pocket-Lint - September 17, 2020
Amazon Halo Health and Wellness Band
“Amazon Quietly Expands Large-Scale Covid Testing Program for Warehouses” by Paris Martineau at The Information - September 24, 2020 (probably behind a paywall).
“Applying Spaced Repetition and Active Recall to Books to Hack Your Brain” by Daniel Doyon at the Readwise blog - September 15, 2020
A G Riddle’s web site and Official Store at Amazon.com
Next Week’s Guest
Dean Koontz, author of Elsewhere, available for pre-order with release on October 6, 2020
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Darlene and Sophie at the table where we discussed Amazon's new products, announced yesterday at virtual press event
Other coverage of Amazon's new-products event:
Day One blog
Business Insider
The Washington Post
The Wall Street Journal
Author of
Repairing Jefferson’s America: A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship
Interview starts at 6:37 and ends at 48:46
Links
“Amazon is developing the Kindle Paperwhite 5 with Glowlight” by Michael Kozlowski at Good EReader.com - September 17, 2020
Amazon Book Clubs early access
“Amazon FreeTime Unlimited rebranded as Kids Plus with more videos, music” by Alison DeNisco at CNET - September 15, 2020
Amazon Kids announced at Day One Amazon blog - September 14, 2020
“Amazon Alexa can now connect to printers, here is how” by Cosmin Vasile at phoneArena.com - September 14, 2020
Clay Jenkinson’s podcast, The Thomas Jefferson Hour, and recent book, Repairing Jefferson’s America: A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship
Eyeglass Nose Pads ($7.99 at Amazon.com) recommended by Dave Slusher of The Evil Genius Chronicles podcast for a better fit with Echo Frames
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Author of House Lessons: Renovating a Life
and The Scent Keeper
Interview starts at 2:10 and ends at 41:18
Links
Erica Bauermeister’s web site and virtual book launch for House Lessons
Erica’s books at Amazon.com
My August 29, 2020 interview with Joe Lemay, Founder and CEO of Rocketbook
Livescribe
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Next Week’s Guest
Clay Jenkinson, host of The Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast and author of Repairing Jefferson’s America: A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship
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Author of Interference
Interview starts at 14:05 and ends at 49:17
Links
FAA certifies Prime Air for drone delivery tests
New life for the nook?
The Creative Penn podcast with Len Edgerly interview
Amazon Driver a Hero in Ohio
Fire TV Stick 4K - $39.99 at Amazon.com
How to Quiet Your Devices
Brad Parks’s web site
Essex Public Library library friends virtual book launch party for Interference
Chad Zunker’s web site
Hilary Davidson’s web site
Unthinkable by Brad Parks - available for pre-order with delivery on July 27, 2021
Next Week’s Guest
Erica Bauermeister, author of The Scent Keeper and House Lessons: Renovating a Life
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Co-founder and CEO of Rocketbook
Interview starts at 13:35 and ends at 54:00
Links
Amazon Halo - Early Access special price of $64.99
“Amazon unveils Halo to battle Apple Watch and Fitbit — tracks activity, body fat, emotions” by Christina Farr at CNBC - August 27, 2020
Echo Frames - $179.99 at Amazon.com
“How to Make Alexa talk faster (or slower)” by Hugh Langley at the ambient - July 8, 2020
Rocketbook web site
FriXion pen by Pilot
Rocketbook Panda Planner (executive size, includes FriXion pen and microfiber cloth) at Amazon.com - $35
Rocketbook Fusion Notebook at Amazon.com - $37
Rocketbook Orbit Kickstarter - pledges starting at $29
Palmer Method of penmanship (Wikipedia)
Rocketbook Beacons for whiteboards - $15.00 at Amazon.com
Note: Please email me at PodChronicles AT gmail if you’d like an invitation to the private Facebook group Len’s Birthday Bash to hear the Jim Robitaille Trio’s livestream jazz performance at my 70th birthday party. If all goes according to plan, they will be playing in a studio in southern Massachusetts, streaming to my Fire TV Edition Toshiba smart TV here in Ocean Park, Maine. The music will begin a little before 11 am ET on Sunday, August 30th. I hope you can join us!
Upcoming Guests
Brad Parks, author of Interference, available for pre-order with delivery
Erica Bauermeister, author of The Scent Keeper
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Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives
Interview starts at 15:47 and ends at 51:40
Links
“Amazon Names Dave Clark Consumer CEO to Replace Retiring Jeff Wilke” by Matt Day at
“Executives who work for Amazon’s logistics kingpin Dave Clark become ‘Dave Whisperers’” by Rachel Premack at Business Insider - August 21, 2020
“Prime Day 2020? Amazon kicks off huge sale with deals on 38 Amazon devices” by Elyse Betters Picaro at ZDNet - August 18, 2020
Porter Anderson’s Linkedin page
The Bookseller and FutureBook.net
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
Delta Airlines FAQ on coronavirus impact
Frankfurt Book Fair
“Digital Programming: The UK’s Women’s Prize Would Like to Sell You a Ticket” by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - August 19, 2020
“US Publishers, Authors, Booksellers Call Out Amazon’s ‘Concentrated Power’ in the Market” by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - August 17, 2020
Books recommended by Porter Anderson: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum, The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World by Jim Sciutto, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter (available for pre-order with release on August 25, 2020)
Upcoming Guests
Joe Lemay, co-founder and CEO of Rocketbook
Brad Parks, author of Interference, available for pre-order with delivery
Erica Bauermeister, author of The Scent Keeper
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Manager of Kindle Accessibility at Amazon
Interview starts at 16:17 and ends at 52:05
Links
PocketBook Color - available at Good E Reader for $219.99 plus shipping
Echo Frames - $179.99 at Amazon.com
“Amazon and Mall Operator Look at Turning Sears, J.C. Penney Stores Into Fulfillment Centers” by Esther Fung and Sebastian Herrera at The Wall Street Journal - August 9, 2020
JoAnna Hunt at Linkedin
“A commitment to accessibility and inclusion” at Amazon’s Day One blog - July 15, 2020
Reading Ruler
Next Week’s Guest
Porter Anderson, editor-in-chief of Publishing Perspectives
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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
Interview starts at 7:43 and ends at 49:35
Links
Rocketbook reusable notebook (mini) - $13.56 at Amazon.com
James McQuivey’s website
Nicholas A. Christakis
“Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” by Lina M. Khan at The Yale Law Journal - January 2017
Jeff Bezos’s opening statement to Congress (YouTube) - July 29, 2020
The Media Monopoly by Ben H. Bagdikian (paperback only)
Burpee Challenge
Wim Hof website
The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb
This Week in Virology podcast
The Creative Penn
Next Week’s Guest
JoAnna Hunt, Manager-Kindle Accessibility at Amazon
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Curator of a free poem-of-the-week email list
Interview starts at 20:34 and ends at 51:52
Links
Jeff Bezos’s opening statement to Congress (YouTube) - July 29, 2020
“Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” by Lina M. Khan at The Yale Law Review - January 2017
“Amazon confirms Prime Day delay in the US” by Jon Porter at The Verge - July 21, 2020
reMarkable 2 tablet - available for pre-order at $399
iPad Pro - starting at $749
To request inclusion on Richard Bruno’s free email list for weekly poems, please email him at richardgbruno AT gmail DOT com
“The familiarity of a poem: Connie Schultz” at Cleveland.com - April 13, 2011
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Photo by Ryan Lash
Host of Live On Lockdown and We’re Having a Moment
Interview starts at 10:59 and ends at 51:49
Links
“Antitrust hearing indefinitely postponed” by Rachel Kraus at Mashable - July 24,2020
“How to convert a PDF file for your Kindle” at The Verge
Baratunde Thurston’s website
Live On Lockdown
"We're Having a Moment" podcast
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Baratunde’s Patreon Page and TED talk (2019)
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Author of Pandemic and other thrillers
Links
“Amazon pilots opening health care centers near its fulfillment centers” at Day One Blog - July 14, 2020
“What’s Ailing an Amazon Health Venture” By Paris Martineau at The Information (paywall) - July 16, 2020
Click here to subscribe to The Information
Instapaper
A.G. Riddle’s website
A. G. Riddle’s store at Amazon.com
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Founder and CEO of @Skilltype
Links
Skilltype
Tony Zanders at Boston University Libraries
The Quantified Self movement
“Why the Amazon Kindle is a bibliophile’s digital must-have” by Whitson Gordon at NBC News - July 9, 2020
Pocket to Amazon Kindle (P2k)
Len’s “How to Choose a Kindle” YouTube video - June 2019
Amazon adds hands-free activation to Alexa app via GeekWire - July 7, 2020
“How to use Alexa on the Apple Watch” by Conor Allison at Wareable - January 8, 2020
Echo Frames at Amazon.com
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Senior Editor-Trade Books at Amazon.com
Links
Erin Kodicek’s links at The Amazon Book Review
Amazon Book Review Podcast
Amazon’s 2020 Best Books of the Year So Far
Next Week’s Guest
Tony Zanders, Founder & CEO of Skilltype
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Author of Mop Rides the Waves of Life:
A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing
Interview starts at 0:59 and ends at 33:44
Links
Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing by Jaimal Yogis and Matt Allen - available for pre-order, with release on June 30, 2020
Jaimal Yogis’s web site, including these videos: How to Surf Your Emotions, 1-Minute Meditation For Kids (And Kids at Heart), Guided Ocean Meditation for Sleep and Relaxation
Previous books by Jaimal Yogis: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (2009), The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing...and Love (2013), and All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride (2017)
Pacific Primary
Amazon announces acquisition of Zoox at Day One Blog - June 26, 2020
“Amazon Shakes Up the Race for Self-Driving--and Ride-Hailing” by Aarian Marshall at Wired - June 26, 2020
Zoox demo drive (YouTube) - April 17, 2020
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Ryan and Jake learning Beach Buggy 2 in the Tesla
Interview starts at 50:01 and ends at 45:04
Links
“Amazon plans summer sale for June 22 to ‘jumpstart sales’ after coronavirus crunch” by Annie Palmer at CNBC - June 2, 2020
“Amazon introduces ‘Distance Assistant’” by Brad Porter at Day One blog - June 16, 2020
LEGO NINJAGO Ninja Tuner Car kit (419 pieces) - $32 at Amazon.com
Wonder Workshop Dash robot for Kids 6+ ($150 at Amazon.com)
Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French
Pete the Cat: Snow Daze by James Dean
Radio Garden
Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing by Jaimal Yogis and Matt Allen - available for pre-order, with release on June 30, 2020
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Photo Credit: Fortune Magazine
Author of Bezonomics: How Amazon is Changing Our Lives
and What the World’s Best Companies Are Learning from It
Interview starts at 14:21 and ends at 49:03
Links
“Jeff Bezos’s Instagram Posts Are a Lesson in How to Respond to a Crisis” by Minda Zetlin at Inc. - June 10, 2020
Echo Frames
Echo Buds
“Amazon launches two new Kindle Paperwhite colors” by Jay Peters at The Verge - June 10, 2020
Kindle Paperwhite
“Amazon Fire HD 8 has one tiny feature I’d love to see in new iPad Pros” by Tom Bedford at techradar - June 5, 2020
Brian Dumaine at Linkedin
“The cost of keeping schools closed will be dreadful” by Tim Harford at Financial Times - June 12, 2020.
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Author of The Voter File (Photo © Claire Salzman)
Interview starts at 16:23 and ends at 43:41
Links
Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 8 Plus
Fire HD Plus bundled with Wireless Charging Dock
“You can Now Permanently Delete Kindle eBooks on Kindle Devices” by Nathan at theebbookreader.com - July 2, 2020
OverDrive app for Fire tables
Books in the Jack Sharpe series by David Pepper: The People’s House (Book 1), The Wingman (Book 2), and The Voter File (Book 3)
David Pepper at Linkedin, Twitter, and Facebook
Next Week’s Guest
Brian Dumaine, author of Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World’s Companies Are Learning From It
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Manager, Amazon Literary Partnership
Interview starts at 12:49 and ends at 46:59
Links
“Amazon Echo Look No More - Another Alexa Device Discontinued” by Bret Kinsella at voicebot.ai - May 29, 2020
Alexandra Woodworth at Linkedin
Amazon Literary Partnership
Artist Relief
Deep Vellum Publishing
City of Asylum
LitNet
Amazon Book Review
Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City by Fang Fang
Academy of American Poets
How to suspend a Hold on OverDrive
My Must Reads app
Libro.fm
Next Week’s Guest
David Pepper, author of The Voter File, available for pre-order with delivery June 2, 2020
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My Wife and Sophie on the upper deck in Maine
Interview starts at 13:26 and ends at 51:35
Links
“The Amazon Kindle is doomed, unless it uses color e-paper” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - May 18, 2020
PhoneSoap UV-C sanitizing devices
Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir by Jennifer McGaha
The Professional Book Nerds Podcast
Next Week’s Guest
David Pepper, author of The Voter File, available for pre-order with delivery June 2, 2020
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Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Interview starts at 16:22 and ends at 53:61
Links
Amazon press release on new HD 8 tablets - May 13, 2020
“Amazon upgrades its Fire HD 8 Tablet” by David Carnoy at CNET - May 13, 2020
Readwise
“The Future of Work Starts Now” by James McQuivey at Forrester Research - April 20, 2020
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Associate Director - instructional support and development Harvard Graduate School of Education
Interview starts at 9:28 and ends at 50:27
Links
DK Readers L2: Star Wars: The Adventures of BB-8 by David Fentiman
Josh Bookin
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education site on teaching remotely
Harvard-wide site on teaching remotely
A site from University of Michigan about online teaching
Zoom
Canvas
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Author of The King of Warsaw
Interview starts at 10:30 and ends at 42:02
Links
Amazon First Quarter Earnings press release - April 30, 2020
“Amazon Says It Will Forgo Billions in Profits to Invest into Worker Safety Measures” by Lauren Debter at Forbes - April 30, 2020
The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch translated by Sean Gasper Bye
Male Fantasies, Vol. 2: Male Bodies - Psychoanalyzing the White Terror by Klaus Theweleitf
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Author of Pandemic and other science thrillers
Interview starts at 18:39 and ends at 52:01
Links
“Bezos Takes Back the Wheel at Amazon” by Karen Weise at The New York Times - April 22, 2020
Jay Carney interview with Brian Stelter - March 29, 2020
Jeff Bezos’s Letter to Shareholders - April 16, 2020
“Will you buy the Pocketbook Color?” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - April 23, 202
Books by A. G. Riddle
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Director of Brand Marketing and Communication at OverDrive
Interview starts at 13:08 and ends at 55:48
Links
“How Are Indie and SFF Bookstores Weathering the Coronavirus Outbreak?” By Andrew Liptak at Tor.com - April 15, 2020
“Survey of Independent Bookstores Shows Coronavirus Toll” by Alex Green at Publishers Weekly - April 8, 2020
The Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver
“Audiobooks and literacy: a rapid review of the literature” at National Literacy Trust in London - February 17, 2020 Link to full report (PDF) by Emily Best
OverDrive
OverDrive’s Libby app
Certified B Corporation
Big Library Read
Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic: A Comedian’s Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary
Blog of Steve Potash, Founder and CEO of OverDrive
Panorama Project
#eBooksForAll
Amazon Crossing’s nine free titles for World Book Day
The King of Warsaw: A Novel by Szczepan Twardoch available for pre-order from Amazon Crossing with release on April 21, 2020
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
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Author of Devoted, published March 31, 2020 by
Thomas & Mercer
Interview starts at 18:15 and ends at 49:40
Links
Macmillan CEO John Sargent’s letter rescinding changes in eBook pricing to libraries - March 17, 2020
“Macmillan Abandons Library E-book Embargo” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - March 17, 2020.
“Macmillan lifts library ebook embargo; DBW ban ends” by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World - March 17, 2020
Audible Captions demo (video)
“Amazon extends its US and Canada returns window to May 31” by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET - April 3, 2020
“Amazon and Apple Strike Deal for Prime Video In-App Purchases and Subscriptions” by John Gruger at Daring Fireball - April 2, 2020
Dean Koontz on Twitter
Devoted by Dean Koontz
Other books by Dean Koontz mentioned in the interview: Watchers (1999); The Eyes of Darkness (1981); Innocence (2013); Elsewhere (available for pre-order, ships October 20, 2020); the Moonlight Bay series (2 books first published in 1997 and 1998); the Odd Thomas series (6 books, the first published in 2003); the Jane Hawk series (5 books, the first published in 2017)
Canine Companions for Independence
Archaea microbe (Wikipedia)
A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie by Dean Koontz
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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
Links
“How Employees Feel About Coronavirus: Early Results from Forrester’s PandemicEX Survey” by James McQuivey at Forrester blog - March 11, 2020
Jeff Bezos’s letter to employees
In-N-Out Burger’s Coronavirus statement - March 24, 2020
More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War by Kenneth C. Davis (not mentioned in interview, but of possible interest)
“Forrester Future Fit”: How Fit Are You?” By James McQuivey - April 1, 2019
“Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World” By Michael Pollan (Audible)
Man Runs Marathon on Balcony in France (YouTube)
Devoted by Dean Koontz
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My Wife at Sunrise in Ocean Park, Maine
Links
Jeff Bezos’s letter to employees
“Will Covid-19 change how Amazon-Haters See Amazon?” By David Enzel at Medium - March 24, 2020
“Amazon’s COVID-19 blog” at Day One - March 27, 2020
“What I Learned When My Husband Got Sick With Coronavirus” by Jessica Lustig at The New York Times - March 24, 2020
PSA Safe Grocery Shopping in COVID-19 Pandemic (YouTube) - March 24, 2020
“The new iPad Pro isn’t a laptop replacement. It’s better than that” by Jeremy White at Wired - March 24, 2020
“Ramblin’ Boy” by Tom Paxton (YouTube)
Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems (YouTube)
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Author of A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir
Links
Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia and YouTube
Jason’s performance at Harlem Sound Stage (rescheduled for October)
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Author of Pandemic and other thrillers
Interview starts at 1:05 and ends at 39:20
Links
A G Riddle’s website
My father’s poem, “Transition” (video)
Next week’s guest: Jason Diakité, author of A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir
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Author of Facebook: The Inside Story
Links
Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy (2011)
“‘Facebook: The Inside Story’ author Steven Levy on how the company compares to Apple and Google” by Casey Newton at The Verge - February 26, 2020
“The Social Network” - 2010 movie on Prime Video
“The Alternate Universe Where Facebook Bought Twitter” by Steven Levy at Wired - March 6, 2020
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Lawrence Lessig
“South By Southwest Has Been Canceled Because of the Coronavirus” by Aaron Mak at Slate - March 6, 2020
Statement by SXSW
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Executive Director of Digital Book World
Links
“Amazon’s top spokesman: We want to question Trump over ‘blatant political interference’ in Pentagon cloud contract decision” by Annie Palmer at CNBC - February 12, 2020
“Why Bernie Sanders Praised Amazon” by Jay Carney at The New York Times - February 10, 2010
“Amazon Kindle to include more options in the font menu” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - February 19, 2020
Kindle software updates
Bradley Metrock
This Week in Voice podcast
Digital Book World - September 14-15, 2020, in Nashville
American Library Association
#eBooksForAll petition campaign
“Digital Book World Bans Macmillan Employees in Response to Library Embargo” by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World blog - January 28, 2020
“ALA Midwinter 2020: Macmillan CEO John Sargent, Librarians Spar Over E-Book Embargo” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - January 26, 2020
“Book Club” column by Ron Charles mentioning DBW ban on Macmillan employees at The Washington Post
Jennifer N. Baker
Vooks
Scribd
Alexa Flash Briefings
Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy
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Author of Pandemic and other thrillers
Links
A G Riddle’s books at Amazon.com
Next Week’s Guest
Bradley Metrock, director of Digital Book World
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Technical Editor at Microwave Journal
Interview begins at 5:40 and ends at 47:00
Links
Readwise app for Kindle highlights
Articles by Gary Lerude at Microwave Journal
“Introducing Amazon Sidewalk” at The Amazon Blog - September 27, 2020
Gary’s Podcast Recommendations: The Daily, Post Reports, The Daily 202, On Being, Secular Buddhism, Timber Hawkeye
My Asynchronous Dialog with Austin Kleon at The Kindle Chronicles - May 4, 2019
The Pomodoro Technique
Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled
Pandemic (The Extinction Files Book 1) by A. G. Riddle
My most recent interview with A. G. Riddle - March 7, 2019
Next Week’s Guest
A G Riddle
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Author of Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes
Interview begins at 20:20 and ends at 47:20
Links
“Digital Book World Bans Macmillan Employees in Response to Library Embargo” by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World website - January 28, 2020
American Library Association launches campaign against e-book embargo - September 11, 2020
Report on ALA Midwinter 2020 meeting by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - January 26, 2020
Washington Post coverage of Digital Book World ban of Macmillan
eBooks For All petition
“How to Make Your iPhone or iPad Read Kindle Books Aloud to you” by Reagan Rose at Redeeming Productivity
Library Extension for Chrome and Firefox via Kevin Kelly at Recommendo
Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West
5 a.m. Writers Club
My January 18, 2020 interview with Joanna Penn, creator of The Creative Penn blog and podcast
“Finding the Perfect Comp” by Kathleen West at The Debutante Ball - January 21, 2020
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Kathleen West’s book tour dates for Minor Dramas
The Inside Flap: A Weekly Book Podcast
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James and his Bengal cat, Serena
Links
Arlington Street Church, Boston
Sumbul Siddiqui, Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Internment by Samira Ahmed
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Next Week’s Guest
Kathleen West, author of Minor Dramas and other Catastrophes - available for pre-order with delivery February 4, 2020
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Your host with Stacey Helbig and Elissa Mekel
Links
Staples Connect
Staples Connect grand opening invitation February 5, 2020
Staples Studio
RODEcaster Pro Podcast Production Studio
Pro Audio Design
Thomas G. Stemberg (1949 - 2015), founder of Staples
iHeart Radio
We Edit Podcasts
Everything Coworking podcast with Jamie Russo
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Founder of The Creative Penn and author of Audio for Authors
Links
Audio for Authors: Audiobooks, Podcasting, and Voice Technologies (Books for Writers Book 11) by Joanna Penn - Available for pre-order with delivery March 6, 2020
Books by Joanna Penn
Books by J. F. Penn
The Creative Penn podcast
Welcome to Night Vale
Digital Book World - September 14-15, 2020 in Nashville
Bradley Metrock
World War Z by Max Brooks
Audible and storytel
Audiobooks by Steven Erikson
BookBub
Smashwords
ACX
Kobo Writing Life
Kindle Unlimited and KDP Select
International Thriller Writers 2020 awards - including 2017 nomination of Destroyer of Worlds by J. F. Penn in “Best E-Book Original Novel” category
Books by James Scott Bell
The Books and Travel Podcast by Joanna Penn
Patreon
Click here to sign up for Joanna Penn’s free Author 2.0 Blueprint and email mini-course
Joanna Penn’s full course catalogue
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Author of Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness
Links
Books by Katharine Esty:
Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness - 2019
Twenty-Seven Dollars and a Dream: How Muhammad Yunus Changed the World and What It Cost Him - 2014
Workplace Diversity: A Manager’s Guide to Solving Problems and Turning Diversity into a Competitive Advantage (Paperback only) - 1995
The Gypsies: Wanderers in Time (Hardcover only) - 1969
Skyhorse Publishing
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Author of “I Met Jeff Bezos in 1995 When He Had a Lame-Looking Website Called Amazon”
Interview starts at 11:10 and ends at 50:02
“He came in a bit shy and slightly nervous--febrile, slightly feverish is how I described him, and maybe he was. We got right down to business. We talked for a couple of minutes, and he told me about this business and the packing of the books and so on, and how there was this opportunity to sell books. He was already talking about being able to have a better margin, because there were no bricks and mortar. That was his fundamental shaping of it, of what his business was designed to do. We talked for a while. He told me a little bit about his background, and then he showed me his website.”
Links
Amazon holiday press release - December 26, 2019
Craig Stoltz at LinkedIn
“I Met Jeff Bezos in 1995 When He Had a Lame-Looking Website Called Amazon” by Craig Stoltz at Washingtonian - December 27, 2019
HealthCare.gov
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Retired Science Editor of The Christian Science Monitor
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Cowan honored with Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) - May 31, 2001
Karl Taylor Compton, president of MIT 1930-1948
Agnes de Mille (1905-1993)
An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavsky
Prince Louis de Broglie, one of the founders of quantum physics
Edward Teller, known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb”
“A Long-ago moment with Edward Teller” by Robert C. Cowen at The Christian Science Monitor - September 12, 2003
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At the Acropolis with Sonja and Anthony
Recorded on Crete December 18, 2019
Uploaded from Cambridge December 20, 2019
We are in Malta today. I created and uploaded this episode using my iPhone, which led to numerous unforeseen challenges. I hope you will be able to listen to it.
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Author of Genesis
Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 43:00
Links
“Hey Google, play me the news” by Liz Gannes at Google’s blog
Robin Cook TEDx talk (YouTube) at his alma mater, Wesleyan University - September 17, 2019
Books by Robin Cook: Coma, Cell, Pandemic, Marker
CRISPR-Cas9
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Director, Books PR & Editorial at Amazon.com
Interview starts at 11:47 and ends at 48:10
“We really want to choose books that we feel like customers will love or--in a non-pushy way--should love.”
Links
“Alexa’s voice can now express disappointment and excitement” by Jay Peters at The Verge - November 26, 2019
Alexa Skills Kit Blog post on new Emotions and Speaking styles - November 26, 2019
Sarah Gelman’s posts at The Amazon Book Review
Amazon’s Best Books of 2019 (amazon.com/bestbooks2019)
South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations by Sean Brock
The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
Will the Cat Eat My Eyeballs: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard
A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins
“What I’m reading on my summer vacation” by Sarah Gelman at The Amazon Book Review - July 3, 2019
TV Shows mentioned: This is Us, A Million Little Things, Younger,
Next Week’s Guest
Robin Cook, author of Genesis: A Novel, available for pre-order from G. P. Putnam’s Sons, with release on December 3, 2019
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Amazon’s General Manager
of Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading
“There are so many types of readers. There are so many reasons, and so what we’re just trying to do is make a service that is valuable and compelling, to delight readers.”
Links
“Amazon Has Become America’s CEO Factory” by Dana Mattioli at The Wall Street Journal - November 20, 2019
“Amazon’s smart speakers outship Google’s by almost triple, Canalys says” by Corinne Reichert at CNET - November 13, 2019
Amazon Black Friday Countdown deals
Amazon press release on Black Friday deals - November 18, 2019
Kindle Unlimited storefront
Click here to see your Kindle Unlimited subscription
The Weight of Ink and Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story by Rachel Kadish
The Forward Amazon Original Stories series, available on Kindle Unlimited
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion
Next Week’s Guest:
Sarah Gelman, Director of Books PR and Editorial at Amazon, giving an overview of the Best Books of 2019
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Author of the new short story collection, Nameless
“Once I came to that decision and came to Amazon, it has been so far one of the finest experiences I’ve ever had, working with the people in Amazon Original Stories and Amazon Publishing at Thomas & Mercer. Writers can’t ask for more supportive, more interesting people to work with. So it turned out to be the right decision.”
Links
DeanKoontz.com
Dean Koontz’s author page at Amazon.com
The Nameless short story collection at Amazon
Devoted by Dean Koontz - Available for pre-order with delivery March 31, 2020
Ricochet Joe by Dean Koontz
My previous interview with Dean Koontz on January 13, 2018 - TKC 493
Next Week’s Guest:
Natalia Montuori, GM Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading at Amazon
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Author, Editor, Professor & Speaker
Links
“The Best Amazon early Black Friday deals: Here’s what’s hot” by Rick Broida at CNET - November 7, 2019
Jane Friedman’s blog and newsletters, Electric Speed (free) and The Hot Sheet (paid subscription)
How to Reform Capitalism by The School of Life
The Business of Being a Writer by Jane Friedman
Next Week’s Guest:
Dean Koontz, author of the six-story Nameless series that will be released by Amazon Publishing on November 12, 2019
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The Yorkie Claire
June 7, 2005 - October 24, 2019
Links
Kindle Kids Edition - $110 at Amazon.com
YouTube video of Claire picking John Aga as the winning entry for a Fire Tablet nine years ago
Instagram photos of our Yorkie Claire, RIP
All the Dogs of My Life by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Video of Claire chasing a ball on Christmas, 2015
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This episode is dedicated to the memory of our Yorkie Claire, peacefully departed from this world here in Maine yesterday.
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Director, Kids and Family at Amazon
Interview starts at 13:20 and ends at 40:57
Links
Amazon Go store locations
“Report of Amazon Go Coming to Airports Is a Sign of Far Greater Change to Come” by Chris Walton at Forbes - October 10, 2-019
Amazon’s Leadership Principles
Kindle Kids Edition
Rick Riordan author’s page at Amazon.com
Primed Podcast from KUOW in Seattle
Land of the Giants podcast from Vox
“Introducing the News app on Fire TV” by Puneet Puri at the Fire TV blog - October 22, 2019
The Daily Recount
Instagram photos of our Yorkie Claire, RIP
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This episode is dedicated to the memory of our Yorkie Claire, peacefully departed from this world here in Maine yesterday.
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Retired Elementary School Teacher in Upton, Wyoming
Interview starts at 5:31 and ends at 33:07
Links
“Millions of Amazon Echo and Kindle Devices Affected by WiFi Bug” by Lawrence Abrams at Bleeping Computer - October 17, 2019
Christi Ross Crain interviewed as Teacher of the Year in 2012 (YouTube)
Upton, Wyoming
Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence by Bill O’Reilly
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel and Reamde: A Novel by Neal Stephenson
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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
Interview starts at 13:04 and ends at 51:49
“We don’t want to be constantly wired. We don’t want brain implants. We just want the ability to get information and communication when we need it and the way we need it. Amazon is essentially saying, ‘in your car, on your ear, in your pocket? Sure. In your environment, your home. We’re just going to thread all this together, so that you can use it when you need it, and it just disappears in the background when you don’t.’”
Links
“Is Amazon Unstoppable?” by Charles Duhigg at The New Yorker - October 10, 2019
“Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan” by Franklin Foer at The Atlantic - November, 2019
Amazon Fire HD 10 (2019) vs. Fire HD 10 (2017) by Simon Hill at Digital Trends - October 7, 2019
All-new Kindle Kids Edition ($110) at Amazon.com - Available October 30, 2019
Kindle with Audible Narration books
List of 10,000+ Whispersync for Voice-enabled books for children ages 9-12
IndieWire review of “Jexi” - October 11, 2019
Oura heartrate monitor ring
LOOMO personal robot - $1,799 at Amazon.com
Neal Stephenson’s author page at Amazon.com
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel and Reamde: A Novel by Neal Stephenson
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Apollo by Catherine Bly Cox and Charles Murray
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Author of The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know
Interview starts at 15:54 and ends at 49:25
Links
LEGOLAND in Boston
“Why You should Remove All Color on Your iPhone” (YouTube) by All I Talk Is Tech - October 27, 2018
Echo Glow - $30
“Why you may have to wait longer to check out an e-book from your local library” by Jenny McGrath at Digital Trends - September 13, 2019
Macmillan CEO John Sargent’s letter announcing change in eBook sales to public libraries - July 25, 2019
“Why Angry Librarians Are Going to War with Publishers over E-Books” by Heather Schwedel at Slate - September 11, 2019
The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger
The Shatzkin Files
Mike Shatzkin’s essays about climate change and other topics at Medium
“Cheap Words: Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books?” by George Packer at The New Yorker - February 4, 2014
Books recommended by Mike Shatzkin:
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
Serious Eater: A Food Lover’s Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption by Ed Levine
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by Jill Abramson
Echo Flex - $25
Next Week’s Show
James McQuivey, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
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Your Host in front of the Spheres at Amazon in Seattle
Amazon press releases related to media briefing on September 26, 2019:
8 New Echo Devices
Devices and Services for Smart Home
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Next week's guest: Mike Shatzkin
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Host of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast
Links
Solopreneur Hour Podcast
The Art of the Interview Course
Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine
Flyte New Media, founded by Rich Brooks
Jen Lehner Media
Jen Lehner’s Alexa Flash Briefing course
Soundup
Next Week’s Show
Mike Shatzkin, creator of The Shatzkin Files
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Director of Deaf Ministries, Baptist International Outreach
Note: I am very grateful to David Peach for covering Digital Book World on his own for The Kindle Chronicles this year, which enabled me to spend important time with my family.
Links
Baptist International Outreach
Joshua Tallent of Firebrand Technologies
Eda Gimenez of Buncee
Paul Frank of The Bloom Library
American Library Association’s take on the Macmillan issue:
Buncee
Dave Gunn of the DAISY Consortium
Bloom Library
National Book Foundation
Next Week’s Show
Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine
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Author of The Everything Store
Interview starts at 16:31 and ends at 28:37
“I’m resuming the story. It’s the story of Alexa and the Amazon Go project, their international expansion, and AWS and the explosion in the Amazon Marketplace and then of course society coming to grips with this technology giant in its midst.”
News
“E Ink is working on new color e-paper solutions” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - August 31,2019
Digital Book World 2019 tickets sold out in Nashville
Tech Tips
Fintie Slimshell Case for All-New Kindle Oasis - $10 at Amazon.com
Prime Reload
“Alexa Can Help You Find Lost Items Around Your House” by Brendan Hesse at Lifehacker 0- August 30, 2019
Interview with Brad Stone
Books by Brad Stone: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon and The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
Comments
Sticky Notes podcast
Next Week’s Show
David Peach will be covering for me at Digital Book World 2019
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Director, Adoption at Khoros in London
Interview starts at 16:20 and ends at 49:09
“I find the Kindle good for highlighting, not as good for note taking. Even though I think that functionality has improved over the years, typing on the keypad on the Kindle doesn’t work great for me. So depending on what I want to do and the type of book determines whether I want to go print version or read it on the Kindle.”
News
“Aggressive Amazon tactic pushes you to consider its own brand before you click ‘buy’” by Jay Greene at The Washington Post - August 28, 2019
Tech Tip
read.amazon.com/notebook
“External drive support in iOS 13 makes it possible to easily share files with a Kindle” by Chance Miller at 9To5Mac - June 18, 2019
Interview with Bryan Person
My conversation with Bryan Person on TKC 89 - April 2, 2010
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (Audiobook)
TKC 534: My interview with Power Reader Simon Eskioldsen - October 26, 2018
Audible Captions
Audible Immersion Reading
Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution by Christoph Biermann
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David J. Epstein
Blinkist
Next Week’s Guest
Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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Author of Heavenly Body, with her grandson Beau
Interview starts at 21:06 and ends at 48:59
Installation and Test of Echo Auto
Interview with Stephanie Edgerly
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Editorial Director of Amazon Original Stories
Interview starts at 17:46 and ends at 36:41
“We are a publisher within the context of a technology company. And so we’re really eager to work with authors who are world builders who are really interested in applying that type of imagination and creativity beyond the page.”
News
Land of the Giants podcast with Jason del Rey
“Dean Koontz’s Jump to Amazon Publishing: Will Other Authors Follow?” by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - July 22, 2019
Interview with Julia Sommerfeld
Amazon Original Stories
Ricochet Joe by Dean Koontz
My interview with Dean Koontz for TKC 493 on January 13, 2018
“Dean Koontz Signs New Five-Book Deal with Amazon Publishing” - Amazon press release July 22, 2019
Dean Koontz’s author page at Amazon.com
Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter
The One Collection including “Parable” by Jess Walter and “Speed Grieving” by Allison Ellis
Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid - an Amazon Original Story
Disorder Collection including “The Best Girls” by Min Jin Lee
Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era collection
Exposure Collection including “Bad Therapist” by Evan Wright
Dark Corners Halloween collection (2018)
The Forward Collection (SciFi) - to be released on September 17, 2019
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April 29, 1929 - August 6, 2019
This week's show is about the passing of my mother and includes a conversation I had with her eight years ago. We titled the interview "Love in a Model A" and you'll hear why in the episode.
RIP, Mom.
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Author of The Pecan Man
Cassie’s web site
Amphibian Press YouTube interview with Cassie Selleck- August 6, 2018
The Pecan Man and The Truth About Grace by Cassie Dandridge Selleck
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Author of The Solar War
Interview starts at 15:38 and ends at 46:05
“In The Solar War, in the dark moments of the book, it really becomes about tribes of humans against other tribes of humans, and you wonder who’s going to triumph. And then what happens on the other side?”
News
All-New Kindle Oasis and leather cover
Interview with A. G. Riddle
The Long Winter trilogy by A. G. Riddle: Winter World, The Solar War, and The Lost Colony (available for pre-order, to be released on November 5, 2019)
Recursion: A Novel and Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World: A Novel by C. A. Fletcher
The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel by Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers
Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century’s Biggest Bestsellers by James W. Hall
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
My previous interviews with A. G. Riddle on July 21, 2018 and March 7, 2019
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Stacey Lamberti, left, and Amy Stevens
Interviews start at 15:05 and end at 45:57
News
“Amazon Prime Day Topped $7 Billion: Internet Retailer” by Annie Gaus at TheStreet - July 18, 2019
Amazon press release on Prime Day results
Interviews with beachgoers at Old Orchard Beach, Maine
Kim Pilon from Ottawa, Canada:
The Islanders: A Novel by Meg Mitchell Moore
Alan Crowell from The Villages in Florida and Old Orchard Beach, Maine
Books by Paul Doiron
Robert Parker’s Author Page at Amazon.com
Robert Parker’s Jesse Stone series
Kindle Unlimited
- J. Box’s Author Page at Amazon.com
Amy Stevens of Barre, VT:
Only One Life: A Novel by Ashley Farley
Stacey Lamberti of Barre, VT:
Christian romance authors Karen Kingsbury and Kimberly Rae Jordan
Debbie from Montreal:
Kobo Aura Edition 2
Books by Vince Flynn, Daniel Silva, Alex Berenson, Brad Thor, Brad Taylor, and James Patterson
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Adam from Oxford, MA:
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle Book 1) by Patrick Rothfuss
Nicole from Oxford, MA:
The Witches of St. Petersberg: A Novel by Imogen Edwards-Jones
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Presenter of Digital Book World Sept. 10-12 in Nashville
Interview starts at 17:04 and ends at 54:36
“This is a very unique conference. There’s nothing quite like it. It’s time well spent for anybody who touches in any way publishing or technology.”
News
Chris Walton’s speculations on Prime Day of the future
Amazon’s big new employee training program announced
Peter Kafka interview with Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud
Tech Tip
Interview with Bradley Metrock
Digital Book World 2019 in Nashville September 10-12, 2019 at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel
Collaborative Knowledge Foundation
Bloom Library
Simon & Schuster’s Stephen King Library
Mike Shatzkin’s blog
Samsung’s Bixby 2.0
This Week in Voice podcast
Amazon’s Alexa Conversations
The Voice of Healthcare Summit August 5-6 at Harvard Medical School, Boston
Lifepod
Project Voice January 13-20, 2020 in Chattanooga
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Author of How Could She: A Novel
Interview starts at 17:29 and ends at 45:54
“This book is about female friendship and how devastating and wonderful it can be.” (Photo Copyright by Nina Subin)
News
“50 Million Americans Are Queuing Up For Amazon Prime Day 2019: What to Expect” by Pamela N. Danziger at Forbes - June 28, 2019
“This is your secret weapon for Amazon Prime Day deals” by Clifford Colby at CNET - July 5, 2019
Amazon Prime Day is July 15 and 16!
Interview with Lauren Mechling
How Could She: A Novel
Slate Political Gabfest
WTF Podcast with Marc Maron
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Just a few of Amazon’s Best Books of the Year So Far
Interview starts at 12:58 and ends at 45:20
“(Erin Kodicek:) So June is the halfway marker for the year, and it’s also a time when a lot of people are going on vacation. So they’re going to want to leave filling their bags and filling their Kindles with books. If you’re having trouble filling those things with, we are happy to help you. Just visit Amazon.com/bestbookssofar. ”
Interview with Chris Schluep and Erin Kodicek
Amazon’s Best Books of the Year So Far
Press release announcing best books of the year so far - June 18, 2019
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (Amazon’s best book of the year for 2018)
Erin Kodicek’s Amazon Book Review podcast interview with Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls, the best book of the year so far for 2019
The Signature of All Things: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad - 576 pages!
Next Week’s Guest
Lauren Mechling, author of How Could She?
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Co-founder of N2Kindle
Interview starts at 19:21 and ends at 49:24
“The thing that we’re doing is we’re changing the newsletter into a Kindle-friendly format, and then we forward them automatically. It would be a huge hassle to do that by yourself and to do that every morning or for every edition that you want to receive, so that’s the thing that we’re doing in the background.”
News
Information on Amazon fulfillment center tours
Forbes review of all-new Kindle Oasis
Comments on new Oasis at redditKindle
Amazon announces a new Off To College Store
Anjali Sud, former Amazon exec now CEO of Vimeo, interviewed on Recode Media by Peter Kafka
Tech Tip
“External drive support in iOS makes it possible to easily share files with a Kindle” by Chance Miller at 9TO5Mac - June 18, 2019
“How to share files between iPhone and Kindle with iOS 13” by napabar at YouTube - June 18, 2019
Apple Lightning to USB3 Camera Adapter at Amazon.com - $31
Interview with Noah Magel
Technical University of Munich
N2Kindle website
The Highlighter Newsletter by Mark Isero
Substack and Revue
Axios and Skim newsletters
Readwise
My interview with Tracy Schultz, Amazon’s head of product for Kindle reading
Next Week’s Guest
Chris Schluep and Erin Kodicek, members of the Amazon Books team who will discuss their recently released Best Books of the Year So Far list.
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Manager of the Amazon Literary Partnership
Interview starts at 15:41 and ends at 52:45
“I feel strongly that everyone has a story, and everyone deserves to have the opportunity to tell their story. The rest of us don’t have an obligation to buy that story, but if it’s out in the world and there’s a way for people to find it, that’s doing good work.”
News
“What exactly is the point of Amazon’s Treasure Truck?” by Kaitlyn Tiffany at Vox - May 28, 2019
“Amazon to Joe Biden: We pay all the taxes we owe” at by Lydia DePillis at CNN Business - June 13, 2019
Interview with Neal Thompson
Amazon Literary Partnership 2019
“Amazon Literary Partnership Announces 2019 Grant Recipients” - press release May 20, 2019
Examples of organizations receiving support from Amazon Literary Partnership: Words Without Borders, Pen America World Voices Festival and Best Translated Book Awards, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Cave Canem, Kundiman, Black Mountain Institute (creator of the City of Asylum program), Young Writers Project, Transit Books, Hurston/Wright Foundation
Amazon Literary Partnership web site
Academy of American Poets (creator of the Poem-a-Day skill for Alexa)
Hugo House
Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature programs
Books by Neal Thompson: Kickflip Boys: A Memoir of Freedom, Rebellion, and the Chaos of Fatherhood, A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert “Believe It or Not!” Ripley Light This Candle: The Life and Times of Alan Shephard, and Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR
Books recommended by Neal Thompson: Working by Robert A. Caro, The Library Book by Susan Orlean, The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead (available for preorder with delivery July 16, 2019), and Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Next Week’s Guest
Noah, a co-founder of N2Kindle
Please check out my latest video review, “How to Choose a Kindle.”
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Your Host beside the Blue Origin capsule
Links
Excerpts from Jeff Bezos’s fireside chat at re:MARS on June 6, 2019
AI Today podcast hosted by Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer of Cognilytica
Next Week’s Guest
Neal Thompson, director of the Amazon Literary Partnership
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Author of Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas To Become a Digital Leader
Interview starts at 2:38 and ends at 35:46
“I don’t think that part of the story of Amazon and Bezos gets told enough, about how he bet on himself and on the idea of Amazon. They stuck with it when everybody was a naysayer. They stuck with it for a long period of time when the stock was flat and there was no wealth being created. I think it’s really the all-American dream, how Amazon has progressed. I don’t think that story gets told enough. ”
News
“Amazon debuts a new Echo Show amid Alexa privacy concerns” by Lauren Goode at Wired - May 29, 2019
Echo Show 5 available for pre-order at Amazon.com
Interview with John Rossman
Rossman Partners
Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas to Become a Digital Leader by John Rossman
Jeff Bezos’s 2018 Letter to Shareholders
Comments
Mark Isero’s Kindle Classroom Project
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, and The Mueller Report
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
Shoshana Zuboff interviewed by Recode’s Kara Swisher (via Vox) - February 20, 2019
Next Week’s Show
My report from Amazon’s re:MARS conference to be hosted by Jeff Bezos in Las Vegas
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Amazon’s Head of Product for Kindle Reading
Interview starts at 18:29 and ends at 47:37
News
“How creepy is your smart speaker” in The Economist - May 11, 2019
Alexa Guard
“Amazon Alexa’s New ‘Guard’ Can Help Keep Your Home Safe While You’re Away” by Emily Price at Fortune - May 15, 2019
Interview with Tracy Schultz
Upcoming Shows
Next Week: John Rossman, author of Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas to Become a Digital Leader
TKC 566 on June 7, 2019: My report from Amazon’s re:MARS conference to be hosted by Jeff Bezos in Las Vegas
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Peter Tighe, my cousin who lives in Austin
Interview starts at 11:09 and ends at 38:27
News
Amazon updates the Fire 7 Tablet - press release on May 16, 2019
Tech Tip
Nadene Laird’s review of the MobiScribe E Ink tablet
Interview with Peter Tighe
Aira web site
“Aira at SXSW” - March 8, 2019 at Aira website
2019 Interactive Innovation Awards Winners at SXSW
Aira Pricing Plans
“Get Paid to Help the Blind from Home: Aira Seeks Part-Time Agents in San Francisco” at Lighthouse - May 16, 2019
Voice Dream Scanner app for iOS
Comments
Amazon’s information on eTextbooks
Kindle eBooks for teams and groups
Upcoming Shows
Next week: Tracy Schultz, Senior Manager of Product Management - Kindle Reader
TKC 564 on May 31, 2019: John Rossman, author of Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas to Become a Digital Leader
TKC 565 on June 7, 2019: My report from Amazon’s re:MARS conference to be hosted by Jeff Bezos in Las Vegas
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Editor of The Amazon Chronicles newsletter
Interview starts at 16:32 and ends at 49:27
“You can imagine an Amazon without Alexa that is still very successful, but Alexa is a huge key to Amazon’s future.”
Intro
Aira glasses for the blind
News
“Assisted Living Community Gives Every Resident ‘Alexa’ to Help Keep Their Independence” at CBS13 in Sacramento - May 7, 2019
Eskaton communities
Echo Dot on sale for $29.99 Amazon.com (regular price $49.99)
“Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is back on sale for $40 off” by David Carnoy at CNET - May 5, 2019
Kindle Paperwhite at Amazon.com (Using this link to buy one benefits TKC with Associates commission - thank you!)
Kindle Paperwhite Essentials bundle (includes leather case and power adapter) on sale for $150 - $60 off
Interview with Tim Carmody
The Amazon Chronicles newsletter
Articles by Tim Carmody published in Wired Magazine
Noticing newsletter by Tim Carmody at kottke.org
“Unlocking the Commons” by Tim Carmody at Nieman Lab
Inside Amazon newsletter
KUOW’s Primed Podcast
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Author of Keep Going at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver
Dialog starts at 5:33 and ends at 40:34
“So we all like to think that if we could just change our circumstances we’d be more creative. I could just move to Paris, rent a light-filled studio, maybe buy a beret, fall in with a gang of misfits.Then I could really paint my masterpiece. But we know this is wishful thinking, that everything we need to make our good work is here. We just have to pay more attention to it.”
News
“Amazon plans to create 400 tech jobs in Denver with new office expansion” by Lauren Feiner at CNBC - April 30, 2019
Amazon press release on Denver expansion
Tech Tip
Kindle firmware updates
Links related to Austin Kleon’s presentation
Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver
Robert Creeley
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things that Happened by Allie Brosh
Content
Think Like Amazon: 50 ½ Ideas to Become a Digital Leader by John Rossman
Next Week’s Guest
Tim Carmody, Editor of The Amazon Chronicles newsletter
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Graduating senior in mechanical engineering
at Saint Louis University
Interview starts at 5:57 and ends at 28:32
News
“Elizabeth Warren’s really simple case for breaking up big tech” by Zack Beauchamp at Vox - April 22, 2019
“Amazon says its private labels are only 1% of its business, but new data shows some are seeing huge growth” by Dennis Green at Business Insider
Amazon earnings report at The Washington Post - April 25, 2019
Interview with Sarah Rock
Saint Louis University
Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS)
Go Baby Go
Arduino
Kaitlin Gallatin, Luke Vest, and Paul Richard (starts at 25:35 and ends at 35:47)
Matthew O’Brien (starts at 35:49 and ends at 42:55)
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Amazon’s Director of Sales & Marketing for Kindle eReaders & Fire Tablets
Interview starts at 15:36 and ends at 46:17
“We find that customers--whether it’s our entry Kindle, our Paperwhite, our Oasis program--you can find voracious readers on any of those devices, reading many, many books a month and really enjoying their devices and consistently using them every day. ”
News
“The Inner Bezos” by Chip Bayers at Wired Magazine - March 1, 1999
Jeff Bezos 2018 Letter to Shareholders
Interview with Allen Hughes
Harry Potter: The Complete Collection (1-7) on Kindle by J. K. Rowling
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
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Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Interview starts at 12:02 and ends at 52:12
“We used Future Fitness to describe this concept, because we wanted to make it clear that it is not measuring a fixed attribute. This is not a personality trait. In fact, we avoid the word ‘trait’ deliberately, because although there are traits obviously related here, almost everything that we’re measuring is something that you can change--if you want to. If you want to become more future fit you can.”
News
Press release announcing all-new entry-level Kindle - March 20, 2019
All-New Kindle at Amazon.com
2018 Letter to Shareholders from Jeff Bezos
Interview with James McQuivey
“Introducing Forrester Future Fit: Are You Fit Enough to Share in a World of Intelligent Technologies?” by James McQuivey at Forrester.com - April 1, 2019
My previous conversation with James on TKC 538 in November, 2019
The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel
To take the Forrester Future Fit diagnostic survey, click here: http://forr.com/futurefit
James McQuivey’s blog and Future Fitness next steps
Click here to contribute to Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children, the organization that is sponsoring James McQuivey’s run in the Boston Marathon on April 15th.
Next Week’s Guest
A member of Amazon’s Kindle team will talk with us about the all-new basic Kindle
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Author of the Legends of the First Empire and Riyria series
Interview starts at 10:01 and ends at 43:57
On writing fantasy: “The world should just build in the background. You should get to know it by experience, not by having to be told in page after page and getting a whole world history, because that’s boring. People tend to skim that kind of stuff. I like to try and write so if people skim they’ll totally ruin the book, and I try to make everything entertaining enough that they won’t want to.”
News
“Amazon is Making a Rival to Apple’s AirPods as Its First Alexa Wearable” by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg - April 4, 2019
“Jeff Bezos, in divorce settlement, retains 75 percent of the Amazon stock he held with his now ex-wife MacKenzie” by Craig Timberg and Greg Bensinger at The Washington Post - April 4, 2019
Interview with Michael J. Sullivan
Age of Legend Kickstarter project
Books by Michael J. Sullivan at Amazon.com
Next Week’s Guest
James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, who will present a webinar April 23, 2019 at 11 - 11:45 am ET titled “Are You Fit for the Future? You Can’t Shape the Future with Tools You Don’t Have”
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Founder and CEO of IMDb
Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 52:50
“In 1990, if you’d have said to me ‘You know the service that you’ve just launched, one day you’ll be able to interact with that by voice with a device that’s this big in your kitchen.’ I’d be like, ‘Really?’ Now it’s kind of like an everyday experience.”
News
Fire HD 10 tablet on sale for $100 - a price cut of $50
Kindle Voyage - $130 on Amazon’s Woot site ($90 off)
“Open road Integrated Media Shows 36% YoY Revenue Growth in January 2019” - press release March 26, 2019
Association of American Publishers stats for January 2019
Tech Tips
reMarkable tablet ($599) versus Rocketbook ($30) versus MobiScribe ($214)
Kindle for Mac update (1.25.2)
Kindle sort by unread and read coming (Good E-Reader)
Interview with Col Needham
IMDb
“Behind the Scenes at IMDb” by Elias Wolfberg at Amazon’s Day One blog - February 28, 2018
Next Week’s Guest
Michael J. Sullivan, author of the Riyria fantasy series.
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Author of Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
“When I first started out, if you had told me that my books were going to be shelved in Self Help, I would never have believed you. And when I first got started I had no idea there was such a thing as an illustrated gift book. I just didn’t know that those genres existed in publishing. The really fun thing for me about doing this kind of book is that it allows me to be as weird as I want to be in a mainstream format. That is the great gift that these books have given to me.”
Links related to my interview with Austin Kleon:
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon - Available for pre-order with release on April 2, 2019
Other books by Austin Kleon at Amazon.com
“The Gulp” at Austin’s blog - March 18, 2019
My interview with Austin Kleon on TKC 295 - March 26, 2014
Austin’s book tour schedule starting April 2, 2019
Next Week’s Guest
Col Needham, founder and CEO of Amazon’s IMDb, the number one movie website in the world, with more than 250 million unique monthly visitors.
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The Gaming Hall at South By Southwest
On this last of my TKC updates from South By, I will tell you why I'm not going to sell my small stake in Bitcoin any time soon. Also, a tourist's view of the high-energy gaming track at SXSW.
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Len on the main escalator at the Austin Convention Center
Neil Pasricha, director of the Institute for Global Happiness
Neil Pasricha’s books at Amazon
“Four Ways of Looking at South By Southwest” by Len Edgerly at Medium - March 14, 2019
The Texas Tribune
John Hickenlooper and Pete Buttigieg websites
CNN Town Hall with Pete Buttegieg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXD8uFU-xgM
CNN Town Hall with John Delaney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HxWAL5RDMM
“Nothing to Be Written” VR project by the BBC
Next Week’s Guest
Austin Kleon, author of Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad - available for pre-order with delivery April 2, 2019
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This is the view from the big escalator at the Austin Convention Center, where I am attending a session about the Hope and Hype of Blockchain. Also in this TKC Extra I share an unusual experience I had yesterday while visiting senior living communities with my cousin Peter, who is blind. Thanks for listening!
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I plan to upload brief segments each day this week from Austin, where I am attending South By Southwest through Sunday. So much to learn!
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Author of Winter World
Interview starts at 17:30 and ends at 43:00
“My books almost always deal with an extinction-level event or the pushing of humanity to the brink at times.”
Comments
Mark Isero’s Kindle Classroom Project
Kindle Direct Publishing eBook Quality Dashboard
Interview with A G Riddle
A G Riddle’s books at Amazon.com
My interview with A G Riddle in July, 2018 on TKC 520
News
Amazon to stop selling its Dash buttons - Fast Company and BBC
Last-Ditch effort to save NYC Amazon Jobs - The Hill
“How Amazon Taught the Echo Auto to Hear You In a Noisy Car” by Dhananjay Motwani at Wired - March 4, 2019
“How Amazon’s Algorithms Curated a Dystopian Bookstore” by Joel Saget at Wired - March 5, 2018
“Amazon to reportedly close all of its 87 pop-up stores in the US beginning in April” by Todd Haselton at CNBC - march 6, 2019
“Health Venture of Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan Has a Name: Haven” by Anna Wilde Mathews at The Wall Street Journal - March 6, 2019 (Note: My audio erroneously says the third partner is Chase instead of JPMorgan.)
Next Week’s Show - Almost-Live from South By Southwest Interactive
TKC 555 on March 22 - Bestselling author Michael J. Sullivan
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Len teaching a creative writing class at Belmont Hill School
Audio starts at 12:59 and ends at 54:39
News
“Amazon Alexa and the Search for the One Perfect Answer” by James Vlahos at Wired - February 18, 2019
Tech Tip
“How to hear (and delete) every conversation your Amazon Alexa has recorded” by Natt Garun at The Verge - February 28, 2019
Audio from my presentation at Belmont Hill School
Blue Yeti microphone - $103 at Amazon.com
Libsyn.com
Wattpad
Medium
MailChimp
Tech Tonic podcast with John Thornhill
Evil Genius podcast with Dave Slusher
Pardon My Take podcast
The Joe Rogen Experience podcast
Next Week’s Guest
AG Riddle, author of Winter World, released February 26, 2019
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Executive Director of Two Lions and Amazon Crossing Kids
Interview starts at 23:18 and ends at 43:02
“We would really love to discover books from all over the globe, especially from diverse regions that may not be as well-known to a young English readership. We want the list to be dynamic and really showcase every possible language and culture that we’re able to.”
News
“How New York Lost Amazon” on The Daily podcast - February 21, 2019
“Amazon’s grave HQ2 mistake: The political landscape changed but the company’s playbook didn’t” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - February 15, 2019
“Amazon Go and Scan-&-Go Detractors Need to Stop Burying Their Heads in the Sand Like Ostriches” by Chris Walton at Forbes - February 15, 2019
“Amazon’s Echo Wall Clock is back on sale after connectivity fix” byAJ Dellinger at Engadget - February 18, 2019
Echo Wall Clock at Amazon.com - $29.99
Tech Tips
AmazonBasics Microwave with Alexa - $59.99 at Amazon.com
Wait Wait Quiz skill for Alexa
Vintage Radio skill for Alexa
“Alexa Cast Sends Music from the Amazon Music App to Alexa Devices” at Love My Echo
Amazon Music streaming with Alexa Cast - Amazon.com
Interview with Kelsey Skea
Amazon press release announcing Amazon Crossing Kids - January 25, 2019
“Amazon Publishing Launches Amazon Crossing Kids” by John Maher at Publishers Weekly - January 25, 2019
Amazon Crossing Kids, Two Lions and Amazon Crossing imprints
Corduroy by Don Freeman, Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell and Lillian Hoban, Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey, and the Babar books by Jean De Brunhoff and Isabel Alonso Gomes
To be published in 2019 by Amazon Crossing Kids: Spiky by Ilaria Guarducci translated by Laura Watkinson (July 1), A Tiger Like Me by Michael Engler translated by Laura Watkinson (September 1), and Along the Tapajós by Fernando Vilela translated by Daniel Hahn (October 1, 2019)
Click here to propose a book for translation by Amazon Crossing
Next Week’s Guest
A. G. Riddle, author of Winter World, available for pre-order, to be released February 26, 2019
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Author of Early Riser: A Novel
Interview starts at 11:47 and ends at 39:00
News
Amazon to buy Eero - in Wired and Yahoo Finance
Amazon drops plans for HQ2 in New York (Washington Post)
Tech Tips
VoiceBrew podcast on Alexa tips (via Bradley Metrock’s This Week in Voice podcast)
Interview with Jasper Fforde
Early Riser: A Novel at Amazon.com
Early Riser web site and “What’s the book about?”
Shades of Grey: A Novel
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
Three episodes of the Bonanza TV series - free on Prime Video
The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
Comments
Classical music list from listener John Aga:
- Leonard Bernstein's Young People’s Guide to Classical Music available through YouTube: They are broken into 95 easily digestible clips over many public concerts.
- Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (Ode To Joy portion) as done by a musical flash mob.
- George Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue. https://youtu.be/cH2PH0auTUU
- Edvard Grieg, Peer Gynt Suite Number 1. https://youtu.be/dyM2AnA96yE
- P.Dukas. The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
- Appalachian Spring - Aaron Copland LIVE.
- Pictures at an exhibition - Suite in 10 movements – Moussorgski.
- Rimsky-Korsakov. Scheherazade. Movement 1.
- Eine kleine Nachtmusik. Mozart.
- Simple Gifts as performed by Cantus.
- Puccini: “O mio babbino caro” / Performed by Renee Fleming.
John: Cantus is a particular favorite of mine and their home is here in Minnesota. This Tiny Desk Concert is courtesy of NPR. NPR has been doing a series of these Tiny Desk concerts for a long time.
Next Week’s Guest
Kelsey Skea, head of the new Amazon Crossing Kids imprint
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Author of Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Every Day
Interview starts at 18:16 and ends at 42:30
“I wanted to demystify the music itself, and I wanted to humanize the people who created it, because I think we often think about classical composers being these dead, white European guys invariably from Germany and Austria somewhere in the 18th century maybe with a frock coat, maybe with a powdered wig, definitely on some kind of pedestal occupying a lofty, elevated space that has no bearing on real people’s everyday lives. What’s incredibly humbling when you start to get to know these composers is that they’re just human beings like you and me, just trying to survive their lives, to express themselves through this particular art form.”
News
“No thank you, Mr. Pecker” by Jeff Bezos at Medium - February 7, 2019
"Facing opposition, Amazon reconsiders N.Y. headquarters site, two officials say" by The Washington Post - February 8, 2019
Kindle Paperwhite on sale for $100 - $30 off
Tech Tip
MobiScribe E-ink Notepad - $214
MobiScribe v5.18 Beginner’s guide
Rocketbook Everlast Reusable Smart Notebook - $30
AmazonBasics Alexa Microwave - $42
Interview with Clemency Burton-Hill
Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day by Clemency Burton-Hill
Year of Wonder playlists at iTunes and Spotify
WQXR Radio in New York City
Aria Code podcast
Scala Radio launch in the UK
Content
Early Riser: A Novel by Jasper Fforde - to be released February 12, 2019
Winter World by A. G. Riddle - to be released February 26, 2019
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin by Jan Stocklassa, translated by Tara F. Chace - to be released October 1, 2019
Next Week’s Guest
Kelsey Skea, head of the new Amazon Crossing Kids imprint
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Author of
This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See
Interview starts at 13:06 and ends at 45:08
“I have a bunch of regrets about how Amazon is steering the boat these days. One of the things I think they dropped the ball on is they’ve had a hundred opportunities to make Kindle a social platform, and they have dropped it. And they shouldn’t, because that is a really useful transformation--to be able to say ‘Where are the other thousand people who highlighted this? How can I have a discussion with them?’ That’s magic, and you can’t do it.” (Photo by Brian Bloom)
News
Amazon earnings release
Om Malik on Amazon earnings release
Tech Tip
How to load the Google Play Store onto your Fire tablet
Interview with Seth Godin
Seth Godin’s blog and The Marketing Seminar
This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin
Genius (formerly known as Rap Genius) commentary by Seth Godin on his book The Purple Cow
What to Do When It’s Your Turn (and It’s Always Your Turn) by Seth Godin
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
An Analog Novel (3 Book Series) by Eliot Peper
Content
The Killer Collective by Barry Eisler
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Tech Tip from John Aga
When installing the Google Play Store to your Fire tablet, it is important to do it in order as indicated in the article. I downloaded each one with a minute or two between downloads. I have a file manager app on my Fire tablet that not only displays the name of the file but the time the file was downloaded. You have to download them in a specific order then click and execute them in the same specific order. If you down load them a minute or two apart is easier then telling them apart based on their file name. It went smoothly when I did it. I was sure to download the file specified in the article even if I got messages that there was a newer versions available. I do not know if that was important or not but it was the approach I took. It will be important that Google Play Services and the Google Play Store are the first ones updated before downloading any other apps from the Google Play Store.
Some time after I have installed the Google Play Store on my Amazon Fire 10" HD tablet, I started to get the message " cannot access the server" whenever I opened the Google Play Store. To resolve this I went into settings, then clicked on Apps and Games, then clicked on Manage All Applications, then clicked on the app Google Play Store. Then I clicked on "clear cache, clear memory, and force stop". I then rebooted my tablet and the problem was gone. If it should happen again I would just repeat these steps to clear it up.
Another tech tip: On a separate subject I have notice that sometimes after I have updated one or more apps, one or more apps will move from the SD card back to internal memory. This is easily resolved. First click on settings. Second click on storage. Third all your settings should be set by default to include "install supported apps on your SD card". The other settings you want have on are to download movies, music, photos, personal videos, audiobooks and ebooks to your SD card. About one third down on the storage page the SD card and amount of storage is displayed. Just below that there is a command to "Move Apps to SD Card". Just below that it will either say "0" apps available or it will say if there are one or more apps available to move back to the SD card. Just click on that and it will automatically move any apps that moved back to internal during an app update and move them back to the SD card. This can take just a few seconds or a minute or two depending on how many apps there are to move back to the SD card. It is worth checking this once and awhile to ensure your Amazon Fire Tablet is using all storage in the most effective way possible.
Author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Interview starts at 15:43 and ends at 43:50
“You can be super clever and have all your tricks, but fundamentally everything in your life is crowding out something else in your life. At some point you have to choose, and the choice should be thoughtful.”
News
“The Prime Challenges for Amazon’s New Delivery Robot” by Matt Simon and Arielle Pardes Gear at Wired - January 23, 2019
“Meet Scout: Field testing a new delivery system with Amazon Scout” by Sean Scott at Amazon’s Day One blog - January 23, 2019
Tech Tip
Starbucks Reorder skill for Alexa
Interview with Tim Harford
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford
“How frustration can make us more creative” - TED talk by Tim Harford in September, 2015
“Tim Harford: how behavioral economics helped kick my phone addiction” at The Financial Times - January 17, 2019 (Behind paywall, try Googling the title)
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport - Available for pre-order, to be delivered February 5, 2019
Feedly
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter - Available for pre-order at Amazon.co.uk to be delivered March 28, 2019
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton
Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It by Chris Clearfield
Marie Kondo’s website
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy BBC podcast by Tim Harford
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
Fright Tonight Alexa skill
Content
Early Riser by Jasper Fforde - available for preorder (hardcover only) with delivery February 12, 2019
The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics by John Hickenlooper
Next Week’s Guest
Seth Godin, author of This Is Marketing: You Can’t be Seen Until You Learn to See
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Project Manager for MobiScribe reader/writer by TeamUC
Interview starts at 18:37 and ends at 41:06
“It’s basically going to be like a Kindle that you can write on. If you’ve ever had your work documents on the Kindle it must be frustrating, because you feel like you can’t write on your work documents even though you have it in a meeting. So now we have PDF annotation integrated into the device as well as a separate note-taking software.”
Comments
Open Road Integrated Media list of eBooks, by category
Sprocket Photo Paper and camera from Hewlett Packard
Polaroid Swinger camera, circa 1965 (Wikipedia)
“Alexa gains support for location-based reminders and routines, calling features and more” by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch - December, 2018
News
The challenge of covering the Bezos divorce for The Washington Post - Vanity Fair January 14, 2019
“Ghosts of former Sears buildings could become shiny new Whole Foods” at The Takeout - January 11, 2019
“Amazon is holding a public version of its secretive MARS conference” by Brian Heater at TechCrunch - January 17, 2019
“How behavioral economics helped kick my phone addiction” by Tim Harford at The Financial Times - January 17, 2019
Interview with Roger Wang
MobiScribe project at Indiegogo
Wacom
TeamUC Facebook page
APKPure
Calibre
reMarkable tablet
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Author of Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
Interview starts at 18:51and ends at 43:30
“So much of this stuff that, when we watch 2001 today, makes it feel fresh, makes it still feel futuristic was way ahead of its time at the time that the movie was created."
News
“The ‘Future Book’ is Here, But It’s Not What We Expected” by Craig Mod at Wired - December 20, 2018
Amazon Showroom - TechCrunch story
Amazon Key for Garage - Verge story
Echo Auto is shipping - TechCrunch story
Amazon pilot project with free samples - Axios story
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos to divorce - WSJ story
Tech Tip
Readwise now has autosync of your highlights
Interview with Dave Addey
Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
Content
Freedive, the new IMDB streaming service WSJ
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Chief Marketing Officer at Open Road Integrated Media
Interview starts at 9:51 and ends at 38:35
“I do think we’re unusual in that we consistently continue to market these books day in and day out for many years. I think that’s the benefit we bring to our partners in the Open Road Ignition program, that we are taking those eBooks that they don’t have time or resources to market in an ongoing way and doing it on their behalf.”
News
“Amazon, to Win in Booming Rural India, Reinvents Itself” by Eric Bellman at The Wall Street Journal - December 31, 2018
Russ Grandinetti interviewed for Amazon’s Day One Blog - November 14, 2017
“Hiring for Amazon’s Alexa team massively outpaces that of Apple’s Siri” by James Mattone at Thinknum - January 3, 2019
“Alexa, what’s a screen pass? Amazon speaker can teach football to casual NFL fans” by Edward C. Baig at USA Today - January 3, 2019
Tech Tip
Alexa voice commands for Hulu
Interview with Mary McAveney
Open Road Integrated Media
“New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out” by Alexandra Alter at The New York Times - December 29, 2018
Cane: A Library of America eBook Classic by Jean Toomer ($9.99 on Kindle)
Content
“The 50 Best TV Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now” at Paste - January 3, 2019
Comments
2019 Goodreads challenge
The Autobiography of Mark Twain: Deluxe Modern Classic
Echo Spot - $130 at Amazon.com
Next Week’s Guest
Dave Addey, author of Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
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Forbes contributor & co-founder of Omni Talk blog
Interview starts at 7:33 and ends at 41:04
“2018 was a watershed year in terms of how things transpired. This to me was really the year you saw Amazon try to become a physical retailer.”
News
Amazon holiday press release - December 26, 2018
Sphero Mini Blue: The App-Controlled Robot Ball
Tech Tip
Calibre
Recomendo
Fakespot
Fakespot Chrome extension
Interview with Chris Walton
Omni Talk blog
“Amazon’s New Mall of America Installation is Absolutely Fabulous” by Chris Walton at Forbes - October 2, 2018
Ryan ToysReview (YouTube channel with 17 million subscribers)
“The Nuance of Implicit Vs. Explicit Search Could Be Amazon’s Achilles Heel” by Chris Walton at Forbes - November 20, 2018
Amazon Spark
Glossier
Amazon Treasure Truck
Robomart
Zume Pizza
Content
Moby Dick: Complete and Unabridged (Illustrated with Included Audiobook) - 99 cents at Amazon.com
Next Week’s Guest
Dave Addey, author of Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
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Creator of Calibre
Interview starts at 9:53 and ends at 43:03
“So the first and most important thing that is different between a Calibre library and your Kindle collection is that you actually own the books in your Calibre library, whereas you stream them from Amazon for your Kindle collection. ”
News
Bradley Metrock on Barnes & Noble
Will Amazon buy Target? Jefferson Graham’s Talking Tech podcast (look for episode dated December 18, 2018)
Amazon Treasure Truck
Rocketbook Everlast Smart Reusable Notebook
Tech Tip
How to play Apple Music on Amazon Echo devices - Business Insider
Moby Dick by Herman Melville at Standard EBooks
Vector robot from Anki
Interview with Kovid Goyal
Calibre
Calibre listing of eBooks free of Digital Rights Management
Next Week’s Guest
Chris Walton, an original thinker in retail strategy and frequent Forbes contributor
Debut of “Ocean Park Blues”
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TV news anchor and author of the Traveler series
Interview starts at 10:21 and ends at 41:59
“Writing is a muscle, I think. If you don’t use it you lose that. Because I write every day both creatively and for my job, I think that’s part of what helps me to write as much as I do as quickly as I do. I write under deadline, so creating my own self-imposed deadlines is pretty easy. It’s just instead of having a time deadline I have a word-count deadline or a date. I think doing one every day actually helps doing the other every day.”
News
“Amazon has Thrown in the Towel on a Third Bookstore” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - December 7, 2018
Amazon’s physical stores
“Amazon Kindle Audible Bundle is now available” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - December 9, 2018
Kindle Paperwhite Audible bundle - $139
Tech Tip
“You can now ask Amazon Alexa to read your email messages and respond by voice--here’s how” by Todd Haselton at CNBC - December 10, 2018
Interview with Tom Abrahams
Tom Abrahams author page at Amazon.com
The Traveler (6 Book Series) by Tom Abrahams
The Alt Apocalypse (4 Book Series) by Tom Abrahams
“President George H. W. Bush’s aide Jim McGrath reflects on ‘perfect’ man” - Tom Abrahams story on ABC13 TV - December 2, 2018
Content
“What a 19th-century French novel tells us about Jeff Bezos and Amazon” by Ciara Byrne at FastCompany - December 10, 2018
The Ladies’ Paradise by Emile Zola
Outro
Thanks to Colter and Jaego for closing out this episode with their rousing rendition of the Australian national anthem. Their Dad’s podcast is The Sustainability Puzzle by Dan Short.
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Author of We Miss All the Great Parties
Interview starts at 2:12 and ends at 35:59
“I had this traditionalist view that I wanted to hold the paper book and feel the turning of the page. I was absolutely wrong in my assumptions. Reading on an eReader felt like reading. It was still this sort of cuddly, warm, meditative, reflective experience. I could sit and read for hours on it. It fit in my jacket pocket, and I could take it with me, and I found that I was reading more when I had my digital reader.”
News
“Amazon Prime Health is coming, according to an early investor” by Mark Sullivan at FastCompany - November 30, 2018
Morning Consult picks Amazon as the most-loved brand in the U.S.
Interview with David Hopkins
“How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization: The one where we retain our sanity in a stupid world” by David Hopkins at Medium - March 22, 2016
Articles published by David Hopkins in D Magazine
David Hopkins at Medium
“Friends” on Netflix
Pod Save America
“The Unfortunate Appeal of the Heroic Idiot” TEDxSMU talk by David Hopkins - December 9, 2016
Wim Bens, president & Founder of Lakewood Brewing Co.
We Miss All the Great Parties by David Hopkins
Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers
“The Lowest Animal” by Mark Twain (PDF)
Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion
The Walking Dead series by Robert Kirkman
“‘Yeah, I’m Not for Everyone.’ Lena Dunham comes to terms with herself” by Allison P. Davis at New York Magazine - November 2, 2018
Ask Me Anything
When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning
“Gobble Gobble - What’s the Deal with Thanksgiving?”
Next Week’s Guest
Tom Abrahams, author of Home: A Post Apocalyptic/Dystopian Adventure (The Traveler Book 1)
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News
“Amazon gets into the blockchain with Quantum Ledger Database & Managed Blockchain” by Sara Perez at TechCrunch - November 28, 2018
Bitcoin Price Plummets
CoinBase (my app of choice for buying Bitcoin)
“Apple Music to launchy on Amazon Echo speakers” by Tim Bradsha at The Financial Times - November 29, 2018
“Introducing medical language processing with Amazon Comprehend Medical” by Dr. Taha A. Kass-Hout and Dr. Matt Wood at the AWS blog - November 27, 2018
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
eBook promotions on Black Friday in Poland
Ask Me Anything (AMA) links
2010 TKC episode recorded at Tau Game Lodge in South Africa (audio only)
TKC 378 Hola from Ecuador!s
TKC 529 interview with author Scott Pratt, recorded at Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford, Maine
TKC 336 interview with poet John Ashbery
Next Week’s Guest
Tom Abrahams, author of Home: A Post Apocalyptic/Dystopian Adventure (The Traveler Book 1)
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Vice Principal and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
Interview starts at 2:28 and ends at 38:32
“Nobody can see the future, but what we can see from the past is that it unfolds according to certain properties. What [Virginia Postrel, author of The Future and Its Enemies] wrote that was so compelling was that the best properties to help that unfold in the best way are properties of experimentation, of testing, of openness, of collaboration, of letting people try what people do in an environment where they get feedback from the marketplace and then they can respond.”
Interview with James McQuivey
Bradley Metrock’s This Week in Voice interview with Brian Roemmelle, starting at Roemelle’s estimate that Amazon has 10,000 people working on Alexa. November 15, 2018
Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey
Paleo cheese puffs by LesserEvil at Amazon.com
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel
Content
“Ben Sasse: By the Book” in The New York Times - November 21, 2018
Them: Why We Hate Each Other and How to Heal by Ben Sasse
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
Next Week’s Show
Since Darlene and I will be traveling next week in Tucson and Denver, I’m thinking of doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) show based on your questions or comments. Please email them to me at podchronicles AT gmail DOT com. Thanks!
Outro
Vector robot by Anki at Amazon.com
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Amazon Books Senior Editor
Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 39:11
“We often talk about accessibility. We start there. We talk about quality of writing. The story is important, obviously. Maybe the thing that gets you over the line is your visceral reaction to the book. How much are you willing to argue for it? You win some, and you lose some. Ultimately I think we come up with a great list. Every book on the Top 20 is a great book.”
News
Amazon’s announcement of HQ2
Jeff Bezos tells employees that one day Amazon will fail. (CNBC)
Author Scott Pratt dies in an auto accident (The Passive Voice)
The Sins of the Mother by Scott Pratt and Mark Stout
Richard Hollick’s sensible take on HQ2 (Making Book)
Amazon’s Black Friday Week deals
Tech Tip
Amazon Key Home Delivery
Interview with Chris Schluep
Amazon Best Books of 2018 list
The Amazon Book Review Podcast, available via iTunes
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Content
Amazon’s Best Books of 2018
Next Week’s Guest
James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research
Outro
9News Anchor Steve Staeger interviews me about being Carless in Denver.
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Author of the Breakthrough series
Interview starts at 9:36 and ends at 40:28
News
Amazon to split HQ2 between two cities (Wall Street Journal)
Amazon announces free shipping with no minimum purchase for the holidays
My video of a dunk test for the all-new Kindle Paperwhite plus Darlene’s comments
Interview with Michael C. Grumley
Breakthrough series by Michael C. Grumley: Breakthrough, Leap, Catalyst, and Ripple
Words with Friends
“Could we speak the language of dolphins?” TED2013 talk by Denise Herzing
“Can we really do it? The language of dolphins could be translated by 2012” by Michael C. Grumley - May 8, 2017
Content
Amazon Book Review podcast
The Washington Post recommends 10 books to read in November
Comments
CZUR scanner
Next Week’s Guest
Chris Schluep, Amazon’s Senior Editor for books, talking about his team’s picks for the best books of 2018.
For those interested in our experience with a Tesla Model 3, I uploaded a new episode of The Edge of the Road Podcast detailing some minor problems with the car. I still love it, though.
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Vice President, Macmillan Podcasts & QDT
Interview starts at 9:43 and ends at 40:01
“We can think of podcasting as an entry point to audiobooks. They are less of a commitment, they are free, they can actually give you great insights into book discovery. Podcasts can move at a more rapid pace.”
News
Jeff Bezos in Cambridge!
Black Friday deals
Harlequin makes an eReader platform change
4-Star Amazon store coming to Denver
Tech Tip
Live Ballot on Alexa
Interview with Kathy Doyle
Macmillan Podcasts
“How to Listen to a Podcast with Ira and Mary” (YouTube) - October 3, 2014
Grammar Girl
Quick and Dirty Tips
Mignon Fogarty author page at Amazon.com
I Love You, But I Hate Your Politics podcast
Steal the Stars podcast, audiobook, and novel
But That’s Another Story podcast with Will Schwalbe
The Savvy Psychologist podcast with Ellen Hendriksen, PhD
How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety by Ellen Hendriksen, PhD and Audiobook
Dirty John show
Panoply podcast network
Nutrition Diva podcast
The Argument - New York Times podcast
Slow Burn - Slate podcast
Masters of Scale podcast with Reid Hoffman
Digital Book World 2019
Comments
Heavenly Body by my sister, Stephanie Edgerly
Next Week’s Guest
Michael C. Grumley, author of the Breakthrough series
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Site Reliability Engineering Lead at Shopify
Interview starts at 10:07 and ends at 43:36
“If someone were to come around with some hardware that was even 50 percent worse than the Kindle but was opened up for easy highlight consumption, making it easier to see what highlights my friends have done, and all these sorts of things--I would switch in a heartbeat. ”
News
“Amazon Kindle versus iPhone XS Max: choosing the best e-book reader” at AppleInsider - October 24, 2018
“Jeff Bezos wants us all to leave earth--for good” by Steven Levy at Wired - October 15, 2018
Interview with Simon Eskildsen
“How I Read” by Simon Eskildsen at his blog - July, 2018
Shopify
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander (not available on Kindle)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Listen Notes
Readwise
Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
Content
Heavenly Body by Stephanie Edgerly (my sister) was released this week at the Kindle Store for $5.49. Highly recommended!
Next Week’s Guest
Kathy Doyle, vice president - podcasting at Macmillan Publishers
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Joerg Tewes, Head of Kindle Product Management, and
Kevin Keith, VP Amazon Devices
New Paperwhite at Amazon.com
Kevin Keith, VP-Amazon Devices
Joerg Tewes, Head of Product Management for Kindle
Press Release on new Paperwhite - October 16, 2018
Click here to check for software updates for your Kindle or Fire device
Next Week’s Guest
Simon Hørup Eskildsen, author of “How I Read”
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Host of Evil Genius Chronicles
Interview starts at 10:55 and ends at 40:51
“Really and truly [with a DIY book scanning device] I’m moving my hoarding from physical hoarding to digital hoarding. But I’m in favor of that maneuver. The bits and bytes are cheaper to store, and they take up a lot less room, and I’m okay with that.”
News
Data Guy’s presentation slides at Digital Book World
“Alexa, launch Fortnite” at Amazon’s Dayone blog - October 11, 2018
“Xbox One bundles at Amazon will come with a new Echo Dot for free” by Emily Heller at Polygon - October 12, 2018
“Amazon patents new Alexa feature that knows when you’re ill and offers you medicine” by James Cook at The Telegraph - October 9, 2018
Interview with Dave Slusher
Evil Genius Chronicles (Patreon page)
ServiceNow’s NowForum in Sydney, Australia
Dave Slusher’s blog post on building a book scanner - September 25, 2018
DIY Book Scanner Forum
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller
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David Peach, TKC Reporter-at-Large
Links Mentioned in this Episode
Digital Book World 2018
Alexa Developer website
The Dog Feeder Skill for Alexa
Digital Book World Hall of Fame inducts Marie Dutton Brown and Len Edgerly
Novel Effect skill for Alex
Audioburst
Libsyn
Macmillan podcasts
Readercoin
Veronica and the Volcano by Geoffrey Cook
OverDrive
Next Week’s Guest
Dave Slusher of The Evil Genius Chronicles podcast
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CEO of Open Road Integrated Media
Interview starts at 3:32 and ends at 27:40
“Industry-wide, if you took all eBooks, it looks like it’s going down maybe 7 to 10 percent. If you look at the very top booksellers it looks like it’s down 30 percent.”
New Alexa Products
The Verge’s Dan Seifert’s first impression (video) of Alexa-powered AmazonBasics Microwave
“In Defense of Amazon’s Alexa Microwave” by Jeffrey Van Camp at Wired - September 23, 2018
Dan Seifert’s first impressions of new Echo Show and other devices
Interview with Paul Slavin
Open Road Integrated Media
Author Earnings
Open Road newsletters
Next Week’s Show
David Peach and I will bring you highlights from Digital Book World 2018 in Nashville
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Author of the Joe Dillard and Darren Street series
Scott Pratt author page at Amazon.com
Jeff Bezos on the David Rubenstein Show - taped September 13, 2018
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Director of Deaf Ministries for Baptist International Outreach
Interview starts at 12:12 and ends at 40:04
“If I’m getting a book that I’m independently loading on [to a Fire tablet] I tend to do it in the Google Play books and not the Kindle app, mainly because it’s easier to put it on there. ”
News
“U.S. Trends in Arts Attendance and Literary Reading: 2002-2017” (PDF) - report by the National Endowment for the Arts
“NEA Study Finds Small Dip in Adult Reading” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - September 13, 2018
“How to Earn Up to $300,000 Delivering Packages for Amazon” by Zack Friedman at Forbes - September 12, 2018
Tech Tip
Humble Bundle
Interview with David Peach
Digital Book World
Digital Book World Hall of Fame Inductees
Baptist International Outreach
Digital Book World in Nashville October 2-4, 2018
The Daisy Consortium
My interview with Bradley Metrock in December, 2017, on TKC 487
OverDrive
Humble Bundle
O’Reilly Media
How to get Google Play on your Fire tablet (Amy Oztan at Laptopmag.com)
Unclaimed Baggage Center
David Peach’s LearnSigns.com and Missionary Talks podcasts
Content
Great on Kindle books
Next Week’s Guest
Scott Pratt, author of An Innocent Client and other books in the Joe Dillard Series
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Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group
Interview starts at 5:19 and ends at 36:00
“With respect to blockchain, there’s an opportunity to--I wouldn’t necessarily say disrupt--but to create an alternative to the closed ecosystems that Amazon has with Kindle and that other online platforms have and to provide peer-to-peer trading as well as easier e-commerce networks for publishers. It might be a pipe dream, and it might be that Amazon beats us to the punch and creates something that works on blockchain but is more effective for the consumer.”
News
All-new Fire HD 8 tablet with hands-free Alexa
Tech Tip
Alexa and Cortana demo
Here's How to Use Cortana with Alexa (and Vice Versa)
To use Cortana on an Echo device:
Open the Alexa app. You can log into your Amazon account here, or create one for free.
Enable the Cortana Alexa skill. ...
To Use Alexa on a Cortana device:
Open Cortana. ...
Say "Hey Cortana, open Alexa."
Interview with Brian O’Leary
Book Industry Study Group
Author Earnings
Digital Book World in Nashville October 2-4, 2018
Blockchain panel (YouTube) at BookNet Canada - March 23, 2018
Open Publication Distribution Service
Len Vlahos of the Tattered Cover Bookstore on TKC 467 - July 14, 2017
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CEO of Publica
Interview starts at 7:05 and ends at 42:10
“So a book token in our eReader app is going to be used as part of the cryptographic protection of the book to authorize you to read it by proving that you bought it. There’s another token that we made called the Pebble (PBL). It’s a ticker on exchanges, and if you want to go looking for what the Pebble is doing in the world you would look for the PBL ticker. It’s a token, but it only works as money. It’s not specific to a single book.”
News
“E Ink starts shipping advanced color epaper” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - August 28, 2018
“Sears’ stock soars as ship-to-store tire deal with Amazon expanded nationwide” by Tomi Kilgore at MarketWatch - August 29, 2018
“New Amazon Go Store Shrinks In Size, A Sign of Hope for Competitors” by Chris Walton at Forbes - August 28, 2018
Tech Tip
“Literary Clock Made from E-Reader” by tjaap at Instructables, reported on at Gizmodo
Interview with Josef Marc
Publica
Ethereum Project
Morgan James Publishing
Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad at the Publica Store - available for PBL 9.29
Canoeing in the Wilderness by Henry David Thoreau at Publica Store - available for PBL 5.25
Publica Book Catalog
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
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Editorial Director at Thomas & Mercer
Interview starts at 16:49 and ends at 43:56
“It’s interesting to think about readers around the world being able to find these books about a chemistry teacher turned homicide detective in Seattle, Washington. And I think that’s the global power of stories. Great stories are something that appeals to everyone. Figuring out the best ways that we can make it that anyone who wants to can pick up these books is really something we’re working toward.”
News
Good deals on Echo Show, Echo Dot, Echo Plus, Fire TV, and Fire TV Cube
Walmart teams up with Kobo eReaders at Markets Insider - August 22, 2018
Rakuten Kobo
Walmart announces Walmart eBooks by Rakuten Kobo
“Amazon in Running to Acquire Landmark Movie Chain” by Anousha Sakoui et al at Bloomberg - August 15, 2018
“Can Blockchain Disrupt the E-Book Market?” by Bill Rosenblatt at Forbes - August 18, 2018
Publica website
“Alexa is Losing Her Edge” by Will Oremus at Slate - August 23, 2018
Tech Tip
How Long to Read website (found at Recomendo)
Patrick Melrose: The Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Patrick Melrose series on Showtime
Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers
Interview with Grace Doyle
Thomas & Mercer titles at Amazon.com
My interview last week with Robert Dugoni
What She Gave Away: A Thriller by Catharine Riggs (available for pre-order, delivery on September 4, 2018)
What Have You Done by Matthew Farrell (available for pre-order, delivery October 1, 2018)
Debris Line (Gibson Vaughn Book 4) by Matthew FitzSimmons (available for pre-order, delivery November 13, 2018)
Quantum: A Thriller by Patricia Cornwell (available for pre-order, delivery December 3, 2019)
Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert [Kindle in Motion] by Patricia Cornwell
The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed [Kindle in Motion] by Scott Parazynski, interviewed on TKC 470 in August, 2017
Graveyard of Memories [Kindle in Motion] (A John Rain Novel Book 8) by Barry Eisler
Good Behavior [Kindle in Motion] by Blake Crouch
Chateau Ste Michelle winery
Leo Waterman mysteries by G. M. Ford
The Alienist: A Novel (Dr. Lazlo Kreizler Book 1) by Caleb Carr
Edinburgh Twilight (Ian Hamilton Mysteries Book 1) by Carole Lawrence
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
Warlight: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje
The Killer Collective by Barry Eisler
Killer Thriller (Ian Ludlow Thrillers Book 2) by Lee Goldberg (Available for pre-order, delivery February 12, 2019)
Bone Music (The Burning Girl Book 1) and Blood Echo (The Burning Girl Book 2) by Christopher Rice (Available for pre-order, delivery February 19, 2019)
Content
Amazon ends submissions for Kindle Scout
Books published via Kindle Scout
Next Week’s Guest
Josef Marc, CEO of Publica, which is publishing books using tokens on the blockchain.
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Author of the Tracy Crosswhite and David Sloane mysteries
Interview starts at 1:30 and ends at 35:00
“I’d say the primary difference between Thomas & Mercer and my experience with Big 5 publishing is that Thomas & Mercer never stops selling my books. When I’m with a Big 5 publisher, my book would come out and there would be publicity leading up to the book’s release and then there would be publicity for about three weeks after the book’s release.”
Robert Dugoni website
Robert Dugoni’s author page at Amazon.com
A Steep Price
Amazon’s First Reads program, formerly known as Kindle First
Books published by Thomas & Mercer and Lake Union
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
Tracy Crosswhite and David Sloan series
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Partnerships Manager for the Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator
at Boston Children’s Hospital
Interview starts at 7:44 and ends at 28:24
“One of the barriers with voice in general is you don’t know what’s out there. You don’t really know like you do with a phone what app options you have, so it’s a little bit harder for people to find new things. Amazon in general is pretty concerned about that, because they don’t just want people to use it for their three basic cases, being an alarm, music, and maybe re-ordering something.”
News
AI Deep-Speare project
NBC visits with top Alexa exec in Seattle
Amazon’s share of U.S. retail spending considered
Amazon plans to open its own health clinic for employees
Amazon’s support for literary nonprofitrs
Tech Tip
Fire HD 10 with Show Mode Dock at Amazon - $190
MyScript Nebo note-taking app for Apple Pencil
forScore music reader for iPad
Interview with Devin Nadar at the Voice of Healthcare Summit
Devin Nadar interviewed on the Voice of Healthcare podcast - July 3, 2018
Boston Children’s Hospital
KidsMD skill for Alexa
“Amazon Echo gets its first healthcare skill -- KidsMD” at MHealthSpot - April 17, 2016
Amazon Web Services and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
CIGNA
VoiceFirst FM network of podcasts
Interview with Nathan Treloar (Starts at 29:02 and ends at 48:20)
Orbita
Memory Lane Alexa Skill
Next Week’s Guest
Robert Dugoni, author of the Tracy Crosswhite series.
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Jim Jones, right, Associate Professor of Management at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Interview starts at 9:03 and ends at 40:50
“In the classroom, I really do strongly feel that attention is so critical to actual understanding that the more that you can remove the electronic connection and the focus on inputting electronically or--even worse sometimes I think, is passively taking pictures of the screen--the better.”
News
Is Amazon working on another phone? https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/7/29/17627314/amazon-phone-studios-jen-salke-rumor
How wealthy are Jeff Bezos’s parents? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/a-hidden-amazon-fortune-bezos-parents-could-be-worth-billions
How Amazon dominates online retail: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-01/amazon-s-the-biggest-in-online-shopping-but-not-always-the-best
Demise of the Kindle Voyage:
https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-kindle-voyage-is-now-discontinued
Tech Tip
Update for Kindle app for iPhone and iPad:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-kindle/id302584613?mt=8
Interview with Jim Jones
Gallup and its StrengthsFinder assessment tool
University of Nebraska Omaha
Microsoft Surface Pro
Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational goals
reMarkable tablet
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Clifton Strengths assessment
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Links to items mentioned in this 10th Anniversary episode
First episode of The Kindle Chronicles (TKC 1) with Baratunde Thurston on July 26, 2008
My interviews with Jeff Bezos in 2012 and 2016
Transcript of my 2012 Bezos interview (via Kindle Nation Daily)
Kindle Oasis
Interview with Russ Grandinetti, VP Kindle Content, in 2010
TKC 338 with Andy Weir, author of The Martian - January 23, 2015
The Martian (movie) at Prime Video
Artemis by Andy Weir
TKC 287 with Hugh Howey - January 31, 2014
TKC 191 with Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu
First in Line for an iPhone in 2007 (YouTube video)
TKC 502 - South by Southwest Interactive 2018
The Colorado Sun at Civil
TKC 336 with poet John Ashbery - January 20, 2015
TKC 382 with poet Donald Hall - November 28, 2015
TKC 457 with James McQuivey - May 6, 2017
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Author of Departure, The Extinction Files
and The Origin Mystery
Interview starts at 13:07 and ends at 43:36
“I feel very lucky about the timing. The Kindle had just come out. I would go home from work and read my Kindle every night, and I thought, ‘There’s got to be a bunch of people like me that are doing this that I could write a story for.’ And that’s kinda what I got to.”
News
“Amazon reportedly had a 300-person conference call to deal with Prime Day glitches” by Rachel Sandler at Business Insider - July 20, 2018
Tech Tip
reMarkable website
reMarkable tablet at Amazon.com
Neo Smart Pen
“How to Buy a Kindle as a Gift for More Than One Person” by Saikat Basu at Make Use of - July 12, 2018
“Why You Should Read a Book with a Stranger” by Nick Douglas at Lifehacker - July 19, 2018
Audrey
“Monitor Amazon Prices on Your Mac With This Menu Bar App” by Emily Price at Lifehacker4 - July 7, 2018
“How to install a new launcher on Amazon’s Fire tablet” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - July 7, 2018
PriceAlert for Amazon app for Macintosh ($2.99)
Interview with A G Riddle
Books by A G Riddle
The Origin Mystery series: The Atlantis Gene, The Atlantis Plague, and The Atlantis World
Departure
The Extinction Files series: Pandemic and Genome
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King
Wool Omnibus Edition [Kindle in Motion] (Silo series Book 1) by Hugh Howey
David Gatewood, freelance editor
Content
“Amazon Publishing’s Abigail Strom, author of Tell Me, Wins Romance Writers of America 2018 RITA Award” press release July 20, 2018
“Amazon Publishing Author Christine Bell Wins International Thriller Writers’ 2018 Thriller Award for Grievance” press release July 14, 2018
Next Week’s Show
A 10th anniversary look back at the first episode of The Kindle Chronicles on July 26, 2018, and what we've been talking about since then, with excerpts from interviews with Jeff Bezos and others.
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Author of Somebody’s Daughter
Interview starts at 17:04 and ends at 43:26
“I think there’s nothing more terrifying than the realization that someone you thought you knew--whether it’s your spouse, your parent, your sibling, someone you thought you knew really well, someone in your family--has been keeping some kind of secret from you.” Photo by Glen Rose Photography
News
Kindle Paperwhite will be on sale for $80 ($40 off) on Prime Day.
“Amazon is giving Prime members up to $30 in free cash for shopping at Whole Foods this week” by Hayley Peterson at Business Insider - July 10, 2018
“Watch out, retailers. This is just how big Amazon is becoming” by Lauren Thomas and Courtney Reagan at CNBC - July 13, 2018
“Amazon Go Means Goodby Status Quo” by Chris Walton at Forbes - July 6, 2018
Chris Walton’s Omni Talk blog
Tech Tip
First impressions of Amazon’s Show Mode Dock for Fire HD 8 and HD 10
Interview with David Bell
Western Kentucky University MFA program
Somebody’s Daughter by David Bell
Other novels by David Bell at Amazon.com
Next Week’s Guest
Author A.G. Riddle
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If you are a regular listener to The Kindle Chronicles, you may have noticed a change in the show notes page. Preston Edmands from Flyte New Media has been helping me transport my page from WordPress to Libsyn, which will save me time each week when I post the show.
Meanwhile, there have been some bumps in the road. Stitcher has not been able to offer the last few episodes, but Tunein is working okay and most other podcatchers I know about.
If you are having difficulty getting the show each week, please drop me an email at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com.
Founder & Chief Trailblazer of Retirepreneur
Interview starts at 16:01 and ends at 40:10
“I went deep into Kindle and the electronic piece, and then I began pulling back some. I would tell you right now I am right down the middle. I’m a hybrid.”
News
Amazon’s Prime Day starts July 16th at 3 pm ET
“How to Get Primed for Amazon Prime Day” at Wired - July 3, 2018
Delta Trinsic faucet with Alexa control (new product launch on Prime Day)
Prime Day “Home Smart Home” sweepstakes
“Why Amazon keeps making tablets when the market has been struggling” by Hayley Tsukayama at The Washington Post - July 5, 2018
Amazon’s 2nd Go Store Planned for Seattle (GeekWire) - July 3, 2018
Tech Tip
A look back at print technology for annotations
Interview with Donna Kastner
Retirepreneur
Retirepreneur Podcast
AARP
NextAvenue
South By Southwest
Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA)
Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change by Frank Sesno
Content
Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas
Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers
“The Most Important Sci-Fi Show of the 90’s Hits Amazon Prime in June” by Ryan Britt at Inverse - May 17, 2018
Babylon 5 Season 1 (Prime Video)
Next Week’s Guest
David Bell, author of Somebody’s Daughter
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Author of the Deadly Edits and Liss MacCrimmon Mysteries
Interview starts at 16:16 and ends at 44:12
“What I try to do is after I get up and have my coffee and my toast, is to come into my office and sit down and write at least one scene, the next scene in the story. I do that usually seven days a week.”
Tech Tip
My comparison of Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant
News
Prime Wardrobe
Alexa on iPhone and iPad (TechCrunch)
Show Mode Dock for Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10
Interview with Kathy Lynn Emerson
Crime & Punctuation (first in the Deadly Edits Series) by Kaitlyn Dunnett
The Liss MacCrimmon Mysteries by Kaitlyn Dunnett
Murder in a Cornish Alehouse: An Elizabethan Thriller (A Mistress Jaffrey Mystery) by Kathy Lynn Emerson
Sisters in Crime
Mystery Writers of America
“Lack of Oxford comma costs Maine company millions in overtime dispute” by Daniel Victor at The Boston Globe - March 16, 2017
A Who’s Who of Tudor Women
Kathy Lynn Emerson’s four-book Diana Spaulding Mysteries series published by Belgrave House
Next Week’s Guest
Donna Kastner, founder and chief trailblazer of Retirepreneuer.
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Seattle Music and Arts Pioneer
Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 44:45
“There it was, the [Seattle] head tax. ‘We’re going to do it, this is what we’re going to do. It’s going to address homelessness. We’ll collect the money--we don’t know how we’re going to spend it yet, but we’re going to hit these businesses with this tax.’ That’s just not the way to govern, in my opinion.”
News
Atul Gawande to head Amazon-Berkshire-JP Morgan health organization, as covered in The New York Times and The Washington Post
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Amazon Prime Day 2018 will begin July 16, according to a Techradar scoop.
TechRadar’s Prime Day hub
Supreme Court ruling allowing states to force online retailers to collect sales tax (Bloomberg and Recode)
Alexa in hotels
Google Home
Hub by Amazon
Tech Tip
Fire TV Cube
Interview with Ricardo Frazer
Sir Mix-a-Lot (Wikipedia)
Sir Mix-a-Lot web site
Zaki-Rose
Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF)
Seattle Theatre Group
4Culture
“Amazon to Share New Building with Homeless Shelter in Seattle” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - May 10, 2017
Mary’s Place
“Jeff Bezos Wants Ideas for Philanthropy, So He Asked Twitter” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - June 15, 2017
Next Week’s Guest
Kathy Lynn Emerson, author of Crime & Punctuation (Deadly edits).
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New Owner of Digital Book World
Interview starts at 12:01 and ends at 43:50
“Everything with books orbits discoverability. That’s the billion-dollar problem. That’s the problem that Apple has never figured out yet. That’s the problem that Amazon has sort of figured out.”
News
Target dazzles me with service
Rebranding Prime
Mayday! Mayday! The end of a great customer help service.
Tech Tip
Alexa on your Apple Watch
How to read PDF’s on your Kindle
Try “Alexa, play the podcast The Kindle Chronicles”
Interview with Bradley Metrock
Digital Book World
VoiceFirst.FM and This Week in Voice
“What to expect from the new Digital Book World” by PG at The Passive Voice - October 19, 2018
Alexa Skill Blueprints and Storyline
SoundHound
“Walt Mossberg to keynote Digital Book World 2018” - November 26, 2017
WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us by Tim O’Reilly
Outro
Thanks to Preston Edmands and Lindsay Babayan of Flyte New Media for the all-new design for my show notes page. And to Rich Brooks, Flyte’s founder and president, who is helping me consider initiatives to grow the TKC audience. His excellent digital marketing podcast, Agents of Change, is a must if you are looking to expand your own reach via the Internet. Rich also convenes an annual Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine, which I have attended regularly and I ways learn lots when I go. I think of it as a mini South By Southwest by the Sea, and this year it will be held on September 20th and 21st.
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Author of “The List” in Amazon’s The Real Thing Collection
Interview starts at 13:23 and ends at 39:21
“I think we look at the Big Five publishers as being kind of set in their ways and really traditional, but I actually think that everyone is looking to try new things. I think everyone is realizing that just putting out a hardcover in the exact same way isn’t going to always work in a way that they would hope. It’s more that I’m just excited about different ways of approaching storytelling.” (Photo credit: Teresa Flowers)
News
Echo Look ($199.99) is now available to all U.S. customers (press release) - June 6, 2018
“Want to Read Michael Lewis’s Next Work? You’ll Be Able to Listen to It First” by Alexandra Alter at The New York Times - June 2, 2018
Amazon Fire TV Cube
“Amazon’s Fire TV Cube is an Echo, streamking box, and universal remote in one” by Chris Welch at The Verge - June 7, 2018
Interview with Jade Chang
“The List” by Jade Chang in the Amazon Original Stories collection, The Real Thing
The Wangs Vs. the World by Jade Chang
“The Deceptively Simple Work of an Artist Who Hallucinated as a Child” by Tasos Gaintatzis and Marina Legaki at The Hundreds - December 19, 2014
“Love and Estrogen” by Samantha Allen in The Real Thing collection
Content
“What Books are Highlighted the Most Densely?” By Daniel Doyon at Readwise - May 10, 2018
Next Week’s Guest
Bradley Metrock, CEO of Score Publishing, which is the new owner of Digital Book World, scheduled for October 2nd through 4th in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Senior Editor, The Information
Interview starts at 11:36 and ends at 43:50
“[Amazon’s HQ2 decision] will be before the end of the year, unless something radical changes. I don’t think it’s imminent. It’s probably--I’m guessing here--but it’s probably months away. I would guess like towards the end of the summer, early fall. That’s really not based on hard facts but kind of reading between the lines.”
News
Data Guy’s presentation to the 2018 Science Fiction Writers of America conference
“Amazon Publishing Has Signed with Patricia Cornwell for an Exclusive New Series” by Adam Rowe at Forbes - May 29, 2018
“Where Will Amazon HQ2 Go? Ranking Puts Raleigh on Top, Boston at Bottom” by Alexandre Tanzi at Bloomberg - May 30, 2018
Tech Tip
My current stylus for Kindle and tablet reading
Interview with Nick Wingfield
“‘The Information’ hires NY Times’ Wingfield” by Chris Rouh at Taking Biz News - May 15, 2018
The Information
Next Week’s Guest
Jade Chang, a contributor to the first Amazon Original Stories collection, titled The Real Thing: A Bundle of Love Stories.
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Author of the Frank Adversego Thriller Series
Interview starts at 11:14 and ends at 35:51
“Alexa’s pretty primitive. I think it’s very concerning from a cybersecurity point of view, because people have already learned how to spoof Alexa. Just a few days ago they came up with the equivalent of a dog whistle-type command that you couldn't hear, but Alexa could. Someone could turn it on and off.”
News
“An Amazon Echo recorded a family’s conversation, then sent it to a random person in their contacts, report says” by Hamza Shaban at The Washington Post - May 24, 2018
“Don’t Freak Out About That Amazon Alexa Eavesdropping Situation” by Lily Hay Newman at Wired - May 24, 2018
“HBG, Amazon Partner on Narrative Content for Echo Device” by Calvin Reid at Publishers Weekly - May 22, 2018
“Are ebooks dying or thriving? The answer is yes” by Thu-Huong Ha at Quartz - May 13, 2018
Tech Tip
Use Household Profiles to Share Your Fire Tablet - Amazon.com
Interview with Andrew Updegrove
The Frank Adversego Thrillers by Andrew Updegrove at Amazon.com
The Blockchain Affair (chapter by chapter, beginning with Prologue and Chapter 1)
Andrew-Updegrove.com
Content
Books on Artificial Intelligence recommended by Andy Updegrove:
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 1st Edition by Nick Bostrom
Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence--and Where It’s Taking Us Next by Luke Dormehi
The Quest for Artificial Intelligence by Nils J. Nilsson
Podcast interviews with James and Deborah Fallows, authors of Our Towns: A 100,000 Mile Journey into the Heart of America: Max Linsky of the Longform Podcast, Ezra Klein of The Ezra Klein Show, John Dickerson of the CBS This Morning Podcast, Sam Wang of the WooCast Politics & Polls podcast, and Chuck Todd of Meet the Press podcast.
Next Week’s Guest
Nick Wingfield, former tech reporter at The New York Times, currently senior editor at The Information
Outro
Thanks to Stephen Campbell of The Author Biz podcast for generously helping me meet the deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect in Europe today. I modeled my new Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy on Stephen’s website.
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Editor-in-Chief of Good E-Reader
Interview starts at 3:45 and ends at 33:51
News
“Amazon Go cashier-free store could be headed to SF’s Union Square” by Matier & Ross at The San Francisco Chronicle - May 13, 2018
“The Information hires NY Times’s Wingfield” by Chris Roush at Talking Biz News - May 15, 2018
The Information
“Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms” by Damian Paletta and Josh Dawsey at The Washington Post - May 18, 2018
“You’ll soon hear 8 new voices in Amazon Alexa skills” by Michelle Fitzsimmons at Techradar - May 16, 2018
Tech Tip
“How to Tag Your Highlights While You Read” by Daniel Doyon at Readwise - May 16, 2018
Readwise.io
Interview with Michael Kozlowski
Good e-Reader
Good e-Reader app store and YouTube channel
Good e-Reader store
“Storytel e-Reader will launch this summer” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - May 16, 2018
Storytel
Kobo
“How CLEARink technology is going to change e-readers for the better” by Markus Reily at Good E-Reader - August 1, 2017
CLEARink
Interview with Dr. Jeanne Tifts, English teacher at Belmont Hill School
(Interview begins at 33:52 and ends at 43:50)
Loom
Next Week’s Guest
Andrew Updegrove, author of The Turing Test: A Tale of Artificial Intelligence and Malevolence (Frank Adversego Thrillers Book 4)
Outro music by the Belmont Hill School B-flats
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Authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America
Interview starts at 9:43 and ends at 39:14
“James Fallows: ‘Through my reportorial lifetime I’ve seen a number crises for the American system, which the U.S. has so far managed to muddle its way through. That does not guarantee continued muddling, but I personally am more heartened than I thought I would be by all this resilience around the country. So Deb, will we make it?’ Deborah Fallows: ‘I’m going to say we’ll make it. It’s the generations that are coming up--it’s their turn to help make this right now.”
News
“Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write” by Jean-Louis Gassée at Monday Note (Medium) - April 29, 2018
Jeff Bezos’s Letters to Shareholders
“Warren Buffett Says He Was Wrong About Google and Amazon” by David Z. Morris at Fortune - May 6, 2018
“Amazon is starting to scan customers’ bodies in the name of online shopping” by Lulu Chang at Fox News - May 7, 2018
Interview with James Fallows and Deborah Fallows
Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America
“Where History is Being Made” by David Brooks at The New York Times - February 7, 2018
Books by James Fallows
Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language by Deborah Fallows
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Traveler, teller of tales, reviewer of eReaders
Interview starts at 15:25 and ends at 41:53
“To be honest, I haven’t met one person outside tech nerds like myself that use it [Kindle’s X-Ray feature.] I very rarely use it. I kind of go ‘Let’s see what this is about.” I think it takes away from the immersion of reading. If I’m interested in something I’ll take a look at it later on, but during the reading process I don’t really want to leave.”
News
Jeff Bezos interviewed in Berlin by Mathias Dopfner at Business Insider - April 28, 2018
The Post (2017) at Prime Video
Personal History by Katharine Graham
Tech Tip
“Google’s ‘Talk to Books’ Might Have Just Changed Everything” by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World - April 15, 2018
Talk to Books
Content
Amazon’s new Prime Book Box program for young readers
Interview with Séamus Bellamy
Basic Kindle, Paperwhite, and Oasis
Kobo
Overdrive for Kobo
ReMarkable tablet
Seamus Bellamy articles at USA Today’s Reviewed site, BoingBoing, Macworld and PCWorld
Comments
Click here for information about visiting Amazon’s headquarters and the spheres in Seattle
Next Week’s Guest
James Fallows and Deborah Fallows, authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America, to be released on May 8, 2018 by Pantheon. (Note: this episode will be released on Wednesday to coincide with the book’s release, instead of the usual episode upload on Friday.)
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Longtime Kindle Chronicles listener
Interview starts at 18:14 and ends at 43:00
“It was very clear what was missing [in Seattle’s Amazon Go store]. There was no Kindle, no Fires, no place to scan and order one. Maybe that’s because you can just walk out, and they figure if they’re going to lose inventory they want it to be five dollars or under. What was distinctly absent was any Amazon products that you identify with the Amazon brand.”
News
“Inside Jeff Bezos’s DC Life” by Ben Wofford at The Washingtonian - April 22, 2018
“Amazon will raise the price of Prime from $99 to $119 in the U.S.” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - April 26, 2018
“Total Recall? Amazon’s giving Alexa a better memory” by Ry Crist at CNET - April 26, 2018
“Amazon’s Next Secret Project Could be Robots That Follow You Around” by Brad Stone and Mark Gurman at Bloomberg - April 23, 2018
Amazon Key deliveries to your car!
“Amazon’s new Echo Dot Kids Edition comes with a colorful case and parental controls” by Dan Seifert at The Verge - April 25, 2018
Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition - $80 available for pre-order with delivery May
“New Kindle Paperwhite 4 will have all new comfortlight system” by Michael Kozlowski at Good e-Reader - April 27, 2018
Tech Tip
Share Your Amazon Prime Benefits including Prime Music
Interview with Brett McNeill
Reformation Presbyterian Church
Brett’s video of a Fire Phone demonstration on June 18, 2014, in Seattle
“The Circle” starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson (Included with Prime Video)
Next Week’s Guest
Blogger and journalist Séamus Bellamy
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Author of Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen
Interview starts at 15:50 and ends at 41:48
“It’s not that I sought out to be published by Amazon. It was that Amazon happened to be the people who believed in me and my book, and they’ve been so wonderful to work with. I do feel also that Little A is a tiny imprint within a huge company, so I kind of get the best of both worlds--that personal TLC and the brawn of the marketing and other kinds of reach of Amazon.”
News
Jeff Bezos’s 2018 Letter to Shareowners
“Jeff Bezos reveals Amazon has 100 million Prime members in letter to shareholders” by Eugene Kim at CNBC - April 18, 2018
David Axelrod interviews Jay Carney, Amazon’s senior vice president for public affairs, on The Axe Files podcast - March 7, 2018
Tech Tip
“How to build your own Alexa skills with the new Alexa Blueprints” by Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge - April 19, 2018
Amazon Alexa Skills Blueprints
Interview with Hannah Howard
Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
Bennington College MFA in Writing program
Literary agent Andrea Somberg
Morgan Parker
Laura Van der Veer
Too Good to Be True by Ben Anastas
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order by Joan Wickersham
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
Fairway Market
Dean & DeLuca
FreshDirect
Content
AmazonCrossing’s celebration of World Book Day - nine books are available free through April 24, 2018
Next Week’s Guest
Rev. Brett McNeill, pastor of Reformation Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Olympia, WA, with a first-person tour of the Amazon Go store in Seattle
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Creator of the Kindle Classroom Project
Interview starts at 15:29 and ends at 43:19
“I don’t think that the Kindle makes reading any more fun, but a lot of students--especially 9th Grade boys who have been turned off of reading, they get a Kindle, and the Number One thing that they do is they bump up that text size, because they don’t like it to be so small, so they can really feel like they’re achieving as a reader. Even though the book takes the same amount of time to read, they feel they are making more progress through the pages.”
News
Amazon Device Sale for Prime Members
Amazon Key Home Kit on sale for up to $140 off
Cities eligible for Amazon Key delivery
The Essential W. S. Merwin (Paperback)
“Apple poaches ex-Amazon, HP executive for growing software team” by Mike Wuerthele at AppleInsider - April 6, 2018
Jon McCormack Linkedin profile
“Shhh...Alexa might be listening” by Alex Hern at The Guardian - April 11, 2018
U.S. Patent Application 20170323645 filed June 12, 2017 by Kiran K. Edara of Amazon Technologies Inc
“Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant, coming aboard ambulances” by Alana Levene at The Boston Globe - April 5, 2018
Tech Tip
“13 Amazon Echo Hacks to Get the Most Out of Alexa” by Jacob Kleinman at Mental Floss - April 6, 2018
Interview with Mark Isero
Click here to donate a Kindle to the Kindle Classroom Project
Amazon Allowance
The Highlighter Podcast and newsletter
Envision Schools
Content
My notes and highlights at Goodreads for Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Books in my Night Reading collection (mentioned in Tech Tip about Book Spinning):
The Joy of Love: Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia on Love in the Family by Pope Francis
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach
Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer by Richard Rohr
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Next Week’s Guest
Hannah Howard, author of Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen, published on April 1, 2018 by the Little A imprint of Amazon Publishing
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Author of The Punishment She Deserves: A Lynley Novel
Interview starts at 12:25 and ends at 36:50
“The late Sue Grafton said something to me that was really helpful on time. I was talking about difficulty I was having in the book with a character. She said to me, ‘If you know the question, you do know the answer.’ That was really helpful, because what that told me is that if I could articulate what difficulty I was having with a book then buried somewhere in my head was going to be the solution to that problem. That turned out to be absolutely true.”
News
“Penguin Random house exec gets a promotion” by Keith J. Kelly at The New York Post - April 5, 2018
Tech Tips
“Alexa Announcements Lets You Broadcast Messages to All Devices” at Love My Echo
“Tell the family ‘dinner’s ready’ with Alexa Announcements” by Ry Crist at CNET - April 6, 2018
“How to Donate to Charity Using Alexa” by Emily Price at LifeHacker - April 2, 2018
List of Alexa-supported charities
Roav VIVA by Anker - Alexa-enabled 2-port USB car charger - $49.99 at Amazon.com
“No More Android Apps on Fire OS” by Dallas Thomas at Android Gadget Hacks - March 26, 2018
“Install Apps from the Play Store Without Gapps or Google Services” by Dallas Thomas at Android Gadget Hacks - February 20, 2018
Interview with Elizabeth George
The Punishment She Deserves: A Lynley Novel by Elizabeth George
Elizabeth George books at Amazon.com
Write Away: One Writer’s Approach to the Novel by Elizabeth George
WOCA The Source Radio interview with Elizabeth George - March 29, 2018
Doug Miles interview with Elizabeth George - March 27, 2018
Content
Rave review in AudioFile Magazine of The Punishment She Deserves audiobook, read by Simon Vance
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Comments
David Peach, host of the LearnSigns video podcast
Scribd and Readly
Digital Book World, October 2-4 in Nashville
Next Week’s Guest
Mark Isero, founder of the Kindle Classroom Project and author of The Highlighter newsletter and podcast on race, education, and culture.
Outro
Returning soon? The Edge of the Road podcast...
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Co-founder and CEO of Goodreads
Interview starts at 14:30 and ends at 36:54
“People read along, and then--for as long as there’ve been books--after you’re done reading, you you go talk about the ideas, the stories, the concepts that you read about. That’s actually a good metaphor for Goodreads and Kindle. Kindle is where you read alone. Goodreads is where you go talk about what you read.”
News
“Trump hates Amazon, not Facebook” by Jonathan Swan at Axios - March 28, 2018
“The World’s Richest Man Just Lost $10.7 billion as Trump Tweets About Amazon” by Lucinda Shen at Fortune - March 29, 2018
“Here’s the controversial tax practice by Amazon that’s got Trump so upset” by Tae Kim at CNBC - March 29, 2018
“‘Their eyes are on D.C.’: Capital area said to have good shot at Amazon HQ2” by Robert McCartney at The Washington Post - January 20, 2018
“If Trump wants to take a shot at Amazon, there’s a potential billion-dollar deal staring him right in the face” by Allan Smith at Business Insider - March 29, 2018
Tech Tip
Fire HD 8 32 GB with Special Offers- $100
Interview with Otis Chandler
Goodreads
Otis Chandler’s Kindle notes at highlights at Goodreads on Principles: On Life and Work by Ray Dalio
My Kindle notes and highlights at Goodreads on Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
“Your Goodreads Friends Are Now Just a Tap Away in Kindle for iPhone and iPad (U.S. Members)” by Jasmine at Goodreads blog - October 23, 2017
Content
Shadow Shepherd (Sam Callahan Book 2) by Chad Zunker
Closer Than You Know by Brad Parks
Book People bookstore in Austin, Texas
Next Week’s Guest
Elizabeth George, author of The Punishment She Deserves
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Readly U.S. Contact
Interview starts at 12:48 and ends at 40:51
“Everyone for a long time has been trying to reinvent the magazine experience on digital, or even the newspaper experience on digital. I was one of those who came out and said, ‘Why?’ What you need to be doing is expanding your brand. People know your brand. Don’t think about shoe-horning the magazine or newspaper into this new--whether it was a device, a screen type, a platform, you’ve got to sit there and think of what do people really want on this platform?”
News
“Amazon is the most sought-after employer in the U.S.” by George Anders at LinkedIn - March 21, 2018
“LinkedIn Top Companies 2018: Where the U.S. wants to work now” by Daniel Roth at LinkedIn - March 21, 2018
Amazon press release on Harris Poll top ranking - March 22, 2018
“Amazon elbows Alphabet aside as second most valuable company” by Richard Waters and Nicole Bullock at The Financial Times - March 20, 2018
“At Mars, Jeff Bezos Hosted Roboticists, Astronauts, Other Brainiacs and Me” by Jack Nicas at The New York Times - March 22, 2018.
“Amazon has shut down Liquavista Offices in the Netherlands” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - March 15, 2018
“How Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate America’s Nightmare” by Shira Ovide at Bloomberg - March 14, 2018
“Leaked documents show Amazon’s TV gamble is paying off strongly” by Alan Martin at alphr - March 16, 2018
“Amazon to open brick-and-mortar bookstore at Park Meadows mall” by Kurt Sevits at The Denver Channel - March 8, 2018
Tech Tip
“Alexa Fast Tips Friday: New Alexa Follow Up Mode” at Love My Echo
Interview with Blake Pollard
Readly
Readly Select FAQs
Texture you
Click here to sign up for a free 30-day trial to Readly
Readly TV ad in the UKbloo
Content
Open Road Integrated Media announces acquisition of US eBook rights to Graham Greene novels
Next Week’s Guest
Otis Chandler, co-founder and CEO of Goodreads
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Brittany Kaiser, Co-Founder, Bueno Capital and CryptoHQ
Interview starts at 16:20 and ends at 22:29
South By Southwest Links
“Wyoming Passes 5 Pro-Blockchain Laws” at Consensys - March 15, 2018
“Despite some glitches, VR cinema takes a leap forward at SXSW 2018” by Omar L. Gallaga at the Austin American-Statesman - March 15, 2018
“Wyoming’s Blockchain Bills: A Very Personal Labor of Love” by Caitlin Long - March 9, 2018
Pressing On: The e-magazine for growing Christians
“U.S. State of Wyoming Defines Cryptocurrency ‘Utility Tokens’ As New Asset Class”rache by Rachel Wolfson at Forbes - March 13, 2018
Doc Searls website
“Could an Amazon Token Become a Viable Worldwide Cryptocurrency?” by Erik Kuebler at Bitcoin Magazine - March 9, 2018
SXSW has released streaming audio for the following sessions that I attended:
“The Future of Machine Learning: Worth the Hype?” - Jeff Chow of TripAdvisor, Finale Doshi-Velez of Harvard, Tom Foster of Inc Magazine and Chris Jones of iRobot Corporation
“Interactive Keynote: Esther Perel”
“Why Ethereum is Going to Change the World” - Joseph Lubin, founder of ConsenSys
“Primed for Amazon: Value & Cost of HQ2 for Cities” - Justin Bibb of Gallup, Kansas City Mayor Sylvester James Jr., Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane, and Asad Syrkett of Curbed.
“Why Blockchain Tech Equals 10X the Internet’s Value” - Jalak Jobanputra of Future/Perfect Ventures and Brittany Kaiser
“Blockchain Opportunities in Mobility and Logistics” - Chris Ballinger of Toyota Research Institute, Sweeni Ponoth of Bristlecone Inc., Rajat Rajbhandari of Texas A&M Transportation Institute, and Colleen Walsh of SAP
Upcoming Guests
Next week: Blake Pollard of Readly
TKC 504 on March 30, 2018: Otis Chandler, co-founder and CEO of Goodreads
TKC 505 on April 6, 2018: Elizabeth George, author of The Punishment She Deserves, available for pre-order with release on March 20, 2018, by Penguin Group
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Author of Closer Than You Know
Interview starts at 9:29 and ends at 43:09
“I look at certain authors that are greatly esteemed in the moment as literature. But I think, frankly, a lot of what passes as literature today will not stand the test of time, because there’s no story in the story. You have 350 pages of a character examining his navel and having interior monologue, and that’s just not the stuff that’s going to endure....Though he has not won a National Book Award and probably never will, Stephen King is still going to be read a hundred years from now.”
News
“Is Amazon Looking to Nation’s Capital For a Second Home?” by Brian Deagon at Investor’s Business Daily - March 5, 2018
“Ripple (XRP) and Amazon Would Be A Match Made in Crypto Heaven” by John P. Njui at Cryptonews - March 4, 2018
Block Zero, Kevin Rose’s new podcast about cryptocurrency.
Block Zero Episode #001 “Bitcoin’s true potential - Andreas M. Antonopoulos”
The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Interview with Brad Parks
“Who’s the deranged man in the parking lot?” by Bill Ruehlmann at The Virginian-Pilot - September 7, 2014
Stand-alone books by Brad Parks Closer Than You Know and Say Nothing
Carter Ross mysteries by Brad Parks: 1. Faces of the Gone 2. Eyes of the Innocent 3. The Girl Next Door 4. The Good Cop 5. The Player 6. The Fraud
Also by Brad Parks: The Nightgown: A Carter Ross Story
Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward (Winner of the 2018 National Book Award)
Content
Website of Kaitlyn Dunnett’s website, author of The Liss MacCrimmon Scottish-American Heritage Mysteries
Kilt Dead (A Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Book 1) by Kaitlyn Dunnet
“Dog Theme Mysteries: Dogs are Cozy, Too!” at The Cozy Mystery List Blog - August 9, 2007
Next Week’s Show
Voices and ideas from South By Southwest in Austin, Texas
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General Manager Fire Tablets & Kindle and Amazon Echo & Alexa Product Marketing
Interview starts at 15:16 and ends at 39:43
“I loved what I had heard about the leadership principles, particularly the customer obsession and innovation which I was seeing externally. As I came through the hiring process and since my first day that has been the reality. And so I just really love how the company obsesses about customers and looks to invent every day. That’s what really attracted me here.”
News
“Alexa briefly lost its voice amid widespread Amazon Web Services outage” by Chris Welch at The Verge - March 2, 2018.
Amazon Web Services service health dashboard
Thanks to James McQuivey of Forrester Research for his comment on the Alexa outage (included in audio)
“Why Amazon is Immune To Almost Any Boycott” by Cale Guthrie Weissman at Fast Company - March 2, 2018
“Amazon Buys Ring, Maker of Smart Home Products” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - February 27, 2018
“Amazon named Presenting Sponsor of Digital Book World 2018” by Bradley Metrock - February 25, 2018
Click here to register for Digital Book World 2018 October 2-4, 2018 in Nashville
“Inside the Alexa Prize” by James Vlahos at Wired - February 27, 2018
“Ebooks are not ‘stupid’--they’re a revolution” by Erin Kelly at The Guardian - February 21, 2018
“Amazon is in talks for a huge new office in Boston--and it drastically ups the HQ2 intrigue” by Dennis Green at Business Insider - February 28, 2018
“Shoppers would welcome an Amazon cryptocurrency, survey says” by Aaron Hankin at MarketWatch - February 27, 2018
“Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble” by Stephen Johnson at The New York Times Magazine - January 16, 2018
Tech Tip
A rave review for Readwise.io
Interview with Kevin Keith
“The votes are in: Alexa loses her voice but Amazon wins USA Today’s Ad Meter” by Erik Brady at USA Today - February 5, 2018
Would You Rather for Family skill for Alexa
Sensible Object’s “When in Rome” game for Alexa (available this summer)
Word Wise for Kindle
Content
Consider Phlebas (A Culture Novel Book 1) by Iain M. Banks
“Amazon Studios to Adapt Consider Phlebas, First Novel of the Culture Series, for Television” - Amazon Press Release February 21, 2018
Next Week’s Guest
Brad Parks, author of Closer Than You Know: A Novel, which will be published by Dutton on March 6, 2018.
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Avid reader, longtime listener
Interview starts at 12:45 and ends at 43:20
“My ideal Kindle would have real buttons and would have audio support, so that you could do immersion reading along with just straight reading.”
News
“Amazon plans to open as many as six more cashierless Amazon Go stores this year” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - February 22, 2018
“Prime Members Now Earn 5% Back When Shopping At Whole Foods Market Using the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Card” - press release February 20, 2018
Amazon Rewards Visa Signature Card
“This board game is powered by Amazon Alexa” by Monica Chin at Mashable - February 19, 2018
Sensible Object
“ENCORE: When data rules the world” interview with Yuval Noah Harari on the Financial Times Tech Tonic podcast - replayed on February 21, 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
Tech Tip
Click here for the latest software updates for Kindle and other Amazon devices
Content (Books mentioned by John Aga in the interview)
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer
Freddy the Pig series (Wikipedia)
Freddy the Detective by Walter R. Brooks
Books by Robert Heinlein including his Juveniles Series
Starship Troopers and Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein
The Hardy Boys Starter Set (5 Volumes) by Franklin W. Dixon
Gabriel Allon Series by Daniel Silva
The Liberation Trilogy Box Set by Rick Atkinson
The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II by Jan Jarboe Russell (Audible version)
We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Film by Noah Isenberg (Audible version)
OverDrive
cloudLibrary by bibliotheca
RBdigital
RBdigital and OverDrive at Amazon app store
Our Guest for Next Week’s 500th Episode:
Kevin Keith, Amazon’s General Manager Fire Tablets; Amazon Echo & Alexa Product Marketing
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Carmela Orsini of Novel Effect (5:08 to 13:22)
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
The Little Shop of Monsters by R. L. Stine
Paul Knopf, chief architect at GFA Technology (13:27 to 21:40)
Felix Lloyd, cofounder and CEO of Beanstack (21:44 to 30:53)
Harvard (MA) Public Library
David Burleigh, director of brand marketing and and communication at OverDrive (30:57 to 40:23)
Overdrive’s Libby app
Pete Schreiner, Libraries Fellow at North Caroline State University in Raleigh (40:27 to 42:25)
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My father William and grandson James
Interview starts at 17:43 and ends at 42:24
“I’ve been writing a realistic fictional narrative for my class as an assignment. There are certain phrases in [Kindle] books that have been highlighted 300 times or a thousand times. I try to make my phrases be like those phrases, because I’ve gotten to know what are the powerful phrases that people are going to highlight.”
News
Amazon press release announcing Prime Now delivery from Whole Foods - February 8, 2018
“Amazon Finally Gets Serious About Whole Foods” by Phil Lempert at Forbes - February 8, 2018
“Amazon Prime to offer two-hour Whole Foods delivery” by The Associated Press at New York Post - February 8, 2018
“Amazon looks to put bookstore in Cherry Creek” by Thomas Gounley at BusinessDen - February 5, 2018
The Hermitage Bookshop in Denver
“Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS” by Laura Stevens at The Wall Street Journal - February 9, 2018
“Amazon passes Samsung for 2nd place in worldwide tablet shipments” by Taylor Soper at GeekWire - February 5, 2018
Tech Tip
Readwise recommended in Cool Tools
Reading Basics, including View Your Reading Progress
Interview with my father William and my grandson James
Dad and James on TKC 413 in July, 2016
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Grant by Ron Chernow
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Homecoming (The Tillerman Cycle Book 1) and Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt
Tillerman Cycle Series by Cynthia Voigt (Goodreads)
Content
Monthly Kindle Deals
Next Week’s Show
I will be reporting from the American Library Association midwinter meeting here in Denver on next week’s show, which I will prepare in Cambridge, Mass.
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Author of Into the Black Nowhere: An UNSUB Novel
Interview starts at 18:20 and ends at 40:10
“One of the oldest stories that humanity tells itself is defeating the monster. Whether that’s the dark shape that howls in the night outside the cave or something that drags a club around or sea monsters--humanity always wants to defeat the monster. To do that we have to try to identify and understand it. The idea that the monster walks among us disguised as one of the community I think sets us on edge.”
News
Amazon releases Q4 Earnings report - February 1, 2018
“Amazon has posted a profit for 11 straight quarters” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - February 1, 2018
“Inside Amazon’s Artificial Intelligence Flywheel” by Steven Levy at Wired - February 1, 2018
Click here for a free three-month subscription to Wired
“Amazon is taking a welcome tilt at healthcare bills” by Brooke Masters at The Financial Times - February 2, 2018
“Dallas is best place for Amazon’s second headquarters, Wall Street Journal says” by Bill Hethcock at Dallas Business Journal - January 26, 2018.
“Amazon’s Treasure Truck to Provide Offers at Select Whole Foods Market Locations Across the U.S.” - Amazon press release January 30, 2018
Amazon’s Super Bowl ad
“Here’s Why Alexa Won’t Light Up During Amazon’s Super Bowl Ad” by Brad Stone at Bloomberg - February 2, 2018
Tech Tip
How does Kindle know how fast we’re reading?
Interview with Meg Gardiner
UNSUB: A Novel and Into the Black Nowhere: An UNSUB Novel by Meg Gardiner
“Stephen King on Meg Gardiner” at Entertainment Magazine - February 9, 2007
Meg Gardiner on Twitter and Facebook
Stephen King’s tweet recommending Into the Black Nowhere - January 30, 2018
Meg Gardiner’s 2018 tour dates for Into the Black Nowhere
Content
Prime Reading
Comments
jeff@amazon.com
Next Week’s Guest
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Senior Vice President & Publisher at Open Road Integrated Media
Interview starts at 11:28 and ends at 34:48
“No company in publishing right now is better aligned with Amazon in terms of our focus on the customer experience, in terms of our focus on eBooks and driving growth in eBooks.”
News
Amazon Go video
“Amazon Go: convenience and concern at new checkout-free corner shop” by Mark Harris at The Guardian - January 22, 2018
Amazon’s listing of 42 Amazon Go jobs open
“Amazon Go draws crowds” by Matt Day at The Seattle Times - January 22, 2018
“Here’s what it’s like to shop at Seattle’s Amazon Go cashierless convenience store” by Christine Clarridge at The Seattle Times - January 22, 2018
“The Amazon Go store - techy-cool or creepy-weird?” by Elizabeth Weise at USA Today - January 26, 2018
“Amazon’s Checkout-Free Store Makes Shopping Feel Like Shoplifting” by Jake Bullinger at The Atlantic - January 24, 2018
“New Walmart Partnership Brings Retailer into the E-Book Game” by John Maher at Publishers Weekly - January 26, 2018
“Apple’s Getting Back Into the E-Book Fight Against Amazon” by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg - January 25, 2018
“Apple’s iBooks Director at Digital Book World: Liveblog” at The Kindle Chronicles - June, 2015
“Thoughts on Apple Books” by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World - January 25, 2018
Tech Tips
“Has Blocking text-to-speech access ended?” by Bufo Calvin at I Love My Kindle - November 28, 2017
Suzanne Skyvara’s Notes & Highlights for Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio - Goodreads
Interview with Jon Fine
Open Road Integrated Media
“Jon Fine Joins Open Road Integrated Media as SVP and Publisher” - press release October 27, 2017
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Open Road’s Early Bird Books email newsletter
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1) by Philip Pullman
Agatha Christie mysteries published by Open Road
Content
Summer Doorways: A Memoir by W. S. Merwin
“The Durrells in Corfu” PBS series
Comments
Greg Montague’s “A Good App Gone Bad” thread at Goodreads Audiobooks Group
Recommended by Eolake Stobblehouse: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series
“Where do you get your story ideas? - Life Expectancy” by Dean Koontz
Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz
The Blacklist, an original Netflix series
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Margaret Jull Costa (recommended by Jean Remple)
Next Week’s Guest
Meg Gardiner, a novelist whose next thriller, Into the Black Nowhere, will be released on January 30th by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
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Editor at Little A
Interview starts at 22:52 and ends at 44:24
“The trick with writing is a lot of times the more specific, the more universal something becomes. In taking care of a story, if there is something that I don’t quite understand, I’m not going to say, ‘Oh, that’s not related. We’ll take it out.’ I’m going to ask for more. Show me how this is all of us.” (Photo by Stephanie Land)
News
Amazon press release on top 20 in HQ2 search - January 18, 2018
Recode on top 20 - January 18, 2018
“Amazon Chooses 20 Finalists for Second Headquarters” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - January 18, 2018
“The Case for Ending Amazon’s Dominance” by Tim Harford at The Financial Times - January 19, 2018
“Jeff Bezos Donates $33 million to Dreamers Scholarship Fund” by Matt Shuham at Talking Points Memo - January 12, 2018
TheDream.US
Tech Tip
Translated skill for Alexa
Interview with Hafizah Geter
Day One: A Literary Journal for the Digital Age
Kindle Singles store
Amazon Original Stories
Children of the Salt Road by Lydia Fazio Theys
When a Camel Breaks Your Heart (Kindle Single) by Kodi Scheer
Midair: A Novel by Kodi Scheer
The Mothers: A Novel by Brit Bennet
Hafizah Geter reading “The Break-In,” her poem published in The New Yorker
Soy Sauce for Beginners and Bury What We Cannot Take by Kirstin Chen
Halsey Street by Naima Coster
Feast: True Love In and Out of the Kitchen by Hannah Howard
Take Your Shirt Off and Cry: A Memoir of Near-Fame Experiences by Nancy Balbirer
Hell’s Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter
Little A on Twitter
Next Week’s Guest
Jon Fine, senior vice president and publisher of Open Road Integrated Media
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Author of Ricochet Joe & the new Jane Hawk series
Interview starts at 10:30 and ends at 41:57
“Whatever I was reading in childhood through adolescence, it lifted me up and out. I think it was all of that that made me want to be a writer. I thought it would be the most amazing thing if out there in the world somewhere there was a kid reading something or an adult for that matter that was really getting to them and affecting them as so many people had affected me. And you didn’t even know who they were or where they were. It just struck me as a kind of magical thing to be doing. So because I was a reader, that’s really why I became a writer.”
News
“Amazon May Have Dropped a Clue About a Likely HQ2 Location” by Aaron Pressman at Fortune - January 11, 2018.
“Amazon and Google lead way on virtual assistant dealmaking at CES” by Tim Bradshaw at The Financial Times - January 9, 2018
“Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant compete at CES to control the smart home” by Matt Day at The Seattle Times - January 8, 2018
“This smart suitcase uses Segway technology to balance itself as it follows you around” by Thuy Ong at The Verge - January 4, 2018
“My heart aches for this Segway-inspired auto-following suitcase that won’t stop falling over” by Natt Garun at The Verge - January 8, 2018
Tech Tip
“How to pair your AirPods with your Kindle Oasis” by Charlie Sorrel at Cult of Mac - Janiuary 6, 2018
Interview with Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz’s web site
Ricochet Joe
The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk #1) and The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk #2) by Dean Koontz
Available for preorder with delivery May 8: The Crooked Staircase (Jane Hawk #3)
Dean Koontz author page at Amazon.com
Books by Kate DiCamillo: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Tale of Despereaux, Because of Winn-Dixie, and The Magician’s Elephant
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
The Book of Counted Sorrows (Wikipedia)
Content
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Wins Best TV Series, Comedy at 2018 Golden Globes (YouTube) - January 7, 2018
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Prime Video
Next Week’s Guest
Hafizah Geter, editor of the recently closed Day One literary magazine
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Software Quality Engineer
Interview starts at 12:46 and ends at 41:14
“Somehow the Goodreads would talk to the Amazon/Kindle cloud, so as new notes come in it would sync those down from Goodreads as well. And then they would just show up in your notes and highlights with the name of the person who you were following. I think that would be really cool.”
News
“Another big Amazon acquisition, a Peloton IPO--and other commerce predictions for 2018” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - January 4, 2018
“Barnes & Noble shares hit near 24-year low after disappointing holiday sales” by Jessica Dye at The Financial Times - January 5, 2018
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on HQ2 prospects (CNBC) - January 3, 2018
PaddyPower odds for HQ2 cities - January 3, 2018
“This smart suitcase uses Segway technology to balance itself as it follows you around” by Thuy Ong at The Verge - January 4, 2017
CES in Las Vegas
Tech Tip
All about Kindle bookmarks
Interview with Tom Semple
The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed [Kindle in Motion] by Scott Parazynski
Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 Book 1) [Kindle in Motion] by Scott Meyer
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Illustrated [Kindle in Motion] by J. K. Rowling
Ricochet Joe (Amazon Original Story) [Kindle in Motion] by Dean Koontz
Spotify
Prime Music
Audible
Content
David Ignatius will appear on C-Span’s BookTV show Sunday, January 7, 2018 at noon EST
BBC iPlayer Radio app for Fire tablets
Next Week’s Guest
Dean Koontz, bestselling author of a new Amazon Original Story, Ricochet Joe, published by Amazon Publishing
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Co-founder of Select A Story
Interview starts at 8:33 and ends at 33:40
“An interactive story is essentially a series of interlocking short stories. I think a lot of authors kind of forget about that, and they end up writing a story where at the end of it, it’s like ‘Okay, you saw a spaceship, and then you thought to call the police and then you decided whether you should call your friend, and then you decided whether you should take a picture and put it on Instagram and then you went on the spaceship and you met the aliens, and it was fine. The end.’ Well, yeah, you had a number of choices, but they were all very similar to one another and that is not a story that anyone would write by itself.”
Tech Tip
Find your annotations at read.amazon.com/notebook
Interview with Katie Ernst
Select a Story website
Select a Story skill for Alexa
Cinder/Charming (Select a Story Book 1) Kindle format
“The Magic Door,” an Alexa-powered interactive adventure with original stories
“Alexa Skills Challenge Offers $250,000 in Prizes for Best Kid Skills” at Amazon Alexa blog - October 25, 2017
Content
Ricochet Joe by Dean Koontz
Comments
Fintie Folio Case for 9th Generation (7-inch) Kindle Oasis - $16.99
News
Amazon press release on holiday sales
“Amazon’s Alexa Won Christmas This Year” by Steve Kovach at Business Insider - December 26, 2017
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Doubledecker Bus Driver in London
Interview starts at 11:20 and ends at 39:30
“The [Fire HD] 8 will be my Kindle that travels with me. I take it to work. We’re not allowed to have them in the cab for fairly good reasons. They don’t want anything that will distract you from the job of driving.”
News
“The Kindle changed the book business. Can it change books?” by David Pierce at Wired - December 20, 2017
Mosaic app at iTunes Store
Tech Tip
Echo Connect and how to set one up
Alexa Voice Remote for Amazon Echo and Echo Dot
Interview with Mark Jarvis
Transportation for London (TfL)
The Elizabeth Line
CeX
All-New Kindle Oasis
BBC iPlayer
The Verb Podcast (BBC) - Jorie Graham interview
“Advertising Standards considers inquiry into Amazon Prime” at BBC - December 18, 2017
Amazon Key in-home delivery
Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Edition (Audible) read by Stephen Fry
The Quantum Spy: A Thriller by David Ignatius
The Theseus Paradox (Detective Inspector Jake Flannagan Series Book 1) by David Videcette
by Diarmuid Jeffreys
The Miniaturist: A Novel by Jessie Burton
The Poisonous Seed: A Frances Doughty Mystery by Linda Stratmann
by Max Hastings
Podcasts recommended by Mark Jarvis: History Extra (BBC) and 9yrspodcast (iTunes)
The Guardian and The Independent
Content
Goodreads Choice Awards 2017
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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
Interview starts at 9:06 and ends at 43:24
“I think Amazon feels pretty confident that they could attack any business they want, and the incumbents will spend four or five years resisting before they realize that they have no choice. Whereas a little proactive customer obsession on the part of any of those companies could probably make it so that Amazon decides to go elsewhere.”
News
“Kindle will evolve new forms of online literature: Sanjeev Jha, Director of Kindle Content India” by Rahul Sachitanand at The Economic times - December 10, 2017
Amazon announces expansion of Prime free same- and one-day shipping in time for Christmas (press release) - December 13, 2017
Click here to see if Amazon is offering free same-day and one-day Prime shipping to your city or town.
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“Amazon to start selling Apple TV and Google Chromecast” by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET - December 14, 2017
Tech Tip
“Amazon Alexa can now wake you up with music” by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch - December 11, 2017
Kindle Software update
Interview with James McQuivey
“Amazon Brings a Knife to a Mud Fight” at The Reading Edge - February 1, 2010
Echo Look
Echo Show
Echo Spot
Persado
The Stormlight Archive Book Series (including The Way of Kings) by Brandon Sanderson
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
Content
“2017 This Year in Books” - Amazon’s information from Charts
Next Week’s Guest
Longtime London listener Mark Jarvis
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Esmeralda and Richard deTrafford of Geraldton, Australia
Interview starts at 16:35 and ends at 40:26
“I don’t see any Amazon drones being launched here [in Australia], and I’m sure CASA [Civil Aviation Safety Authority] would have something to say about that. They're coming up with rules for drones and some of that stuff. So I don’t see that happening here any time soon.”
News
“Australian retailers rally as Amazon gets cool reception” by Byron Kaye at Reuters - December 4, 2017
“Amazon Australia has changed its webpage title to say it no longer just sells books” by Tony Yoo at Business Insider - December 4, 2017
“Amazon’s Weak Australia Launch is Great for eBay” by Wayne Duggan at U.S. News & World Report - December 7, 2017
“Don’t call it ‘Siri’: Why the wake word should be ‘computer’” by Stephen Harrison at Salon -
November 26, 2017
Cozmo by Anki
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
“Amazon Alexa Prize Competition winner takes home $500,000 prize” at DayOne, the Amazon Blog - November 29, 2017
Interview with Richard and Esmeralda deTrafford
Geraldton, Australia
The Australian Accent (YouTube)
Myer Market
Shipster by Australia Post
Aldi
Content
Kindle First is now Amazon First Reads
“Bill Gates gives us his top 5 favorite books for winter reading” at Boing Boing
Next Week's Guest
James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research
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CEO of Score Publishing, producer of Digital Book World 2018
Interview starts at 15:44 and ends at 43:43
“The Echo Show is an incredible glimpse into the future, because the future is going to be words come out of your mouth, and that’s how you engage the computer rather than typing on a QWERTY keyboard or moving a mouse.”
News
“Amid Takeover Talk, Barnes & Noble Posts $30 million Q2 Loss, Stock Sheds 10%” by Jonathan Ponciano at Forbes - November 30, 2017
“B&N Has Disappointing Second Quarter” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - November 1, 2017
“Barnes & Noble’s sales hit by the curse of Harry Potter” by the AP - December 1, 2017
“To save itself, Barnes & Noble is pivoting to books” by Thu-Huong Ha at Quartz - November 30, 2017
“Why Barnes & Noble Wants Smaller Stores” by Phil Wahba at Fortune - November 30, 2017
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
“No takeover for Barnes and Noble after that earnings bomb” at Yahoo Finance - November 30, 2017
“4 Reasons Barnes and Noble Failed the Nook” by Jessie Nuez at Babble - 2013
“Amazon’s Alexa heads to the workplace” by Dave Lee at BBC - November 30, 2017
Interview with Bradley Metrock
Score Publishing
Digital Book World
Alexa Conference - Keynote by Ahmed Bouzid, CEO Witlingo (and original head of product for Amazon's Alexa and Connected Homes initiative)
Tellables, Earplay (TKC interview with CEO Jon Myers in November, 2016), and Novel Effect
VoiceFirst.FM
AWS Reinvent
Tim O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference
Author Earnings (Hugh Howey and Data Guy)
Apple’s iBooks Author
WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up To Us by Tim O’Reilly
Outro Music:
“Happiness (in F major) by Bradley Metrock on Mountain Radio Silence, used with permission
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Editorial Director, AmazonCrossing
Interview starts at 18:00 and ends at 43:42
“One of the magical things about publishing is that when you get together with other people who work in this industry and immediately we share a common bond, this passion for bringing books to readers. It’s not unique. It is really wonderful to stand in a room full of people who are putting everything on the line toward that effort every day and who are excited to hear about the work that we’re doing to bring more diversity to literature through translation.” (Photo by Dean Whitmore)
News
“How the Kindle was designed through 10 years and 16 generations” by Devin Coldewey at TechCrunch - November 20, 2017
Chris Green on The Kindle Chronicles in April, 2016
Firmware updates page for Amazon devices
Tech Tips
Fire HD 8 - $30 off for Black Friday/Cyber Monday
Fire HD 10 - $50 off for Black Friday/Cyber Monday
“YouTube is Back on Amazon Echo Show” by Bret Kinsella at Voicebot - November 21, 2017
Eddie Mikell’s Echo Dot setup for the car (YouTube)
CoolStream Duo Bluetooth adapter ($29.99) at Amazon.com
Interview with Gabriella Page-Fort
Books published by AmazonCrossing
Chad Post’s Three Percent blog at University of Rochester
The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch, translated by Lee Chadeayne
The Glass Blower Trilogy by Petra Durst-Benning, translated by Samuel Willcocks
The Great Passage by Shion Miura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan, translated by Yuri Machkasov
P.S. From Paris by Marc Levy, translated by Sam Taylor
A number of titles from Petra Durst-Benning
The House by the River by Lena Manta, translated by Gail Holst-Warhaft (discovered through the AmazonCrossing submissions portal)
A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa, translated by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown
The Honest Spy by Andreas Kollender, translated by Steve Anderson
An American Princess by Annejet van der Zijl, translated by Michele Hutchison
The Judgment of Richard Richter by Igor Štiks, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac (discovered through the submissions site)
Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro, translated by Takami Nieda (discovered through the submissions site)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett [Kindle in Motion]
“AmazonCrossing Editorial Director Gabriella Page-Fort Named 2017 PW Star Watch ‘Super Star’” by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - September 6, 2017
Content
Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle, illustrated by Jill McElmurry
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
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Amazon Senior Vice President
Interview starts at 20:45 and ends at 43.37
“It was the first time we were building a device, so we had a lot to learn. After that the team and as a company we got better each time. So our second Kindle was developed more quickly, and now as you know that team is launching Kindles and Fire TVs and Fire tablets and Echos and more every year.”
News
Amazon Key
“Amazon will start delivering packages into the homes of Prime members” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - October 25, 2017
“Amazon Key Flaw Could Let Rogue Deliverymen Disable Your Camera” by Andy Greenberg at Wired - November 16, 2017
“Amazon’s Hall of Spinning Knives” by David Gaughran at Let’s Get Digital - October 20, 2017
“Alibaba Singles’ Day Racks Up $1 Billion in Sales in 2 Minutes” at Bloomberg - November 10, 2017
“Amazon’s Prime Day Generates Estimated $1 Billion in Sale” by Spencer Soper at Bloomberg - July 12, 2017
“Alibaba’s Singles Day Sales Hit New Record of $25.3 Billion” by Tiffany Hsu at The New York Times - November 10, 2017
Jeff Bezos 1997 interview by Richard Wiggins (YouTube)
Amazon’s Black Friday deals
Tech Tips
All-New Kindle Oasis
My video review of the new Kindle Oasis
Fawlty Towers
Echo Show
Garmin Speak
Interview with Steve Kessel
“Amazon SVP Steve Kessel returns from sabbatical to work on ‘super secret’ project” by Tricia Duryee at GeekWire - February 4, 2015
“Meet the Guy Behind Amazon’s Secret Retail Store Plans” by Jason del Rey - February 3, 2016
Harry Bingham on TKC 469 - July, 2017
X-Ray for Authors
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Best Books of 2017 selected by Amazon Books editors
“Amazon just revealed the most popular Kindle books of all time” by MJ Franklin at Mashable - November 14, 2017
Content
A Look Back at Kindle Bestsellers
Next Week’s Guest
Gabriella Page-Fort, editorial director for AmazonCrossing
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Author of I Wore My Blackest Hair
Interview starts at 12:34 and ends at 39:39
“I’m not sure about the future of Amazon [Publishing] in the literary world at large. I do think that for my book it’s been really interesting working with them and being able to answer those questions [about audience] and also to challenge myself more about how do I see this book existing in the world and what kind of spaces do I want it to enter and what kind of people do I want it to encounter. I think that working with Amazon has been interesting in that way, because they do have a very broad reach, and a very established way of doing things that for me has given a lot of structure to thinking about the book being out in the world.”
News
Brad Stone interviewed on Wall Street Journal Moneybeat Book Club podcast - November 4, 2017
“Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: “Told You I’m a Tech Buff” at TMZ - July 14, 2017
“Kindle with your kale? Amazon to sell electronic devices in Whole Foods stores” by Matt Day at The Seattle Times - November 9, 2017
Amazon Prime Now
Tech Tip
“Kindle e-readers to get Audible” - Michael Kozlowski Good E Reader video - November 2, 2017
Creating Alexa Voice Profiles - Amazon video
“Alexa Adds the ability to recognize different speakers’ voices” by Kevin Murnane at Forbes - October 12, 2017
Interview with Carlina Duan
I Wore My Blackest Hair by Carlina Duan - available for pre-order from Little a with delivery November 14, 2017
The Black Maria and Teeth by Aracelis Girmay
The Dark Noise Collective
Morgan Parker
Goodreads book giveaway for I Wore My Blackest Hair (ends November 13, 2017)
“Writing as Fuel” by Carlina Duan at The Michigan Daily - July 23, 2014
Day One, Amazon Publishing’s weekly digital literary journal
Vanderbilt University MFA program
Morgan Parker interview on TKC 391 - January 28, 2016
Content
A Polish eBook subscription service
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Best Books of 2017 as selected by Amazon’s book editors
“The Internet Archive ‘Liberates’ Books Published Between 1923 and 1941, and Will Put 10,000 Digitized Books Online” at Open Culture - November 9, 2017
Next Week’s Guest
Steve Kessel, Amazon Senior VP and head of the team that created the first Kindle
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Author of The Quantum Spy
Interview starts at 12:12 and ends at 34:00
“Jeff Bezos has been a great owner for The Post. He invested in our business. He has generally stayed away and let the editors and our publisher, Fred Ryan, run the business. He intervenes only occasionally. The first meeting he had when he came to The Post, he said, ‘I don’t know what’s going to work, but I want to lengthen the runway, so you have more time to experiment and take off.’ And we have begun to take off. We’re not rolling in money, but The Post is profitable again. I wondered if I’d ever see that. Our web traffic keeps exploding.”
News
All-New Kindle Oasis ships on Halloween
“All-New Kindle Oasis survives ocean dunking” by David Rothman at TeleRead - October 31, 2017
“Is the Kindle Oasis Really Worth It?” - my video review of the original Oasis in 2016
Interview with David Ignatius
The Quantum Spy by David Ignatius
Other novels by David Ignatius at Amazon.com
Body of Lies, the 2008 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, based on the novel by David Ignatius
“Our Villains, Ourselves: A Thriller Roundup” by Marisha Pessel at The New York Times - October 25, 2017
Content
PBS NewsHour profile of author Jesmyn Ward - October 27, 2017
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
Comments
Calibre
My video review of the new Kindle Oasis - October 31, 2017
Outro
Bufo Calvin’s “Because of the Kindle” project
Next Week’s Guest
Carlina Duan, author of I Wore My Blackest Hair, a debut poetry collection that will be published on November 14th by Little a, the literary imprint of Amazon Publishing.
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Kindle Creative Director Seth Micarelli, left, and Mike Torres, Kindle director of product management and design
Amazon announces all-new Kindle app (press release) - October 24, 2017
All-New Kindle Oasis
Kindle Select, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)
Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Next Week’s Guest
David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist and author of The Quantum Spy: A Thriller, available for pre-order with delivery November 7, 2017.
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Author of A Beautiful Work in Progress
Interview starts at 18:20 and ends at 43:17
“Whatever kind of mindset they’re stuck in about whether it’s weight loss or about whether or not you should be out there running in your big body, because maybe you’re going to hurt your knees or your back. You don’t know. You don’t know me. I don’t know you. You do your run, I do my run. And then we’ll all be happy.”
News
“As Amazon’s deadline for HQ2 bids closes, speculation on winner heats up” by Matt Day at The Seattle Times - October 19, 2017
“Where Amazon’s Next Headquarters Should Go” by Mark Zandi and Adam Ozimek at Moody’s Analytics - October 12, 2017
“Amazon is Most Likely To Build Its Second Headquarters In One Of These Five Cities” by Marcia Layton Turner at Forbes - October 19, 2017
“Boston Pushes Talent and Education in Amazon HQ2 Bid” by Zeninjor Enwemeka at WBUR - October 20, 2017
The Quantum Spy: A Thriller by David Ignatius - available for pre-order, delivered November 7, 2017
Tech Tip
New Kindle Oasis (8th Generation) software update 5.8.11
Interview with Mirna Valerio
A Beautiful Work in Progress by Mirna Valerio
Fat Girl Running
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
The Masters School at Dobbs Ferry
A Cappella Books in Atlanta
Content
“(Not so scary) Books for Little Ghosts, Ghouls and Narwhals” by Seira Wilson at The Amazon Book Review - October 5, 2017
How Will You Measure Your Life? By Clayton M. Christensen
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Arthur van Rest, left, GM Kindle Device & Accessories at Amazon, and Hany Ghali, Senior Product Manager, Kindle at Amazon Lab126
Interviews
Arthur van Rest and Hany Ghali at product demo October 5, 2017 in New York City: Starts at 7:22 and ends at 9:48
Hany Ghali phone/skype interview from Sunnyvale, California, on October 10, 2017: Starts at 20:26 and ends at 41:06
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Author of Point and Shoot Nature Photography
Interview starts at 10:55 and ends at 40:30
“Each of us sees the beauty around us and the meaning and the pathos and the feeling that happens around us. And the more we share it one person to another, the more we realize we’re really all the same. We really share an experience of life on the earth that is not just mine or yours but that belongs to us all.”
News
“Europe has ordered Amazon to pay nearly $300 million in back taxes” by Jason Del Rey and Tony Romm at recode - October 4, 2017
“Amazon is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS” by Spencer Soper at Bloomberg - October 5, 2017
The Everything Store by Brad Stone
Big savings on Kindles
Tech Tip
“Echo devices can now call US, Canada, and Mexico numbers for free--No extra hardware necessary” at AFTnews - September 30, 2017
Interview with Stephen Ingraham
Point and Shoot Nature Photography by Stephen Ingraham
Pic for Today by Stephen Ingraham
Point and Shoot Nature Photographer blog
Zeiss
Kindle and Print publish options at Kindle Direct Publishing
Stephen Ingraham on Google Plus, Instagram, and Twitter
Content
“Why Jeff Bezos was ecstatic over today’s Nobel Prize announcement” by Tom Teodorczuk at MarketWatch - October 5, 2017
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
“Amazon support forums to shut down. Big mistake! Write Jeff.”law by David Rothman
Dedication
This episode of the show is dedicated to my uncle, Bert Tighe, who passed away on October 5, 2017, at the age of 92.
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VP & Executive Editor at the Harper Division of HarperCollins
Interview starts at 21:54 and ends at 44:14
“I think publishers have some ideas about how Amazon feels about books, and I think Amazon has ideas about how little publishers about the business of books. And I think that they’re both wrong.”
News
“Introducing the Next Generation of Echo” - Amazon press release September 27, 2017
All-new Echo - $100
Echo Plus - $150
Echo Spot - $130
Echo Connect - $35
All-new Fire TV - $70
Echo Buttons (click at Alexa Gadgets page to be notified)
Interview with Sara Nelson
“Sara Nelson Heading to HarperCollins” at Publishers Weekly - June 28, 2017
Sara Nelson on TKC 419 - August 12, 2016
Omnivoracious, The Amazon Book Review
Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee by Wayne Flynt
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
“Making the List” by Sara Nelson at Publishers Weekly - December 22, 2008 (Includes rave mention of A Reliable Wife)
The Magnificent Esme Wells: A Novel by Adrienne Sharp - Available for pre-order with delivery on April 10, 2018
Review by Sara Nelson of The True Memoirs of Little K at Oprah.com (date unknown)
HarperCollins 200th anniversary
Next Week’s Guest
Stephen Ingram, author of Point and Shoot Nature Photography
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CEO of The Jillian Group
Interview starts at 12:16 and ends at 35:00
“When you build relationships for the sake of relationships, amazing things can happen. Your soil becomes so rich that what can grow and harvest is well beyond what you ever could have planted if you had known.”
News
Amazon press release announcing all-new Fire HD 10 - September 19, 2017
“Amazon is working on smart glasses to house Alexa AI, says FT” by Natasha Lomas at TechCrunch - September 20, 2017
“Why Alexa is on track to lose the Smart Home Assistant War” by Phil Hawthorne - September 16, 2017
“Amazon has 76% smart home speaker U.S. market share as Echo unit sales reach 15M, new study finds” by Taylor Soper at GeekWire - September 18, 2017
“Amazon Isn’t Just Spending Big Bucks on Groceries” by Justin Fox at Bloomberg - June 16, 2017
Tech Tip
“You can now search your library’s e-book collection straight from Google” by Sasha Lekach at Mashable - September 19, 2017
Interview with Jillian Vorce
The Jillian Group
20/20 Mind Sight: Refocus, Reignite & Reinvent Your Life from the Inside Out by Jillian Vorce and Phil Fragasso
Marketing for Rainmakers: 52 Rules of Engagement to Attract and Retain Customers for Life by Phil Fragasso
Other books by Phil Fragasso
Oprah Winfrey interviews Robert Kiyosaki (YouTube)
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! By Robert Kiyosaki
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
Hitch the movie
“The Lens of Creativity” presentation by Jillian Vorce at TEDxWaldenPond (video) - November 13, 2012
“Natick Rotary Club gathers to induct new members” by Peter Golden at WickedLocal - July 5, 2012
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Content
PBS Video app for Fire tablets
The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick
Outro
“A Week on the Wrist: The Apple Watch Series 3 Edition” by Benjamin Clymer at Hodinkee - September 20, 2017
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Vice President, Amazon Books stores
Interview starts at 10:48 and ends at 42:54
“We would like people who want physical books to walk out with a book, but if you walk out of our store, and you found three things to put on your wish list and two books that you want to buy for your Kindle, then we’re very, very happy.”
Intro
Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine September 15, 2017 hosted by Rich Brooks, founder of Flyte New Media
News
“Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You” by Emily Badger, Quoctrung Bui and Claire Cain Miller at The New York Times - September 9, 2017
“Amazon Weighs Boston in Search for Second Headquarters” by Spencer Soper at Bloomberg - September 12, 2017
“Amazon Music Focusing on Alexa, Echo to Stand Out Amid Streaming Competition” by Andrew Wallenstein at Variety - September 7, 2017
“Amazon’s ‘1-Click’ patent expires today…” by Monica Nickelsburg at GeekWire - September 11, 2017
“Amazon’s 1-Click Patent is About to Expire. What’s the Big Deal?” By Julia Dewitt at NPR - September 6, 2017
Tech Tip
Setting up an Echo Show remotely for my sister
Interview with Jennifer Cast
“Amazon’s new Belleview bookstore shows brick-and-mortar ramp-up” by Ángel Gonzáles
Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan
Outro
Apple Keynote including demo of Apple Watch Series 3 (at 32:20)
Next Week’s Guest
Jillian Vorce, author of 20/20 Mind Sight: Refocus, Reignite & Reinvent Your Life from the Inside Out
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Executive Editor at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
Interview starts at13:18 and ends at 42:00
“Books these days as they are produced are pretty nice little objects. And then there are so many different ways that can work. You can read a book on your phone--a ton of people read books on their phones. They read them on the web, they read them on an eReader of choice--they can read E Ink, they can read on something like a tablet with the iPad. None of that process seems messed up to me. There’s a lot of consumer choice, and there are a lot of different ways to read the same book.”
News
Amazon seeks proposals for its second headquarters - September 7, 2017
“Amazon Wants A Second HQ--and Walsh Says Boston Will be ‘Laser Focused’ On Bidding” by Zeninjor Enwemeka at WBUR - September 7, 2017
“Few Cities Could Accommodate Amazon’s New Headquarters” by Conor Sen at Bloomberg - September 7, 2017
“Amazon’s second headquarters: These cities are contenders” by Irina Ivanova at CBS Moneywatch - September 7, 2017
Amazon Prime Instant Pickup
“Amazon removes the Fire TV box from the ‘Fire TV Family’” at AFTVnews - September 7, 2017
Tech Tip
“Amazon Customers: Beware This Scam” by Joseph Steinberg at Inc. - September 5, 2017
Interview with John Morgan
Imprint, the Children’s Publishing Group at Macmillan
Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow
“Snowfall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek” by John Branch at The New York Times - 2012
The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt (Playstation 4) based on The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski
Tom Clancy’s The Division: New York Collapse (paperback only)
Tom Clancy’s The Division (videogame)
Melchor Media
The Future of Storytelling
Tilt Brush by Google
Kesler Woodward’s Painting in the North website
“Book Deal: The Wild Lands” at Paul Greci’s blog - July 14, 2017
Surviving Bear Island by Paul Greci
House of Stairs and Interstellar Pig and by John Sleator (paper only)
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Content
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Illustrated [Kindle in Motion]
Comments
Next Week’s Guest
Jennifer Cast, Vice President of Amazon Books, the brick-and-mortar stores unit of Amazon
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Author of George & Lizzie
Interview starts at 14:30 and ends at 44:06
“Because of their childhoods I think they approach the world in such different ways--George the pathological optimist and Lizzie the person who knows the glass is totally empty and that you’re just imagining any water. I don’t know what keeps any two people together in a marriage, and I’ve been married 51 years!”
News
“‘Cortana, Open Alexa,’ Amazon Says. And Microsoft Agrees.” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - August 30, 2017
Amazon press release - August 30, 2017
Amazon announces Alexa Prize Finalists
“Alexa, Play My Music Everywhere” - Amazon release August 29, 2017
Interview with Nancy Pearl
George & Lizzie: A Novel by Nancy Pearl (available for pre-order with release on September 5, 2017)
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason (2003) by Nancy Pearl
“‘I Want the Pages to Turn’: Librarian Nancy Pearl’s Summer Reading List” at National Public Radio’s Morning Edition - June 29, 2017
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore
Standard Deviation: A Novel by Katherine Heiny
Books by Laurie Colwin and Anne Tyler
Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler
Heart, You Bully, You Punk by Leah Hager Cohen (not available in eBook)
Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Rediscoveries series
The Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair Huffaker
Books by Georgette Heyer
Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart by Scott Anderson
Next Week’s Guest
John Morgan, Executive Editor at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group and editor for the forthcoming Young Adult novel The Wild Lands by Paul Greci
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Links
Wyoming Eclipse Festival
Vertical Horizons, co-founded by Howard Wishnow
Celestron EclipSmart binoculars
NASA’s Eclipse web site
My 360 video of the eclipse - Part 1 and Part 2
Next Week’s Guest
Nancy Pearl, author of George & Lizzie, her debut novel scheduled for release on September 5, 2017
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Co-founder and CEO of ComiXology
Interview starts at 9:40 and ends at 38:47
“When we made the business plan 10 years ago--it’s hard to remember this, but iPhones didn’t exist. None of us had any idea we were going to be heading into this world of carrying big pieces of glass around in our pockets or in our bags that would be so amazing for image-based reading.”
News
“L.L. Bean Beats Amazon.com, Once Again, For Best Customer Service” by Pam Goodfellow at Forbes - August 3, 2017
“Amazon Echo multiroom audio not far off, report says” by Megan Wollerton at CNET - August 8, 2017
“Need Something Extra Fast? Amazon Instant Pickup Launches This Week” - Amazon press release August 15, 2017
“Amazon’s Instant Pickup Service Shows Clearly Who Jeff Bezos is Targeting Next” by Eric Jhonsa at TheStreet - August 15, 2017
“Kindle Oasis in Short Supply, New Model Coming Soon?” at The eBook Reader - August 10, 2017
Tech Tip
Fire HD 8 - $80 at Amazon.com
Interview with David Steinberger
ComiXology
Guided View Native comics
Box 13: The Collected Graphic Novel
ComiXology Submit
Xkcd
John Lewis’s March series
The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
ComiXology Unlimited
Star Trek on ComiXology
Content
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal - August 17, 2017 episode includes James Patterson speaking about Amazon and his new book, The Store
The Store at Goodreads
“National security advisor attempts to reconcile Trump’s competing impulses on Afghanistan” by Greg Jaffe and Philip Rucker at The Washington Post - August 4, 2017
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam by H. R. McMaster
Next Week’s Show
Next week’s show will originate mainly in Casper, Wyoming, where I will travel to see the total eclipse of the sun on August 21st.
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Amazon’s former Director of Author and Publishing Relations
Interview starts at 0:22 and ends at 44:20
“I do think that there is an incredible level of smart, energetic, ambitious people at Amazon working in books. That’s an incredible asset. I’m optimistic that Amazon will continue to be able to hold its own. I also see great opportunity for others. I have a very optimistic view of the future of storytelling. I think it’s a great time to be a storyteller. You just have to be smart about the different ways you reach an audience.”
Interview with Jon P. Fine
OptiQly, where Jon Fine serves as General Counsel
Brilliance Audio
Amazon Literary Partnership
E.F. Hutton ad from the late 1970s
Audible Creation Exchange (ACX)
“Seattle’s Finest: Jon Fine is Leaving Amazon” by Porter Anderson at Thought Catalog - October 2, 2014
Next Week’s Guest
David Steinberger, co-founder and CEO of ComiXology, the digital comics and graphic novel retailer purchased three years ago by Amazon.
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Author of The Sky Below
Interview starts at 14:15 and ends at 41:36
“My goal with this book is to show people that it’s important to have high, lofty dreams, but it’s even more important to then have the vision and the resolve to make them come true.”
News
“Is Amazon getting too big?” by Steven Pearlstein at The Washington Post - July 28, 2017
“Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” by Lina M. Khan at the Yale Law Journal - January, 2017
“Amazon’s Jobs Fair Sends Clear Message: Now Hiring Thousands” by Noam Scheiber and Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - August 2, 2017
Tech Tip
Amazon instructions for using your Alexa device to control your Fire TV
Interview with Scott Parazynski
The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed by Scott Parazynski
Scott Parazynski on CBS This Morning - July 31, 2017
Upcoming Guests
Jon Fine, strategist for digital and traditional media organizations
David Steinberger, co-founder and CEO of ComiXology
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Author of The Deepest Grave (Fiona Griffiths Crime Thriller Series Book 6)
Interview starts at 12:26 and ends at 42:13
“The Big 5 publishers do have a model of ‘We will buy your book for life plus 70 years. In other words, I will get my books back about the time Bernie Madoff gets out of jail.”
News
Amazon earnings release - July 27, 2017
Earnings coverage by Recode and Publishers Weekly
Inside Edge Amazon Video original series in India
“This is Amazon’s Next Big Target” by CNBC - July 26, 2017
“Books are back, and that’s a very bad thing” by Graham Cooke at finder.com.au
“For 4 Seattle women called Alexa, it’s funny, frustrating to share name with Amazon’s device” by William Robert Ferrer at The Seattle Times - July 21, 2017
Scott Galloway: Amazon will be broken up (video) - July 13, 2017
“Trump Accuses Washington Post of being lobbyist weapon for Amazon” by Jacqueline Thomsen at USA Today - July 24, 2017
Tech Tip
Standard Ebooks
Interview with Harry Bingham
The Deepest Grave by Harry Bingham
Books by Harry Bingham at Amazon.com
The Writers’ Workshop
Harry Bingham interview in August, 2015, on TKC 367
An Interview with Fiona Griffiths
Content
Mermaid by Jody Picoult, a Kindle Single with Kindle in Motion animation
The Miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord, e-book published by Open Road Media
Next Week’s Guest
Scott Parazynski, author of The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed, available for pre-order from Amazon Publishing with release on August 1, 2017
Outro
Ellamy Tiller and The Twang
High Strung Reunion
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Founder of StandardEbooks.org
Interview starts at 11:43 and ends at 40:40
“One of the criteria for the books that we accept is that we very specifically don’t want to become a dumping ground for everything public domain. I think Project Gutenberg suffers from that to some extent. They are more of an archival website at this point. Anything and everything that was produced before 1923 gets on there, and a lot of stuff just wasn’t good. A lot of stuff didn’t survive for a reason.”
News
“Amazon launched 22 years ago this week--here’s what shopping on Amazon was like back in 1995” by Caroline Cakebread at Business Insider - July 20, 2017
“Here is the First Book Ever Ordered on Amazon” by Megan Garber at The Atlantic - October 31, 2012
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter
“Amazon possibly working on new stand-alone messaging app called Anytime” at AFTVnews - July 13, 2017
“PSA: here’s how to put your old Amazon shipping boxes to good use” by Natt Garun at The Verge - July 15, 2017
Give Back Box
“Amazon’s next Echo will be more like Apple’s HomePod” by Devindra Hardawar at Engadget - July 12, 2017
Amazon Treasure Truck
“The First Alexa Phone Gets Amazon Even Closer to Total Domination” by Brian Barrett and David Pierce at Wired - July 18, 2017
Interview with Alex Cabal
Standard Ebooks
Project Gutenberg
“The $5 million ‘Blurred Lines’ legal fight over the song’s ‘vibe’ could permanently change the music industry” by Paul Schrodt at Business Insider - December 15, 2015
Calibre
Books mentioned that are available at Standard Ebooks:
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
North of Boston by Robert Frost
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, translated by George Long
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
Content
Amazon Rapids feature Signature Stories
Next Week’s Guest
Harry Bingham, author of The Deepest Grave, the sixth book in the Fiona Griffiths detective seri3s
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New co-owner of Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver
Interview starts at 19:56 and ends at 43:00
“Bookstores have evolved over the years to become very much experiential retailing, and we’re no different.”
News
“Amazon Prime Day breaks record; sales grew by more than 60 percent” by Lauren Thomas at CNBC - July 12, 2017 (includes video of analyst Jan Kniffen)
Amazon press release on Prime Day - July 12, 2017
Furbo Dog Camera
Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine
Tech Tip
Libby by OverDrive
CloudLibrary
Interview with Len Vlahos
Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver
Books by Len Vlahos: The Scar Boys, Scar Girl, and Life in a Fishbowl
Starred reviews of Life in a Fishbowl in Publishers Weekly and Booklist
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken - Audible and Kindle
The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody - available for preorder, delivery on November 28, 2017
“SNL writer-turned-senator Al Franken talks Colorado politics ahead of Denver stop” by John Wenzel at The Denver Post - June 14, 2017
Tattered Cover Event Calendar
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Author of All our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride
Interview starts at 9:50 and ends at 35:52
“All memoirs build a container that’s something of a lie. (You can never say it all.) But this book gets a little closer to the truth in that surfing and Zen are just big characters among many.” (Photo by Peter Dawson)
News
Camino Island by John Grisham
“Amazon bookstores to participate in Prime Day for the first time” by Tonya Garcia at MarketWatch - July 5, 2017
Prime Day in Amazon Books stores
Echo Show
Nintendo Switch (gray)
Jeff Bezos’s tweet with link to New York Times column by The Haggler
“The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store” by Brad Stone at Bloomberg - October 10, 2013
Tech Tip
Click here to find Audible upgrades on your Kindle books.
Interview with Jaimal Yogis
Jaimal Yogis on TKC 236 in February, 2013
Books by Jaimal Yogis:
All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride (Published July 4, 2017)
The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing...and Love (2013)
Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zeon on the Sea (2009)
Saltwater Buddha The Film
Content
Standard Ebooks
Comments
Caseable cover for Kindle Voyage
“15 first-class Kindle Voyage cases and covers” by Piotr Kowalczyk at Ebook Friendly - February 19, 2017
Next Week’s Guest
Alex Cabal, founder of Standard Ebooks
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Author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Interview starts at 18:40 and ends at 43:00
“All the visions that most people have of the future are all dystopian, and they’re afraid. They’re worried. And yet the reality, the scientific evidence is that we are much better off today. Any of your listeners are 10 times better off than 10 or 20 years ago. ”
News
“Early data suggests Amazon’s Echo Show could be a hit with consumers” by Jonathan Camhi at Business Insider - May 24, 2017
Echo Show - $230 at Amazon.com. Buy two, save $100.
Prime Day Insider Guide
“The 5 best Amazon Prime Day deals you can actually get right now” by Samantha Gordon at USA Today - June 30, 2017
Interview with Kevin Kelly
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven Birkerts
Samsung Gear VR and Controller
Magic Leap
Recomendo newsletter
Next Week’s Guest
Jaimal Yogis, author of All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride, The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing...And Love, and Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea
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Reader’s Advisory Librarian at Seattle Public Library
Interview starts at 12:20 and ends at 37:05
“The Seattle Library has seen an exponential growth in our e-book usage, which like elsewhere is not cutting into our print usage. It’s additive, which is really interesting to say. Same with audiobooks. These new formats just seem to bring new people into reading and literature, so that’s all to the good.” (Photo by John Lok, The Seattle Times)
News
“New findings suggest it might be better to read toddlers an e-book than a print book” by Emma Young at The British Psychological Society Research Digest - June 15, 2017
“Amazon’s New Customer” by Ben Thompson at Stratechery - June 19, 2017
“In Whole Foods, Bezos Gets a Sustainably Sourced Guinea Pig” by Farhad Manjoo at The New York Times - June 17, 2017
“Open Road Integrated Media Newsletters Reach One Million Subscribers” - press release on June 22, 2017
Tech Tips
“Introducing Smart Home Camera Control with Alexa” by Jeff Blankenburg at Alexa Blogs - June 22, 2017
Interview with David Wright
Seattle Public Library
Nancy Pearl on TKC 268
Books by Jerome Charyn and James Sallis
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Books by Joanna Russ
Selected Shorts podcast
Books by Richard Matheson
Amazon support for Mary’s Place - Seattle Times May 14, 2017
Internet Archive
The Mysteries of Paris by Eugéne Sue
The Collected Works of Jack London
A Natural History of Hell: Stories by Jeffrey Ford (Includes “The Blameless”)
Articles by and about David Wright:
“Librarians of the 21st Century: Worst Story Time Ever? (Or Best?)” at LitHub - March 14, 2017
“Seattle library offers suspenseful story time just for grown-ups” by Nicole Einbinder at The Seattle Times - March 3, 2017
“Behind the Bookshelf: At home with a librarian” by Kelly Skahan at Seattle Refined
Readings (mp3) by David Wright:
Thrilling Tales events - a couple of ghost stories
Jean-Ah Poquelin, an old New Orleans Horror story by George Washington Cabell -
Some classic short-short stories:
William Hope Hodgson's A Voice in the Night
Nikolai Gogol's The Nose
Love Poems, by Lon Otto (NPR)
A pair of holiday tales (I read for NPR)
Content
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
George and Lizzy: A Novel by Nancy Pearl (Available for pre-order)
Comment
“Here’s An Idea For Amazon Kindle Books” by Dan Barnett at Medium - June 21, 2017
Next Week’s Guest
Kevin Kelly, author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
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Executive Editor and Co-founder of Book Riot
Interview starts at 10:10 and ends at 43:25
“If publishers woke up tomorrow and sanely priced e-books, I think it would be different in degree not in kind. I don’t think we’d see 10x growth in e-books’ market share. Maybe there would be 5, 10 percent [growth in] market share. I don’t know.”
News
“Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 billion” by Nick Turner at Bloomberg - June 16, 2071
Press Release announcing Whole Foods acquisition - June 16, 2017
“Cramer: Amazon could dominate food retail within two years” video at CNBC - June 16, 2017
“Amazon will be the first company worth $1 trillion” by Eric Johnson at Recode - June 12, 2017
Jeff Bezos tweet re: philanthropy
The Case for a National Library Endowment via David Rothman
Tech Tips
“How to install Google Play on Kindle Fire (without root) by Olga & Rachel at Love My Fire
Yousician
Interview with Jeff O’Neal
The Reading Ape
Book Riot
Book Riot podcasts: Book Riot, All the Books, Get Booked, SFF Yeah! (science fiction/fantasy), and Read or Dead (mystery/thriller)
Maud Newton’s blog
The Elegant Variation
Clinton Kabler, chief operating officer and co-founder of Riot New Media Group
Rebecca Joines Schinsky, executive director of product and ecommerce at Riot New Media Group
Amanda Nelson, managing editor of Book Riot
The New York Times Book Review
Goodreads
Wattpad
Scribd
Audible
Next Week’s Guest
David Wright, readers advisory librarian at the Seattle Library
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Co-founder and chief publishing officer of Unbound
Interview starts at 8:56 and ends at 42:25
“It’s not so much the elephant in the room. We are the room inside the elephant, if you look at the size that Amazon is growing as an online retailer. That kind of troubles me, because I feel a little bit like when publishing does get round to direct-to-consumer it will already be too late. ”
News
“Amazon Will Be the Fifth Largest Bookstore Chain” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - June 1, 2017
Amazon Fresh
“Amazon is going after Walmart with a 45 percent discount on Prime for lower-income shoppers” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - June 6, 2017
Tech Tips
“Amazon Unveils New Kindle Highlight and Note System” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - June 6, 2017
Interview with John Mitchinson
John Mitchinson on TKC 213 in 2012
Unbound
Unbound co-founders Justin Pollard and Dan Kiernan
QI (Quite Interesting), the BBC quiz show
Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts
Kickstarter and Indiegogo
Unbound books by Jonathan Meades and Jonathan Coe
Morgan Entrekin, president and publisher of Grove/Atlantic Books, cofounder of the Literary Hub website (Click here for Morgan’s appearance on The Kindle Chronicles in May of 2016 at BookExpo America.)
Unbound’s Backlisted podcast hosted by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller (author of The Year of Reading Dangerously) at SoundCloud and iTunes
Unbound Digital books at Amazon.com
A Murder of Crows by Ian Skewis
The Elegant Art of Falling Apart by Jessica Jones - $10.99 on Kindle, or $7.00 at Unbound (.mobi file download)
A Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough - $7.00 at Unbound
Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher - $15.39 on Kindle or $22.97 in hardcover at Amazon.com; $15 eBook or $35 special hardback edition at Unbound
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla (Unbound)
Tatterdemalion by Sylvia Linsteadt, illustrated by Rima Staines (Unbound)
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
Content
“5 Good Summer Reads” by Bill Gates at Gates Notes - May 22, 2017
Book Riot podcast with mention of Gates’s 5 Summer reads
Next Week’s Guest
Jeff O’Neal, executive editor and co-founder of Book Riot
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Inventor of the Hashtag
Interview starts at 12:30 and ends at 44:11
“Your pocket is now your garage, right. If one time you used to buy a car to sort of have in the garage to be like, ‘Wow. Look at this. I’m just going to go out and look at my baby.’ I think that in a similar way Apple thinks very similarly about computer products. And Amazon, meanwhile, is striking a much more ordinary context, like ‘Don’t think too hard about technology.’ But it should be there to enable your life to be easier, be simpler. ”
News
“Amazon’s stock price crosses $1,000 amid Wall Street love fest” by Ángel González at The Seattle Times - May 30, 2017
“The most bullish Amazon analyst on Wall Street thinks the stock will soar another 47% from here” by Akin Oyedele at Business Insider - May 10, 2016
Echo Look - $200 at Amazon.com
Tech Tips
“Now you can read your Kindle books in Virtual Reality” by Bufo Calvin at I Love My Kindle
Interview with Chris Messina
“Why Silicon Valley is all wrong about Amazon’s Echo Show” by Chris Messina at Medium - May 11, 2017
“Seeing Genius in Negative Space” by Chris Messina at Medium - May 19, 2015
“Introducing Echo Show” video at YouTube - May 9, 2017
Echo Show product page at Amazon
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Flickr
“Groups for Twitter; or A Proposal for Twitter Tag Channels” by Chris Messina at FactoryJoe.com - August 25, 2007
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2017
Steve Jobs in 1980 comparing computers to car models (YouTube)
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Author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Interview starts at 3:32 and ends at 42:21
“Not only does the guy [Pino Lella] deserve to be noted for what he did, his story is the story of faith, and the ability to endure, and the ability to go on, and the ability to the best and the worst of life in life. And yet still understand that it’s a miracle every day. ”
News
Amazon Fresh delivery in Denver
Tech Tips
“Amazon’s Alexa Calling is Like a Jetsons Version of the Home Phone” by David Pogue (includes video) at Yahoo! Tech - May 19, 2017
Interview with Mark Sullivan
Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel
The Assisi Underground: The Priests Who Rescued Jews by Alexander Ramati (not available on Kindle)
Valchiavenna Ski Area
Alberto Ascari
Con smania
Content
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan (Audible)
Guadacanal Diary and Invasion Diary, A Dramatic Firsthand Account of the Allied Invasion of Italy by Richard Tregaskis.
The Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson.
1. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
2. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy Book 2)*
3. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy Book 3)
Next Week’s Guest
Chris Messina, author of “Why Silicon Valley is all wrong about Amazon’s Echo Show”
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Co-founder of Tor Labs
Interview starts at 16:53 and ends at 40:00
“This story is 14 episodes, and it is about security chief Dakota Prentiss and Matt Salem, who are both ex-military, working at a secret military base that happens to have a flying saucer, an alien, and a mysterious thing called the harp. No one really knows quite what it does. They instantly fall in love with one another, but the hitch is that when you sign up for this gig there is an absolute, ironclad no-fraternization policy. ”
News
“Amazon Echo Silver” on Saturday Night Live (YouTube video) - May 13, 2017
“8 People Test Their Accents on Siri, Echo and Google Home | Wired” (YouTube video) - May 16, 2017
Seattle Times editorial on Amazon’s donation of space to Mary’s Place homeless shelter - May 14, 2017
“Why Silicon Valley is All Wrong about Amazon’s Echo Show” by Chris Messina at Medium - May 11, 2017
Tech Tips
“Alexa Calling Has a Major Privacy Flaw” by elise oras at Medium - May 12, 2017
“Amazon says caller blocking for Alexa/Echo is coming, amid customer complaints” by Todd Bishop at GeekWire - May 13, 2017
eReaderIQ
Interview with Jennifer Gunnels
“Tor Books Launching ‘Tor Labs’, a New Serialized Fiction Podcast Imprint” - Tor Books press release on May 1, 2017.
Mac Rogers
Gideon Productions
Arrival and Ocean’s Eleven
Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI) by Ted Chiang
LifeAfter (iTunes)
Felix & Paul Studios (VR)
Steal the Stars by Nat Cassidy - available for pre-order with delivery on November 7, 2017
Content
“Amazon Prime Reading Launches in the UK” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - May 18, 2017
“Amazon Starts Weekly Bestseller Lists” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - May 18, 2017
Next Week’s Guest
Mark Sullivan, author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel
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Digital and Archival Publishing Manager for The Associated Press
Interview starts at 12:51 and ends at 40:01
“I really try to get people to understand that every little basic functionality within e-books that Amazon keeps introducing--whether it’s their X-ray feature or Kindle Lending Library or whatever it might be within the e-book world or within the connection with the social-media platform Goodreads--these are all enhancements to your reading experience.”
News
Introducing Echo Show
“Amazon’s ‘Echo Show’ gives Alexa the Touchscreen it Needed” by David Pierce at Wired - May 9, 2017
Alexa Calling and Message (Amazon help page)
April Hamilton on Alexa’s new calling and messaging
Jeff Bezos at the Internet Association gala (video)
Tech Tips
Apple AirPods
Interview with Peter Costanzo
The Associated Press
Content
Dwight D. Eisenhower: An Associated Press Biography by Relman Morin
Saigon Has Fallen by Peter Arnett
My Time with the Kings: A Reporter’s Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement by Kathryn Johnson
Divided America: An AP Guide to the Fracturing of a Nation edited by Jerry Schwartz
Click here for a full list of books published by The Associated Press
Under the Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan
Next Week’s Guest
Jennifer Gunnels, a co-creator of Tor Labs, a new, experimental imprint of Tor Books. Tor Labs’s first project will be Steal the Stars, directed by Mac Rogers, whose podcast serial LifeAfter is an amazingly powerful audio drama.
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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
Interview starts at 11:17 and ends at 36:16
“I don’t think they [Amazon] really expect the fashion angle to be a big driver of these [Echo Look] devices. They needed a pretext. They needed a reason to put a camera in your home, to see how comfortable you are with that idea, to test whether or not there’s a big social outcry about putting cameras in people’s homes, whether they can start connecting what they see with what they know... Eventually that kind of visual intelligence will be a very crucial part of how Amazon builds a deeper relationship with you. But they had to start somewhere, and the closet, I think, was a pretty safe place to start.”
News
“Exclusive: This is Amazon’s new Echo with a built-in touchscreen” at AFTVnews - May 5, 2017.
“The first photo of Amazon’s Echo with a touchscreen may have just leaked” by Antonio Villas-Boas at Business Insider - May 5, 2017
“Amazon’s touchscreen Echo leaks again, in two colors” by Ashley Carman at The Verge - May 5, 2017
“Amazon Echo with a built-in screen may be on deck next month” by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET - April 27, 2017
“How eBooks lost their shine: ‘Kindles now look clunky and unhip’” by Paula Cocozza at The Guardian - April 27, 2017
Book Riot Podcast episode 207 with Jeff O’Neal and Rebecca Joines Schinsky
“Get Ready for Amazon Phone Take 2” by Daniel B. Kline at The Motley Fool - May 4, 2017
“Amazon patent shows how Alexa-powered devices could turn into extension phones” by Alan Boyle at GeekWire - May 2, 2017
Small Business Phone Systems - Voice and Data Cabling patent at Free Patents Online
Tech Tip
“Kindle iOS app gets all-text bold: Can help iPad and iPhone owners, even those with good eyes” by David Rothman at TeleRead - May 2, 2017
Amazon Advertising Preferences page
Interview with James McQuivey
Echo Look
Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey
The Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition by Eric Kandel, James Schwartz, Thomas Jessell et al
Nuance Communications
Comments
“This is what fraud looks like in the age of Artificial Intelligence” by Ben Dickson at The Next Web - May 3, 2017
Next Week’s Guest
Peter Costanzo, digital & archival publishing manager at The Associated Press
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Author of The Doctor Is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life and Joie de Vivre
Interview starts at 13:00 and ends at 41:17
“This is also my philosophy of life: I talk about a turtle. A turtle stays in one place--it’s safe. Nothing can happen. It carries its house on its back. If that turtle wants to move, it has to take a risk. It has to stick its neck out. And I like that image of the turtle.”
Intro
Echo Dot (2nd Generation)
Ask My Buddy skill for Alexa
News
Amazon’s first-quarter earnings release - April 27, 2017
“Amazon just turned a profit for the eighth straight quarter” by Jason Del Rey at Recode = April 27, 2017
Introducing Echo Look
This Week in Google episode 402 with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham (via Overcast, cued up to begin playing at discussion of Echo Look)
Tech Tips
“Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Says ‘Star Trek’ Inspired Alexa and Echo” by Mike Brown at Inverse - May 18, 2016
Vital Signs: Discovering and Sustaining Your Passion for Life by Gregg Levoy, who was my guest on TKC 335
A Book of American Martyrs: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates
Interview with Dr. Ruth Westheimer
DrRuth.com
“At Home with Dr. Ruth” - 2013 New York Times video
Dr. Ruth’s Twitter feed and YouTube Channel
The Doctor is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life, and Joie de Vivre by Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer
Leopold by Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer (and in paperback)
Sex for Dummies
Dr. Ruth’s Sex After 50: Revving Up the Romance, Passion & Excitement!
“The Biggest Names in Sex” by Daniel Radosh at The Daily Beast - January 12, 2009
Helen Singer Kaplan (Wikipedia) and New York Times obituary August 19, 1995
Content
Subscribe with Amazon
Half-price deal on Texture Premium for Prime members
Magazines included in Texture Premium subscription
Next Week’s Guest
James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at of Forrester Research. Click here for McQuivey’s post, “Alexa Will See You Now: Why Echo Has a Camera”
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Author of Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World
Interview starts at 10:33 and ends at 41:35
“Education increasingly wants to measure finite, little bites of stuff, and the digital technology that we are using in our education--and we do have print--is tailored to these quick wins as opposed to a deeper level of learning.”
Intro
My new VR setup: Samsung Galaxy Edge S8 with new Samsung Gear VR + controller
News
“Amazon continues to grow lead over Google as starting point for online shoppers” by Taylor Soper at GeekWire - January 13, 2017
Scott Galloway bio
“How Amazon is Dismantling Retail” - Scott Galloway video - April 17, 2017
Tech Tip
How I improved performance on my Amazon Fire HD 8 6th Generation tablet
Interview with Naomi S. Baron
Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
Content
Amazon Publishing’s summer-fall 2017 catalog (PDF)
Next Week’s Guest
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, author of The Doctor is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life, and Joie de Vivre
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Painter, art critic and historian
Interview starts at 15:00 and ends at 41:14
“I remember your talking on one of your programs about Jeff Bezos’s insisting on a one-second [Alexa] response when his staff said, “We can get this down to three seconds,” and he said, “That’s not good enough.” That makes a huge difference. It shouldn’t--we’re so impatient, I’m so impatient. But the fact that it is more more conversational and that I don’t have to wait and think about the fact that this is a machine processing it, makes it much more real to me.”
News
Jeff Bezos’s 2016 Letter to Shareholders - and the 1997 letter (PDF)
“Over 550 Amazon Employees Are Pressuring Leadership to Cut Advertising Ties With Breitbart” by Charlie Warzel at BuzzFeed - April 13, 2017
Tech Tips
How to connect Amazon Tap to a new wifi network (Amazon help page)
Ask My Buddy skill for Alexa
Interview with Kesler Woodward
Painting in the North, Kes’s web site
Western States Arts Federation
Kes Woodward on TKC 50 - July 1, 2009
iPad Mini 4
Bufo Calvin in VR on TKC 453 - April 7, 2017
Content
Audible Range “About” page with email signup
Next Week’s Guest
Naomi S. Baron, author of Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World
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Creator of I Love My Kindle and The Measured Circle
Interview starts at 6:14 and ends at 43:10
“It would also be able to know what your preferences are--that’s one of the biggest things about what we’ll see eventually with Virtual Reality. So for myself as a vegetarian, I could walk down that virtual aisle and have things that were for vegetarians maybe have a green outline on them, so that I could tell what was what.”
News
“Amazon exec steps in as CEO Jeff Bezos’s new ‘shadow’” by Rachel Lerman at The Seattle Times - March 14, 2017
Jeffrey Helbling on LinkedIn
“Amazon will start collecting sales tax nationwide starting April 1st” by Nick Statt at The Verge - March 24, 2017
“Amazon to hire 5,000 remote customer-service reps, part of drive to add 30,000 part-timers” by Angel Gonzales at The Seattle Times - April 6, 2017
Info on Nights & Weekends part-time Customer Service Associate jobs at Amazon
Amazon info page for AmazonCash
“Amazon allows customers to add cash to their accounts at brick-and-mortar retailers” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - April 3, 2017
Tech Tip
“Pogue’s Basics: Make Amazon Echo tell you when it’s transmitting” by David Pogue
Interview with Bufo Calvin
Bufo’s I Love My Kindle blog
Bufo’s The Measured Circle blog
“Videos in VR: Hulu vs. Netflix” By Bufo Calvin at The Measured Circle
Samsung Gear VR headset
vTime
Chimera Reader VR app
Oculus Rift VR headset
HTC Vive headset
The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
“Virtually Mike & Nora on Hulu” (YouTube)
Play Cardboard apps on Gear VR (Google Play store)
SideloadVR for GearVR (Google Play)
Content
Readly app at Amazon
Readly AT&T terms
“Readly Launches Exclusive Program with AT&T Thanks” at Crossroads Today - March 28, 2017
Outro
“Will Virtual Reality Replace Skype” - April 6, 2017. This is my Medium essay about the interview with Bufo Calvin in vTime.
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Author of “Jerry (from accounting)”
Interview starts at 14:56 and ends at 45:09
"I love what Amazon is doing in terms of giving access to a platform in a kind of populist way. I think that is incredibly helpful. I think the distribution is amazing. It creates new readers. I love the $2 price point for a novella. I think that’s definitely expanding who can have access to the writing and quality writing. Historically speaking the Big Five were very focused on content and less on how the distribution was happening, and that was what they were pretty good at. Amazon’s strength was in more distribution and being ahead of the curve on the eBooks. I think Amazon now is catching up and really focusing on content across the board."
News
“Amazon’s Ambitions Unboxed: Stores for Furniture, Appliances and More” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - March 25, 2017
“Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting started” at The Economist - March 25, 2017
“Amazon could become our leading physical retailer before very long” by Mike Shatzkin - March 21, 2017
“Busy Week for Amazon Ends with Stock Surge to Record Close” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - March 31, 2017
Tech Tip
Is your Amazon Fire HD 8 sluggish? Try shutting off some apps.
Interview with Timothy DeLizza
Day One Magazine (send submissions to dayone-submissions@amazon.com)
Jerry (from accounting) by Timothy DeLizza
Goodreads page for Jerry (from accounting)
My Medium post which mentions Jerry (from accounting) - March 8, 2016
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“Spiritual and Menial Housework” by Dorothy Roberts at Yale Journal of Law & Feminism - 1997
Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society by Paul Goodman
Latham & Watkins
Amazon Publishing’s Little a imprint for literary fiction and nonfiction
Books Timothy DeLizza is currently reading: There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyonce by Morgan Parker, Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones, Human Acts: A Novel by Han Kang
Outro
“Dr. Ruth Readies for Blast Off!” (video released by Amazon Publishing for April 1, 2017)
Next Week’s Guest
Bufo Calvin of the I Love My Kindle blog and I will rendezvous in Virtual Reality via an app named vTime to discuss how Amazon may get involved in VR this year.
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Co-founder of Ask My Buddy
Interview starts at 18:45 and ends at 41:25
"In terms of users or penetration, I would say that Google Home probably represents about less than 10 percent on our network. [Alexa has the rest.] That’s just time out there, the commercials. They’re just more widely known. Also, I would say the reduction in price, coming out with the Dot for 49 bucks--that was an end all. There were millions that went out. I would say that the price point developed a stronger user base for Amazon."
Audio and links from South By Southwest
PARCO shopping mall in Japan
“Facebook debuts its first dedicated virtual reality app, Facebook 360” by Lucas Matney at Techcrunch - March 8, 2016
Ana Benitez, President, Storyrocket
Khushi Baby health monitor in India
Felix & Paul Studios (interview with Robin Lippman, content coordinator)
“Is this the future of movies?’ by Len Edgerly at Medium - March 14, 2016
“At 40 minutes, Miyubi is the first VR movie to feel like a real film” by Adi Robertson at The Verge - January 24, 2017
Deen Wright, founder of BASE, Buy and Sell Everything
Tech Tip
My Medium post which explains how to set up and use Ask My Buddy on Alexa
Interview with Patrick Coggins
Ask My Buddy website
Ask My Buddy smartphone/tablet apps for iPhone (iOS) and Android
Alexa devices from Amazon: Echo, Tap, and Dot (2nd Generation)
Google Home
Mycroft open-source platform
4AFart Alexa skill
Google’s api.ai tool
Alexa web portal
“Amazon plans to release new Alexa devices that can make phone calls and work as intercoms” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - March 3, 2017
Next Week’s Guest
Timothy DeLizza, author of “Jerry (from accounting)”
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David Measer of RPA Advertising and Lisa Pecot-Hebert of USC
Interview starts at 25:08 and ends at 49:15
I expected the smaller cities in the U.S. to be places where eventually trends made their way there and that they’d be listening to music that I listened to 10 years ago, or wearing fashion that was old. And it wasn’t like that at all. These places, cities that I couldn’t even identify on a map before I went--Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Fargo, North Dakota; Moorehead, Minnesota; Omaha, Nebraska--were actually places that were thriving in their own way. They really had an identity of their own, and they felt like they were leading the charge. They weren’t drafting off of the big coastal cities. (David Measer)
Shorter Interviews at SXSW (with times at which they start)
Steph Hay, head of conversation design at Capital One. (5:32)
Scott Totman, head of mobile technology, payments and innovation at Capital One (10:40)
“The Urgency of Now: Launching the Biden Cancer Initiative” - Joe Biden’s talk at SXSW (13:03)
Omar Siddiqui, CEO of Kiwi Inc., creators of Sequel, a bot-creation platform. He was a presenter at “Best Bot Practices” session. (17:31)
Facebook Messenger
Romance Now, a bot available on Kik
Interview with David Measer and Lisa Pecot-Hebert
“One Hundred Million People You Don’t Know But Should” - event description at SXSW. Click here for my liveblog of the session. You will need to click again on the post headline to see the individual liveblog entries.
David Measer
Lisa Pecot-Hebert
Vice
Next Week’s Show:
More from South By Southwest
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Author of Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Interview starts at 10:27 and ends at 41:38
“Billie Jean King is very aware of my Ripper book, and we talked about it when I began all this investigation in 2001, because Billie Jean had been a friend of mine for many years. We talked about this, and she said, ‘You need to talk to the people at Amazon about this, because this is a really unusual project.’” (Photo Credit: Ecclesine)
News
Author Earnings report for February 2017
“Amazon could hammer the final nail into the iPad’s coffin” by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDENet -n March 6, 2017
Interview with Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell’s books at Amazon.com
Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert by Patricia Cornwell
Next Week’s Show
Interviews and new ideas from South By Southwest Interactive in Austin. Click here for a link to the events I have favorited and may attend.
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Author of The Kutherian Gambit series
Interview starts at 10:15 and ends at 43:51
"When I originally put out Book 1 I had no idea if anyone cared about my stories. I didn’t want to invest a lot of time, money, and effort if nobody wanted to read it."
News
“Site of Amazon’s Cloud glitch made it especially disruptive” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - February 28, 2017
“The embarrassing reason behind Amazon’s huge cloud computing outage this week” by Brian Fung at The Washington Post - March 2, 2017
“Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region” - Amazon Web Services statement
“Amazon Cloud Snafu Snarls Web Traffic” at WSJ What’s News podcast - March 1, 2017
“Amazon Unveils First East Coast Bricks and Mortar” by Alex Green at Publishers Weekly - February 28, 2017
“Amazon plans to release new Alexa devices that can make phone calls and work as intercoms” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - March 3, 2017
Tech Tip
Lazy-Hands grip for tablet and e-readers
Interview with Michael Anderle
The Kutherian Gambit series by Michael Anderle
Stephen Campbell’s interviews with Michael Anderle at The Author Biz on November 15, 2016 and January 25, 2016
Trader’s Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series by Nathan Lowell
Her Royal Runner (The Courier Chronicles Book 0) by Joey Anderle
Next Week’s Guest
Patricia Cornwell, author of Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
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Author of Four Seasons of Reno Hart and Creator of The Author Biz podcast
Interview starts at 10:33 and ends at 42:30
"The power of Amazon Publishing--if you’ve written a good book and the people at Amazon support the book--there are so many levers and knobs that they can turn to put it in front of the people who will like it. It is astonishing. There’s nothing like it."
News
Amazon discount to celebrate Harris Poll ranking - press release on February 22, 2017
“With Amazon Books, Jeff Bezos Is Solving Digital Retail’s Biggest Design Flaw” by Noah Robischon at Fast Company - February 13, 2017
“9 Statistics Writers Should Know About Amazon” by Jane Friedman at JaneFriedman.com - February 16, 2017
Tech Tip
Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1-5) by Hugh Howie with Kindle in Motion update
Interview with Stephen Campbell
The Author Biz website and podcast
Four Seasons of Reno Hart by Stephen R. Campbell
The Hardy Boys Starter Set (5 Volumes) by Franklin W. Dixon
Cozy Mysteries (new releases in 2016) at Amazon.com
Mysteries by Agatha Christie
The Taylor Stevens Show podcast
Books by Taylor Stevens
Books by Paul Levine
Mysteries by Harry Bingham (99-cent sale ends February 24, 2017)
Books by Barbara Nickless, and her website
The World’s Best Cat Litter
Content
Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert [Kindle in Motion] by Patricia Cornwell
“Jack the Ripper: Patricia Cornwell ‘Proves’ Walter Sickert Was the Killer in Second Book” by Sara C Nelson at Huffington Post - February 21, 2017
Next Week’s Guest
Michael Anderle, author of The Kurtherian Gambit series
Outro
My talented niece Fran Betlyon sings my father’s favorite song on his 90th birthday on February 18.
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Technology Reporter at Observer.com
Interview starts at 10:30 and ends at 42:19
"That’s why I call this whole printed book thing fetishism. What’s more important? Is literature and writing important or is this object more important? I think literature is more important, and writing is important. I don’t really care how people read it. I just really want to push back on this idea that there’s something sad that we’ve lost because print books are fading, when what I care about is not print or first editions. I care about people reading and the act of writing and that creative work."
News
“Amazon Alexa Voice Service Coming to DTS Play-Fi” - September 28, 2017
“Why Amazon is the World’s Most Innovative Company of 2017” by Noah Robischon at Fast Company - February 13, 2017
“Amazon.com Takes Aim at Victoria’s Secret With Its Own $10 Bras” by Khadeeja Safdar and Laura Stevens at The Wall Street Journal - February 10, 2017
“AWS Announces Amazon Chime” - press release February 14, 2017
Amazon Chime
Tech Tip
“Owners of first and second generation Kindles can’t register them” by Andrew Liptak at The Verge - February 11, 2017
“Amazon Tap’s new hands-free Alexa update means it’s actually useful” by Lauren Goode at The Verge - February 9, 2017
Interview with Brady Dale
“Despite What You Heard, The E-Book Market Never Stopped Growing” by Brady Dale at Observer.com - January 18, 2017
“Titans of Kindle” series by Brady Dale
Podiobooks
“How to reach me secretly and securely” by Brady Dale at Medium - February 12, 2017
Google Authenticator
Mailbox.org
Sync.com
ProtonMail
“On Twitter, Users Shouldn’t Need a Name” by Brady Dale at Observer.com - February 14, 2017
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Historian at the Sanibel Public Library
Interview starts at 3:01 and ends at 34:30
[On Anne Morrow Lindbergh:] “Going up and learning how to fly--I mean, in that era was pretty impressive. I’m kind of struck by the fact that a lot of times when we look back and say ‘Gee, in the 50s it was kind of daring of a woman to do that.” It may have been as a wide generality, but there have always been daring women. You can go back to Cleopatra, and there’s plenty of them around.”
News
“Amazon hunts for London shops” by Aimee Donnellan and Simon Duke at The Sunday Times - February 5, 2017
Tech Tip
“Amazon’s Tap Speaker gets a hands-free update in defiance of its name” by Brian Heater at TechCrunch - February 9, 2017
Interview with Betty Anholt
Sanibel Public Library
Sanibel’s Story: Voices and Images from Calusa to Incorporation by Betty Anholt
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
Poetry by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Listen! The Wind by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, winner of the 1939 National Book Award
N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge
Sanibel Island Light House
Next Week’s Guest
Brady Dale, of Observer.com, author of “Despite What You Heard, the E-Book Market Never Stopped Growing” on January 18, 2017
Outro
The Author Biz hosted by Stephen Campbell
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President of The Future of Publishing
Interview starts at 8:19 and ends at 44:04
"I’m convinced that if you want to retain your job in publishing moving forward, unless you’re demonstrably technology adept, you’re going to lose your job. Yeah, there’s room for 100 amazing editors who can’t even use a computer, but that’s not the run-of-the-mill worker in publishing today. They need to be imbued with a knowledge of technology."
News
Amazon’s earnings (Forbes) - February 2, 2017
Amazon press release on earnings
Walmart going after Amazon Prime (Recode) - January 31, 2017
David Frum in The Atlantic’s March issue
Jeff Bezos statement on immigration executive order
Give Trump a Chance debate
Interview with Thad McIlroy
The Future of Publishing website
“An Authoritative Look at Book Publishing Startups” by Thad McIlroy
Shelfie
“Shelfie Closes” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - January 31, 2017
John LeCarré: The Biography by Adam Sisman
BookBub
PerfectIt
The Bestseller Code by Jodi Archer and Matthew L. Jockers
“Leisure time on an average day” - chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Data Guy’s presentation at 2017 Digital Book World
Next Week’s Guest
Betty Anholt, historian at the Sanibel Public Library
For Updates on our Florida Sojourn:
Click here for my essays on Medium
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Co-Authors of Evelyn’s Lighthouse
Interview starts at 14:58 and ends at 44:35
Patience: "It was really meant to inspire other younger girls or the readers to read more, because I’ve always loved reading, and Evelyn loves reading. We really hope that it causes others to want to read just as much as Evelyn does."
News
Author Earnings Book stats presented at Digital Book World
“Despite What You Heard, The E-Book Market Never Stopped Growing” by Brady Dale at Obvserver.com
Amazon movie nominated for Best Picture Oscar
“Amazon to close Kindle ‘Write On’ author community, pulling the plug on story lab” by Todd Bishop at GeekWire - January 26, 2017
Tech Tip
Knotes Kindle clippings manager
Interview with Patience Clevenger and Mark Roberts
Evelyn’s Lighthouse by Patience Clevenger and Mark Roberts
Split Rock Lighthouse
American Girl dolls and books
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
United States Lighthouse Society
Out of My Mind by Karen M. Draper
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
Mark Roberts’s interview of me in March, 2013
My interview of Mark Roberts in January, 2014
Resources Mark Roberts used for Evelyn’s Lighthouse: cover by Rick Holland, Kindle formatting by Rachel Greene
Next Week’s Show
Darlene, her sister Deb and I will head to Sanibel Island next, so you will probably be hearing the sounds of wildlife and quiet days looking for shells next week. Happy reading!
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You can follow along on our Florida sojourn via my travel essays at Medium and photos at Instagram. I am also posting the occasional 360 video at Periscope. Enjoy!
Our supper aboard the Silver Meteor en route to Kissimmee, Florida
News
“How Netflix Lost Big to Amazon in India” by Abhishek Madhaven at Backchannel - January 12, 2017
Tech Tip
“Is Amazon’s Newest 5% Credit Card Worth the Hype?” by Nick Clements at Forbes - January 13, 2017
Interview with Kindle Owner Robert Millonig (Starts at 17:51 and ends at 27:35)
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauf
Next Week’s Guests
Mark Roberts and Patience Clevenger, co-authors of Eveylyn’s Lighthouse
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CEO of Open Road Integrated Media
Interview starts at 14:22 and ends at 41:41
Links for Interview with Paul Slavin:
Open Road Integrated Media website
Paul Slavin’s 2016 year-end letter to employees
Early Bird Books newsletter
BookBub
BookGorilla
Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West
Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T. J. Stiles
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
Next Week’s Show
I plan to record the next TKC episode aboard Amtrak’s Silver Meteor from Penn Station in New York City to Kissimmee, Florida. If I am able to upload 360 videos from the train you will see them at Periscope.tv/lenedgerly.
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Author of Books for Living
Interview starts at 19:07 and ends at 43:15
"One of the reasons I come back to Lin Yutang is a marvelous story he tells, in 1937, about being in the most famous tea house in China. And the tourists there are so busy taking photographs of themselves drinking tea that they don’t enjoy the tea. And I thought to myself, ‘We blame too much on the machines.’ Constant connectivity is our fault. It’s not the fault of the little items we hold in our hands. And it’s been a problem—distraction and impatience have been with us since the dawn of time. So my first thing is to blame myself and not the machine.
News
“How Alexa Won CES” (video) by Geoffrey A. Fowler at The Wall Street Journal - January 6, 2017
“Amazon’s Alexa is everywhere at CES 2017” by Jacob Kastrenakes at The Verge - January 6, 2017
LG press release on Smart Instaview refrigerator - January 4, 2017
“Mattel’s $300 Echo clone will read your children bedtime stories” by James Vincent at The Verge - January 3, 2017
“Lynx Robot is Alexa’s best disguise at CES 2017” by Andrew Gebhart at CNET - January 5, 2017
“Get Ready, Your Robotic Roomate is Moving in” by Aki Ito at Bloomberg - January 6, 2016
“Murder Suspect’s Amazon Echo device could help solve the case” by Chris Graham at The Telegraph - December 28, 2016
“Bentonville PD Says Man Strangled, Drowned Former Georgia Officer” at 5News - February 23, 2016
“Police ask: “Alexa, did you witness a murder?” by Sean Gallagher at Ars Technica - December 28, 2016
Bentonville Police search warrants in Bates case
Amazon Books page at Amazon.com
Tech Tip
ereaderiq.com
Interview with Will Schwalbe
Books for Living by Will Schwalbe
“The Need to Read” by Will Schwalbe at The Wall Street Journal - November 25, 2016 (Behind a paywall; try Googling “The Need to Read by Will Schwalbe”)
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang
“Cabdriver’s Book Club” by Ryder Ziebarth at The New York Times - March 11, 2013
The Golden Age: A Novel by Joan London
Three Lives & Company bookstore in New York City
Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine by Jane E. Smith (not available on Kindle)
Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
“Lessons on How to Live, in 26 Books” by A. J. Jacobs at The New York Times - December 23, 2016
Next Week’s Guest
Paul Slavin, CEO of Open Road Integrated Media
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My Wife Darlene, Claire and a new quilt
Interview starts at 12:28 and ends at44:58
"What’s great about Audible is you still get to hear a story. You’re not reading it, but you’re still getting a story. And for me sometimes when I get stuck on stuff in my studio, it’s just keeping me in the room long enough to get past it. And Audible does that."
News
“Alexa Devices Top Amazon Best-Seller List This Holiday - Millions of Alexa Devices Sold Worldwide” - press release December 27, 2016
“Amazon Has ‘Best Ever’ Holiday” at Forbes - December 27, 2016
“Not Everyone Shops on Amazon. Who Knew?” at WSJ What’s News podcast - December 30, 2016
“Amazon workers sleep in tents near firm’s Scottish depot to avoid travel costs” by Tom Mendelsohn at Ars Technica - December 12, 2016
“Here’s How Amazon is Flexing Its Muscle in Air Cargo” by Reuters at Fortune - December 23, 2016
“Amazon looks to the sky to store products” by Reuters at Yahoo Finance - December 29, 2016
“As We Leave More Digital Tracks, Amazon Echo Factors in Murder Investigation” at NPR - December 28, 2016
“Can Alexa help solve a murder? Police think so—but Amazon won’t give up her data.” by Amy B. Wang at The Washington Post - December 28, 2016
Interview with My Wife Darlene
“Is the Kindle Oasis Really Worth It?” - My YouTube review of the Oasis featuring “The Wife Test,” Darlene’s first impressions - April 27, 2016
Audible
Web page of Darlene’s quilting teacher, Susan Carlson
Amazon Echo and Dot
Pentatonix
“These Ford Cars Will Soon Be Able to Talk to Amazon’s Alexa” by Reuters at Fortune.com - October 3, 2016
Spire breath tracker
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Author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book
Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05
“There’s often a false division between audiobook listeners and print book readers, because in my experience the two are almost always the same. They’re people like me who just love reading and want to do as much of it as possible, and audiobooks are a way to do that."
News
Jeff Bezos interviewed by Walter Isaacson at The Aspen Institute (YouTube) - October, 2016
“There’s a great new way to reuse your old Amazon shipping boxes” by Kif Leswing at Business Insider - September 23, 2016
“Give Your Amazon Box New Life” at Amazon.com
GiveBackBox.com
Amazon Echo, Dot, and Tap
“Amazon bets big on Las Vegas, rolling out nearly 5,000 Echo unites to hotel rooms” by Teena Maddox at TechRepublic - December 16, 2016
“Voice is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It” by Jessi Hempel at Backchannel - December 19, 2016
Tech Tip
Audible Channels available on Fire tablets
Fire TV software updates
Interview with Matthew Rubery
The Untold Story of The Talking Bookby Matthew Rubery
Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX)
“Audiobooks were set to destroy books—but instead, they opened a new world” by Kevin Canfield at The Washington Post - December 8, 2016
Content
Link to free audible audiobook of Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime (US only)
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Author of the Making Book blog
Interview starts at 14:03 and ends at 44:31
"The idea that Barnes & Noble can make it by sort of becoming a small specialist, cozy bookstore is kind of delusional. It’s a big organization!"
News
Amazon Prime Air
Jeff Bezos’s tweet announcing first Prime Air delivery - December 14, 2016
Jeremy Clarkson Prime Air video - November, 2015
Amazon White Papers on recommended drone access policy and revised air space model
WSJ Tech News Briefing podcast on Prime Air
More coverage of Prime Air at Wired, BBC, PC Magazine, and ABC
BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38320067
Tech Tip
To have Alexa play this podcast, say “Alexa, on Tune-in Radio, play The Kindle Chronicles podcast.”
You might also try this: “Alexa, sing O Christmas Tree”
“Amazon Fire TV Interface gets a makeover with new 5.2.4.0 firmware” by Alejandro at htpc Beginner - December 2, 2016
Software update 5.8.7 for Kindle Oasis
Good deals on Kindle covers via TKC listener Marc:
Inateck Kindle Cases Starting from $6.59 + Free Shipping via Slickdeals Hot Deals Forum
Inateck Online via Amazon is discounting the following cases:
Kindle Paperwhite Microfibril PU Leather Case [amazon.com] code: KPCOFF40
Mint Green $6.59 Pink $7.19 Blue $7.19 Black $7.79
Kindle Paperwhite Premium PU Leather Case [amazon.com] Now $8.39 code: KPLOFF44
Brown Blue Red
Kindle Voyage Premium PU Leather Case [amazon.com] Now $7 code: KVLOFF56
Interview with Richard Hollick
Making Book blog
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R. R. Martin
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) by Eliot Weinberger
“Dylan’s Nobel” at Making Book - December 13, 2016
“Bob Dylan: The Music Travels, the Poetry Stays Home” by Tim Parks at The New York Review of Books - October 16, 2016
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone - available on Kindle at $15.99 for pre-order with delivery January 31, 2017
“B&N’s Misunderstanding” at Making Book - November 16, 2016
Medium.com
“Google Deletes Artist’s Blog: He Has No Backup, and Only Himself to Blame” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - July 14, 2016
Call Recorder for FaceTime
Note on Last Week’s Bluehost outage
Next Week’s Guest
Matthew Rubery, author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book, published last month by Harvard University Press. Click here for the Audible version.
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Senior Pastor of New Covenant Church, Indianapolis
Interview starts at 7:20 and ends at 33:36
I think it’s a matter of accepting the change that God has provided with these tools, learning how to use the tools. For example, we could try to tell people, “Well, don’t go to the movies.” Well, they’re going to the movies. Teach them how to go to movies. With social media and all the rest, I believe we need to just focus on making it useful, making it fruitful, trying to remove distraction. In other words, let’s not throw it out because some people abuse it. Let’s be disciplined with it. Let’s have purpose for it. Let’s use it in a way that is productive. So I believe that rather than complain about it, let’s harness it like one may harness a wild horse. Break the horse, you know? Learn to ride it! Let’s ride this, and let’s make the best use of it.
News
AmazonGo introduction video - December 5, 2016
A look back - Amazon Unveils Futuristic Plan: Delivery by Drone at CBS - December 1, 2013
“Can You Buy a Grain of Salt at Amazon Go?” by Ryan Mac at Forbes - December 5, 2016
“Amazon Working on Several Grocery-Store Formats, Could Open More than 2,000 Locations” by Laura Stevens and Khadeeja Safdar at The Wall Street Journal (paywall)- December 5, 20126
“Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ Technology Isn’t Revolutionary” (video) - James Corden on the Late Late Show December 7, 2016
“From Fire House to School Halls, Mark Bezos Advocates Volunteering” by Ryan Deffenbaugh at WAG Magazine - December 1, 2016
Mark Bezos’s TED talk - March 2011
Interview with Pastor Bryan Hudson
Herron School of Art + Design
New Covenant Church’s 2016 Kenya Mission video
Books by Bryan Hudson including Romans Road: Inspiration & Insights from the Book of Romans
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Multimedia in Focus media camp: http://www.visionmultimedia.org
Lightning Source by Ingram
Content
Audible offers Invisible Man free till December 31 - a message from Audible founder Don Katz
Next Week’s Guest
Richard Hollick, author of the Making Book blog
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Head of Cynthia Manson Literary Agency
Interview starts at 14:30 and ends at 41:06
"The trick is that if you have an author that is struggling to find that audience, to find that readership--Alan [Russell] is a perfect example, because he always got wonderful reviews, is a fantastic writer, still has a great relationship with his former editor at St. Martins, but there was always a struggle to find that readership. Amazon [Publishing] was able to do that through their own algorithms and their own customized ways of doing e-mails and finding those readers. I do think it’s just a different technique. Probably authors like Lee Child wouldn’t necessarily benefit from that, because we know that Lee Child is a major bestseller with Random House. He knows who his readers are."
News
“Reducing Friction on Mobile,” a Manifesto 2016 talk by Kintan Brahmbhatt, Director of Prodcut & Program Management for Amazon Prime Music” (video) - April 8, 2016
“Amazon Plans Premium Alexa Speaker With Large Screen” by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg - November 29, 2016
“Amazon Wants Alexa to Take Control of Your Smart Home” by Greg Bensinger at The Wall Street Journal - May 17, 2016
“Alexa, Tell Me Where You’re Going Next” by Steven Levy at Backchannel - November 30, 2016
Amazon press release on holiday shopping weekend record - November 29, 2016
Tech Tip
Check here for all Kindle and Fire software updates
Software Update 5.8.7 for Kindle Oasis (8th Generation), Kindle (8th Generation), Kindle (7th Generation), Kindle Voyage (7th Generation), and Kindle Paperwhite (7th Generation), Paperwhite (6th Generation)
“Kindles finally get all-text bold” by David Rothman at TeleRead - December 1, 2016
Interview with Cynthia Manson
Sterling Lord
Books by Naomi Novik
Kindle Direct Publishing
Thomas & Mercer books at Amazon.com
Arctic Fire by Stephen Frey
Red Cell (3 Book Series) by Stephen Frey
Books by Alan Russell
Books by Robert Masello
Content
Aubrey/Maturin Novels (21 Book Series) by Patrick O’Brien, beginning with Master and Commander - $199.27 on Kindle
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brien - $1.99 on Kindle
Comments
“Author Ian McEwan: ‘Very few novels earn their length’” by Keith Perry at The Telegraph - September 1, 2014
Next Week’s Guest
Bryan Hudson, senior pastor of New Covenant Church in Indianapolis
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Senior Books Editor at Amazon.com
Interview starts at 12:41 and ends at 43:35
"[The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis] is one that I personally wanted to see as high on the list as possible. It’s a fictional story set in a post-apocalyptic world. It’s as if we’re living again in the Old West, so there’s vigilante justice, there are small pockets of people living in the wilderness. Searching for gold is kind of back in the day-to-day play, and people are heading north. This young girl, whose parents had taken off to go and search for gold themselves, is taken in by this man who she later finds out is not at all who she thinks he is. So she goes on the run from him in search of her parents. She has this amazing voice. We have been calling her a female Huckleberry Finn. It’s just that kind of a story and a narration where you just fall in love with her immediately. You want to keep reading and re-reading."
News
“What the Big 5’s Financial Reports Reveal About the State of Traditional Book Publishing” by Thad McIlroy at BookBusiness - August 5, 2016
“Publishing in the Pacific Northwest: Amazon Becomes a Publishing Force” by Anisse Gross at BookBusiness - November 18, 2016
“Amazon in Talks with Simon & Schuster - Acquisition?” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - July 15, 2016
“Amazon’s Next Frontier: Live Sports?” at WSJ Free For All Podcast with Jason Gay
“Amazon has big plans to expand its online tickets business” by Jason Del Rey at ReCode - November 22, 2016
“ How Jeff Bezos Used ‘The New York Times’ Expose to Make Amazon Better” by Justin Bariso at Inc - November 16, 2016
Tech Tip
“Control Neato’s robot vacuum with Amazon Alexa voice commands” by Sean Buckley at Engadget - November 22, 2016
Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet with improved keyboard entry - Black Friday sale price is $30 off at $60.
Interview with Seira Wilson
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling and Newt Scamander (Kindle pre-order, to be delivered on March 14, 2017)
Amazon editors’ picks for Best Books of 2016
The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
“Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for ‘The Underground Railroad’” by Alexandra Alter at The New York Times - November 17, 2016
The Wolf Road: A Novel by Beth Lewis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
The Nix: A Novel by Nathan Hill
Pumpkin Flowers: A Soldier’s Story by Matti Friedman
Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef by Leonardo Lucarelli
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis - available for pre-order with delivery on December 6, 2016
Comment
From Mark in Oslo: “Man hacks Alexa into singing fish robot, terror ensues” at The Verge - November 4, 2016
Next Week’s Guest
Cynthia Manson, New York literary agent
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Deputy Editor, Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
Interview starts at 16:02 and ends at 40:51
"I think it’s become very clear that there’s going to be a devoted subset of people who do read on eReaders, and there’s going to be a lot more reading on phones."
News
“Amazon App for iPhone Now Has X-Ray Vision to See Inside Your Packages” by Andy Orin at Lifehacker - November 16, 2016
“Alexa, What Are Your Deals?” - Amazon press release on November 18, 2016
The Grand Tour one-day deal on Amazon Prime - November 18, 2018.
“Amazon Starts Selling Certified Refurbished Kindle e-Readers” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - November 15, 2016
Certified Refurbished items at Amazon.com
“Amazon looks to clean house—literally” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - November 7, 2016
“Jeff Bezos Invests Billions to Make Amazon a Top E-Commerce Player in India” by Newley Purnell at The Wall Street Journal - November 18, 2016
“Amazon is going to sell cars online” by Eugene Kim at Business Insider - November 18, 2016
New Amazon Prime TV commercial featuring a priest and an imam
“Amazon TV ad features imam and vicar exchanging gifts” by Mark Sweney at The Guardian - November 15, 2016
“Jeff Bezos tweets his love for touching Amazon ad showing friendship between priest and imam” by Kurt Schlosser at GeekWire - November 17, 2016
Tech Tip
Two mistakes to avoid with Amazon Prime Fresh
Interview with Laura Hazard Owen
Nieman Foundation at Harvard
Nieman Journalism Lab
The Nieman Fellowships
Amazon Prime Reading
Six months free of digital access to The Washington Post for Amazon Prime members
New York Times podcasts
New York Times The Daily 360 virtual reality news clips
VR experience of solitary confinement by The Guardian
I’ll Be Right Back Laura Hazard Owen’s parenting newsletter
Publishing Trends
“Why We Are Buying PaidContent” by Om Malik - February 8, 2012
Om Malik on Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech - November 8, 2015
Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids by Nicholson Baker
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
Content
Amazon editors pick The Best Books of 2016
“Amazon rolls out Rapids, a chat style reading app for kids” by Sarah Buhr at Techcrunch - November 2, 1016
Amazon Rapids
Next Week’s Guest
Seira Wilson, senior books editor at Amazon.com
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Captain of Sea Dragon, Author of Loss at Sea: A Solo Circumnavigation
Interview starts at 13:19 and ends at 36:18
"It’s less difficult than it will seem at times. There will be hard points, but as long as you can power through those or endure through those, you just have to keep going."
News
“Donald Trump threatens Amazon as payback for Washington Post articles he doesn’t like” by Matthew Yglesias at Vox - May 13, 2016
“The Donald, documented: The Washington Post open-sources much of its Trump reporting” by Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab - August 30, 2016
Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher
“Amazon’s Stock May Be Suffering from the Trump Effect” by Jaewon Kang at The Street - November 10, 2016
“Amazon Announces Black Friday Deals on Echo, Fire Tablets, Kindle Paperwhite and Fire TV Stick” by David Carnoy at CNET - November 10, 2016
“Amazon to Reimburse Customers for In-App Purchases by Kids, Judge Says” by the Associated Press at The Wall Street Journal - November 10, 2016 (Behind paywall; try copying the headline and pasting it into a Google search to see full story.)
Interview with Eric Loss
Pangaea Exploration
Sea Dragon
The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Loss at Sea: A Solo Circumnavigation by Eric Loss
Sweetland: A Novel by Michael Crummey
Content
“Amazon Prime Reading Comes to the US Kindle App” at MacStories - November 9, 2016
Next Week’s Guest
Laura Hazard Owen, deputy editor at Nieman Lab
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Executive Team at Earplay
Interview starts at 10:28 and ends at 44:37
Left to right: Dave Grossman, Chief Creative Officer; Bruno Batarelo, Chief Technology Officer; and Jonathan Myers, Chief Executive Officer
News
Charlie Rose interview of Jeff Bezos (video) - October 27, 2016
Interview with Jonathan Myers
Earplay site
Western Dramatic Literature: A Micro-Anthology by Jonathan Myers & Jennifer Bean
Codename Cygnus
Blackstone audiobooks
Audible
Codename Cygnus Kickstarter campaign
"Virtual Worlds Invite Visitors Into the Story" by Chris Suellentrop at The New York Times - November 23, 2014
“Earplay: An Interactive, Audio-Only Storyteller, Made Even Better by Alexa” by Zoey Collier at Amazon’s developer site - November 3, 2016
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Author of The Jekyll Revelation
published by Amazon Publishing’s 47North Imprint
Interview starts at 10:00 and ends at 43:22
"I used to joke around that I could walk up to a table at any bookstore, and any book that wasn’t published by the major houses—I could smell it a mile away. There was something wrong about the typography. The cover was somehow cheap looking. I didn’t feel quite right. The margins weren’t right when you looked at the text inside, that sort of thing. They have corrected that now. And The Jekyll Revelation, which they just recently sent me a box of is an absolutely beautiful book that I am proud to put on my shelves. The cover art is spectacular. It wraps around from the front all the way to the back. It’s indistinguishable from anybody else’s books. In fact, in many ways its better."
News
Earplay skill on Alexa
“Earplay: Alexa Hosts a Transformative New Way to Tell Stories” by Len Edgerly at Medium - October 28, 2016
Earplay website
Eastgate Systems, creator of the Storyspace hypertext tool
Tech Tip
Prime Photos
Interview with Robert Masello
The Jekyll Revelation by Robert Masello
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
“Invictus” by William Ernest Henley
The Romanov Cross: A Novel by Robert Masello
The Medusa Amulet: A Novel of Suspense and Adventure by Robert Masello
Blood and Ice by Robert Masello
Content
New York Times 2016 Bestseller List at the Kindle Store
Next Week’s Guest
Jonathan Myers, co-founder and chief executive officer of Earplay.
A tool for sharing Kindle Chronicles episodes: Overcast.fm
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Bufo Calvin is the creator of the I Love My Kindle blog and The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip
Interview starts at 9:49 and ends at 36:45
"If you want to watch 'Devil Girl from Mars' you can go and watch it on this site. What’s happening so far is that I’m having a great time with it. I’m adding stuff to it. Virtually no one else ever goes there. I kind of feel like I’m up in my attic, and I put all these things on the wall and that’s great and I’m sort of obsessed with the idea of that. But nobody is ever coming up the ladder into the attic at this point."
News
“Amazon Japan introduces ‘Manga Model’ Kindle Paperwhite with eight times more storage” at The Verge - October 18, 2016
Amazon press release in Japanese announcing “Manga Model” Kindle Paperwhite - October 18, 2016
Kindle Paperwhite
"Amazon Music Unlimited” at The Lefsetz Newsletter - October 10, 2016
“Music Streaming Showdown: Amazon Music Unlimited vs. Spotify” by Alex Fitzpatrick at Time - October 18, 2016
“Apple lawsuit says 90 percent of ‘official’ chargers sold on Amazon are fake” by James Vincent at The Verge - October 20, 2016
“Amazon could be a lot bigger than we think” by Elizabeth Weise at USA Today - October 20, 2016
Interview with Bufo Calvin
I Love My Kindle blog
The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project
TMCGTT links mentioned: H. P. Lovecraft, Devil Girl from Mars, Night of the Living Dead directed by George Romero, Piers Anthony,
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, Strange Worlds comic debut on November 1, 1950, Batman radio show on September 5, 1950,
Amazon Prime Reading
Kindle Unlimited
One Murder More by Kris Calvin
Content
Ken Gunther’s list of free eBook sources:
www.freebooksy.com has an amazing collection of free books. I am on their mailing list and every day get an email with links to free books available from Amazon. You can filter your list and only get notified about books available in your favorite genres (science fiction, legal thriller, etc)
www.bookbub.com - every day I get an email from the folks at Bookbub with a list of books available for free, 99 cents and $1.99.
The above sites apparently carefully monitor amazon.com and when Amazon is having a free book promotion I get notified by email.
I also use ebook.bike - This site used to be called TUEBL.ca which is an acronym for The Ultimate E-Book Library. You need to go to the web site and can search for the title or author you are interested in. You can download the books as Epub or text files and then use a tool like Calibre to convert them to azw files for the Kindle. You need to click on the download link and then "Download Epub" or "Download Text" to select the format you want. There are lots of other links on ebook.bike, I stay away from them.
Calibre
Amazon’s new “100 books for a lifetime of eating and drinking"
Next Week’s Guest:
Robert Masello, author of The Jekyll Revelation
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EVP and Publisher, Open Road Integrated Media
Interview starts at 15:33 and ends at 43:28
"We are not an agency publisher. So we don’t have any control over the consumer price. We set the digital list price, and we don’t have control over the consumer price. And Amazon is free to discount it to whatever price they want. And I would also point out that we are very aggressive in the number of and the frequency of which we promote our books in price promotions."
News
“Amazon Music Unlimited versus Prime Music: What’s the Difference?” by Jeff Gamet at The Mac Observer - October 12, 2016
Amazon press release on Music Unlimited service - October 12, 2016
“Amazon to Expand Grocery Business With New Convenience Stores” by Greg Bensinger and Laura Stevens at The Wall Street Journal - October 12, 2016
“If Amazon is really opening brick-and-mortar grocery stores, it’s a big deal” by Sarah Halzack at The Washington Post - October 11, 2016
Wall Street Journal Tech News Briefing podcast - October 13, 2016
Tech Tip
“New! Collection management comes to MYCD (Manage Your Content and Devices)” by Bufo Calvin at I Love My Kindle - October 13, 2016
Interview with Tina Pohlman
Open Road Integrated Media
The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals (Book 1), Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (Book 2), and The Garden of the Gods (Book 3)
The Durrells in Corfu Season 1 on PBS Masterpiece
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Click here to sign up for the Open Road Early Bird Books email list
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson with Afterword by David Foster Wallace
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Content
“PBS’s ‘Durells in Corfu’ gets its glow from the Greek Island” by Matthew Gilbert at The Boston Globe - October 13, 2016
“‘The Durrells in Corfu’ Review: An Island of Charm” by John Anderson at The Wall Street Journal - October 13, 2016
Next Week’s Guest
Bufo Calvin, creator of the I Love My Kindle blog
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Author of Find Your Own Voice
Interview starts at 16:18 and ends at 42:39
"I don’t think books are going to evolve, because I think other things are there to take that slack up. And I think that’s okay. The one thing I can tell you is I have a lot of print books in my life, even though I read mostly digital now. Every time I have a print book I always want to be clicking a link or something. I always want to be grabbing some text and dropping it into Evernote. There are a lot of moments where the technology of paper is frustrating to me. And yet, I write on paper every day. I have a paper notebook beside me at all times every day, and I like getting a physical book. I have the new David Eggers, and it’s beautiful. It looks beautiful. It smells nice, and there’s nothing like that. I don’t know. I don’t think the future of books is as cool as we thought it might be. There’s no jet pack."
News
Up to $50 off Kindle eReaders - limited time offer for Prime members
“Amazon Prime Reading gives members even more e-books” by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET - October 5, 2016
“Amazon introduces Prime Reading…and hits a sweet spot for many customers” by Bufo Calvin at I Love My Kindle
“Amazon’s Alexa group is on a massive hiring spree” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - October 1, 2016
Tech Tip
IFTTT recipes for Amazon Alexa
Interview with Chris Brogan
Find Your Writing Voice: How to write more like your amazing self, for books, blog posts, and email by Chris Brogan
Essential Zen Habits by Leo Babauta
Trust Agents and The Impact Equation, by Chris Brogan and Julian Smith
Canva free book covers
Pressbooks
The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth: Entrepreneurship for Weirdos, Misfits, and Word Dominators by Chris Brogan (2014)
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
How to Live a Good Life by Jonathan Fields
The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know by Shawn Coyne with introduction by Steven Pressfield
Assassin’s Creed videogames
Heroes of the Frontier by David Eggers
Next Week’s Guest
Tina Pohlman, executive vice president and publisher at Open Road Integrated Media, which is releasing The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell on October 11, 2016
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Senior Writer and Features Editor at Publishers Weekly
Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05
"The fact that we have rapidly declining eBook sales from major publishers and that we see for two years running now in the Pew surveys that eBook readership is not growing is stunning, considering the vast offerings that are now available in digital format. I just hope that the publishers haven’t, if not killed then wounded their golden reader, which is a reader that will read on any device, and certainly the data show they will read print and eBooks, toggle from one to the other. They’ll buy more books, they’ll check out more books. I think as reading becomes more pressured by other media, to hold back your power readers like that can’t be considered a wise strategy any more."
News
Amazon introduces all-new Fire TV Stick (press release) - September 28, 2016
“Amazon’s Fire TV Stick gets a smart upgrade to work with Alexa” by Amelia Heathman at Wired - September 29, 2016
All-new Fire TV stick at Amazon.com
Fire TV
Variety review of Woody Allen’s Amazon comedy “Crisis in Six Scenes” - September 29, 2016.
“Crisis in Six Scenes” at Amazon Prime instant video
“Introducing the Alexa Prize” (press release) September 29, 2016
Twitch Prime Guide
Tech Tip
All-new Fire HD 8
Interview with Andrew Richard Albanese
“Print or Digital, It’s Reading That Matters” by Andrew Richard Albanese at Publishers Weekly - September 16, 2016
“Book Reading 2016” Pew Research Center study - September 1, 2016
Author Earnings
Wattpad
The Frankfurt Book Fair October 1-23, 2016
Next Week’s Guest
Chris Brogan, author of Finding Your Writing Voice: How to write more like your amazing self, for books, blog posts, and email
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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
Interview starts at 14:34 and ends at 44:17
"It’ll happen in the cloud, and it will get propagated out to eight, 10, 15, 20 million households that will have the more rudimentary voice enabled [Alexa device], and then suddenly it will become like magic. Suddenly that device, that Trojan horse that Amazon has gotten into your home, will suddenly unleash itself and become a truly intelligent agent. Is that a year away? At least, but we’re going to start having the feeling that there’s a real person there pretty soon. There are already people who feel that way today."
News
“Print or Digital, It’s Reading that Matters” by Andrew Richard Albanese at Publishers Weekly - September 16, 2016
BookRiot podcast Episode 174 - September 12, 2016
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
“Amazon isn’t just online—it’s opening a real bookstore in Dedham” by Curt Woodward at The Boston Globe - September 19, 2016
“Amazon Says It Puts Customers First. But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn’t” by Julia Angwin and Surya Mattu at ProPublica - September 20, 2016
Amazon statement related to ProPublica story and statement issued after the story was published
The New Yorker Radio Hour Episode 48 (Jeff Bezos reference at 11:40)
Transparent on Amazon Video
Kindle for Kids bundle
Interview with James McQuivey
“Quick Take: Amazon Extends Its Lead By Taking Alexa Intelligent Agent Global” at Forrester - September 14, 2016
“Print or Digital, It’s Reading That Matters” By Andrew Richard Albanese at Publishers Weekly - September 16, 2016
All-New Echo Dot (2nd Generation)
Amazon Echo
“I’ve Got a Rant in Me” - Episode 174 of the BookRiot podcast
Content
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World by Deirdre N. McCloskey
Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World by Deirdre N. McCloskey
Blog Nation list of book review blogs
Next Week’s Guest
Andrew Richard Albanese, author of “Print or Digital, It’s Reading that Matters” at Publishers Weekly
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Rowing medalist, challenged reader trying a Kindle
Interview starts at 14:43 and ends at 42:48
I remember walking home from third grade and throwing a workbook away, it was a book that I had made out of paper and was keeping notes in. I threw it in the bushes, because my teacher said, “You’re supposed to take this home and get your parents to sign off on your assignments, that you’ve done them all.” I threw it away, and I said I’d lost it. because I didn’t want to show that I’d not done the reading, because I hated it so much. I just didn’t like it. I can do the reading; I just don’t like it. And I still have that feeling today.
News
“Amazon Alexa, Echo, and the All-New Echo Dot Coming to the UK” - press release September 14, 2016
Amazon Echo - Wikipedia
“The Best thing about Amazon’s $50 Echo Dot? It’s available to all” by Devindra Hardawar at Engadget - September 14, 2016
“Brief: The Future of Voice Control Goes Far Beyond Dictation” by James McQuivey with David M. Cooperstein, Alexandra Hayes at Forrester Research - April 14, 2014
“Alexa—turn on my local Heart radio station” by Roy Martin at Radio Today Industry News
“Amazon Books opens in San Diego” by Jennifer Van Grove at The San Diego Union-Tribune - September 14, 2016
Kobo Aura One
“Amazon Prime tunes into Audible” by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET = September 13, 2016
Tech Tip
More specs on the next generation Fire HD 8 tablet
Interview with John Biglow
Craftsbury Sculling Center
Mind over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing by Craig Lambert (published in September, 1999)
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Head of the Charles Regatta
The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal by David Halberstam
My Brilliant Friend by Elana Ferrante
FULL audio books for everyone channel at YouTube
Kindle Oasis
OpenDyslexic font
Kindle ($80) at Amazon.com
My interview with Temple Grandin in TKC 196 - April 30, 2012
Video - Part 1
Video - Part 2
Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day by Craig Lambert
Craig Lambert on TKC 354 - May 2015
Comments
Kindle Paperwhite handmade in India at Snapdeal, Flipkart and Shopclues
Kindle Oasis skins at DecalGirl
Next Week’s Guest:
James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research
Outro
“Dock Talk: The Essence of Sculling” - my 360 YouTube video from Craftsbury Sculling Center
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Author of Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids
Interview starts at 8:44 and ends at 41:26
The thing that really hit me was, this is compulsory. None of these kids have a choice. Whatever the cutoff age is, they have a choice, but all of those earlier years they cannot just decide, “I don’t want to go to school today” unless they had a very understanding set of parents or something. They have to go. And they have to get up really early. Often they’re on a bus for an hour, and then all day long they’re being told what to do. And some of what they’re learning, especially in elementary school, is very valuable—reading, for instance, and arithmetic—really, really valuable things to know on this planet. Other things are often really a waste of time. That feeling of its being both an incredibly long day and a day in which a lot of it feels kind of futile—it’s kind of a terrifying combination when you look at it from the kid’s point of view.
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News
Amazon announces an all-new Fire HD 8 for $90 with longer battery life, more storage, faster performance and Alexa
Fire HD 8 press release - September 8, 2016
Interview with Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker’s author page at Amazon.com
Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids by Nicholson Baker
Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
Minecraft
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Senior Editor, Amazon.com Books
Interview starts at 17:14 and ends at 44:11
"I’ve heard it said that summer’s a great time for summer reading, but it’s also a great time to sit down with that one nonfiction book that you want to take the time to read. Maybe it’s transitioning a little bit, but fall is definitely the big time to sell books. That’s when everybody gears up and starts scheduling their huge books."
News
“Now Arriving on the New York Subway: Free E-Books, Timed for Your Commute” by James Barron at The New York Times - August 28, 2016
“Book Reading 2016” report by Pew Research Center - September 1, 2016
“No, the Internet Has Not Killed the Printed Book. Most People Still Prefer Them.” by Daniel Victor at The New York Times - September 2, 2016
“Pew: Print Books Still More Popular Than EBooks and Audiobooks” by Daniel Berkowitz at Digital Book World - September 1, 2016
“Visiting Wroclaw Amazon. Warehouse, work and work culture” by Robert Drozd - September 1, 2016
Kobo Aura One
“New Omate Rise smartwatch comes with Amazon Alexa” by Edgar Cervantes at Android Authority - September 1, 2016
Omate Rise Smartwatch with Alexa at Indiegogo
Tech Tip
Moko Case for Kindle Oasis - $12.99
WizFun Case for Kindle Oasis - $9.99
Interview with Chris Schluep
Amazon Author Pages for Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, and China Miéville
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson
Flying Spaghetti Monster Car Emblem
Seconds: A Graphic Novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Everything I Never Told You: A Novel by Celeste Ng
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen - available for pre-order with delivery September 27, 2016
The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer - available for pre-order with delivery November 8, 2016
Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks - available for pre-order with delivery October 4, 2016
A Torch Against the Night and An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Here I Am: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer - available for pre-order with delivery September 6, 2016
Moonglow: A Novel by Michael Chabon - available for pre-order with delivery November 22, 2016
The Whistler by John Grisham - available for pre-order with delivery October 25, 2016
Bloom County Episode XI: A New Hope by Berkeley Breathed - available for pre-order with delivery September 13, 2016
Razor Girl: A Novel by Carl Hiaasen - available for pre-order with delivery September 6, 2016
Crooked Kingdom: A Sequel to Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - available for pre-order with delivery September 27, 2016
Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
Small Great Things: A Novel by Jodi Picoult - available for pre-order with delivery October 11, 2016
Omnivoracious, The Amazon Book Review
Next Week’s Guest
Nicholson Baker, author of Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids
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Publisher of Open Letter Books
Interview starts at 15:15 and ends at 43:30
Amazon[Crossing] is filling in some of these gaps, because we haven’t for a long time seen the normal mystery book that someone picks up in Spain and reads when they go on their vacation. That’s never been translated into English, because it didn’t seem like it would make a ton of money for one of the big presses, and the small presses are looking for something that’s more patently literary. Amazon’s taken up a lot of those kind of books, which is really fascinating and fills in a wide range of what the aesthetic is in these different countries.
News
“Amazon plans to open a Chicago bookstore in Lakeview” by Lauren Zumbach at The Chicago Tribune - August 25, 2016
Kindle Reading Fund
Worldreader.org
Amazon Worldreader video at YouTube - August 24, 2016
“Denver Public Library is Lending Wifi Hotspots” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - August 20, 2016
“Amazon Starts Car Research and Review Site” at Associated Press - August 25, 2016
Amazon press release on Amazon Vehicles - August 25, 2016
Amazon jobs listing for Sr. Product Mgr, US Books
Interview with Chad Post
Open Letter Books, the University of Rochester’s nonprofit, literary translation press
Amazon author page for Julio Cortazar
Hopscotch: A Novel by Julio Cortazar
Dalkey Archive Press
Amazon author page for Raymond Queneau
Quail Ridge Books
Rage by Zygmunt Miloszewski
The Complete Review and The Literary Saloon run by Michael Orthofer
The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction by M. A. Orthofer
Scott Esposito’s blog, Conversational Reading
2016 Best Translated Book Awards sponsored by the Amazon Literary Partnership
AmazonCrossing books
Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah, translated by Sora Kim-Russell
Hugo House, a place for writers
Words Without Borders
The Lannan Foundation
New Books by Open Letter:
Gesell Dome by Guillermo Saccomanno
A Greater Music by Bae Suah (to be released October 11, 2016)
Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lucio Cardoso (to be released December 13, 2016)
Content
“How to Read 50 Books a Year, in 7 Easy Steps” by Stephen Altrogge at Zapier - August 23, 2016
Next Week’s Guest
Chris Schluep, senior editor at Amazon Books
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BookRiot contributor who writes about romance novels
Interview starts at 10:59 and ends at 42:21
We’re sort of worshipping at the temple of love, the same way that religion can help us make sense of human experience and help us to feel there's good in the world—there's a structure that is bending towards the good. Romance can impart that feeling and help you feel like you're participating in the goodness of the fabric of the world. And I think that’s a real draw.
News
“Mysterious ‘Project X’ points to Amazon drive-up grocery store in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood” by Nat Levy and Todd Bishop at GeekWire - August 19, 2016.
Amazon Fresh
“Reinventing the Work-Life Ratio for Tech Talent” event scheduled by Amazon in Seattle for August 25.
“Amazon experiments with tech teams consisting entirely of part-time employees, with full benefits” by Monica Nickelsburg at GeekWire - August 17, 2016
“Amazon Plans to Produce Virtual Reality Originals, Job Offer Reveals” by Janko Roettgers at Variety - August 18, 2016
Amazon Studios job listing for VR Experience Development Executive
Next-generation Gear VR headset at Samsung
Tech Tip
An item from Steve in Hawaii related to Kindle Owners Lending Library
Interview with Jessica Tripler
“Why Romance Readers Love Digital Books” by Jessica Tripler at BookRiot - August 11, 2016
Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James
Romance Writers of America
A Natural History of the Romance Novel by Pamela Regis
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Novels by Molly O'Keefe
The Bechdel Test
Novels by Courtney Milan
“Romancing the Data” presentation by AuthorEarnings analyst Data Guy at Romance Writers of America - July 15, 2016
Happily Ever After: the Romance Story in Popular Culture by Catherine M. Roach
Novels by Nora Roberts
Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
Novels by Beverly Jenkins
Novels by Farrah Rochon
Content
Goodreads All Time Favorite Romance Novels
Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James
Next Week’s Guest
Chad Post, head of the University of Rochester’s Open Letter press and a champion of literature in translation.
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VP & Executive Editor, HarperCollins Publishers Interview starts at 18:58 and ends at 43:28 There are a lot of very serious readers at Amazon, and honestly I think that that’s something that is not understood. They don’t all work on the editorial team vetting books for Best of the Month, but we did and I assume they still are using a lot of readers from the rest of the company who are not technically on the editorial team but who are passionate about reading and who read a lot. There were some really wonderful readers and reviewers that we cherry-picked from around the company. Book love is very much alive at Amazon. News Om Malik on This Week in Tech - August 7, 2016 Wal-Mart press release on purchase of Jet.com - August 8, 2016 Om Malik’s web site “The best reason for reading? Book lovers live longer, scientists say” by Amy Ellis Nutt at The Washington Post - August 9, 2016 Tech Tip Kindle Owners’ Lending Library Kindle Unlimited Interview with Sara Nelson “Sara Nelson Heading to HarperCollins” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - June 28, 2016 HarperCollins press release announcing Sara Nelson’s hiring - June 28, 2016 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance Commonwealth: A Novel by Ann Patchet - available for pre-order with delivery September 13, 2016 Moonglow: A Novel by Michael Chabon - available for pre-order with delivery November 22, 2016 Behold the Dreamers: A Novel by Imbolo MBUE - available for pre-order with delivery August 23, 2013 Content The Phil Hendrie Show YouTube video of Phil Hendrie recording his podcast - February 10, 2015 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Next Week’s Guest Jessica Tripler, author of “Why Romance Readers Love Digital Books” at BookRiot - August 11, 2011 Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Senior Editor, AmazonCrossing
Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 38:04
[Ayse Kulin] is one of many distinguished voices from diverse cultures that we’ve had the pleasure of publishing, and I think she’s actually a really great example of what it is that we’re trying to do here at AmazonCrossing
News
“Amazon Resumes Selling Amazon’s Gadgets Four Years After Rift” by Shannon Pettypiece at Bloomberg - August 4, 2016
“Amazon to test drone delivery in partnership with UK government” by Nicky Woolf and Samuel Gibbs at The Guardian - July 25, 2016
Dromida Kodo drone
Amazon Prime Air (YouTube video) - December 1, 2013
“Amazon’s ‘Prime Air’ Cargo Plane is Ready to Deliver Your Packages” at NBC - August 5, 2016
“See Amazon’s Massive New ‘Prime Air’ Cargo Jet Plane” at Time - August 5, 2016
“Amazon’s latest weapon in the e-commerce wars: Its own air force” by Sarah Halzack at The Washington Post - August 5, 2016
Holy Stone RC dump truck at Amazon.com
Tech Tips
Kindle Unlimited audiobooks
“7 Ways to Take Full Advantage of Your Kindle” by Joel Lee at MakeUseOf.com - August 4, 2016
Interview with Gabriella Page-Fort
“How Amazon came to dominate fiction in translation” by Alison Flood at The Guardian - December 9, 2015
Love in Exile by Ayse Kulin, translated into English by Kenneth Dakan
Other books translated from Turkish into English by Kenneth Dakan
Last Train to Istanbul: A Novel by Ayse Kulin, translated into English by John W. Baker
Books by Louise Erdrich
Escape by Perihan Magden, translated by Kenneth Dakan
Ali and Ramazan by Perihan Magden, translated by Ruth Whitehouse
Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul by Ayse Kulin, translated into English by Kenneth Dakan
Content
Rage by Zygmunt Miloszewski, translated into English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and available for free with a Kindle Unlimited subscription
Vellum - a Mac app for formatting eBooks
“Vellum Review: App offers a sleeker way to build ebooks” by Serenity Caldwell at Macworld - January 8, 2014
“Last Call for Summer Reading: 9 Books You’ll Kick Yourself for Not Picking Up” by Adrian Liang at Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog - July 28, 2016
Next Week’s Guest
Sara Nelson, Amazon’s editorial director who last month moved to HarperCollins as vice president, executive editor and special advisor to the publisher.
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Founder and CEO of Amazon.com Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 Only when I read a truly great novel do I feel that I have lived an alternate life that might actually teach me some lessons, so that I don’t have to learn them myself. My favorite book is Remains of the Day. When I read Remains of the Day I feel like I understand extreme life regret in a way that I hopefully will never experience in my own life—I don’t want to. You get to live somebody else’s life, and it’s very hard to get that emotional closeness, I think, from any other media type, still. So I think there is a place for great books and will continue to be, hopefully forever. My interview with Jeff Bezos on July 26, 2016 at Amazon.com in Seattle Kindle Kindle Oasis Kindle Direct Publishing Kindle Unlimited Amazon Books Seattle store information page My interview with Jane Friedman, chairman of Open Road Media - June 24, 2016 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Samsung Gear 360 camera My interview with Donald Katz, founder and CEO of Audible - October 24, 2014 Jeff Bezos on The Kindle Chronicles 4th anniversary show - July 26, 2012 Other Links Amazon free-banana stand Amazon Whispercast Amazon Books store in Seattle Next Week’s Guest Gabriella Page-Fort, content acquisitions manager at AmazonCrossing. She will relay answers to my emailed questions from Turkish novelist Ayse Kulin, author of Love in Exile. Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Founder and CEO of the Idea Logical Company Interview starts at 8:05 and ends at 34:24 I think it’s possible that we’re going to wake up and say we just had another black-swan event, which is that all of the big authors that have been developed over the last five years, a big share of them are Amazon authors, because they had the runway to do that, and publishers didn’t. News
“Bezos Tops Buffet as World’s Third-Richest on Amazon Rise” by Tom Metcalf at Bloomberg - July 21, 2016 Mark Mahaney on Amazon earnings (video) at Bloomberg - July 20, 2016 Amazon earnings webcast details for July 28, 2016 at 5:30 pm ET Jeff Bezos in next Star Trek movie Tech Tip Using Time to Read on Your Kindle at The Story Interview with Mike Shatzkin
The Shatzkin Files blog Author Earnings “These Charts Show Pokémon Go’s Ridiculous Growth” by Anne VanderMey at Fortune - July 21, 2016 Pokémon Go home page Leonard Shatzkin obituary - American Booksellers Association May 20, 2002 Content Kindle Singles Classics press release - July 19, 2016 “Amazon is bringing some of the best non-fiction classics to Kindle” by Nick Statt at The Verge - July 19, 2016 Julian Fellows's recommendations for Downton Abbey lovers Comments
Overdrive apps for Android and iOS Tom Semple’s LG Tone Infinim HBS-900 Wireless Stereo Headset - $71.86 at Amazon.com Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.
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Director of Marketing and Communication at OverDrive, Inc.
Interview starts at 15:18 and ends at 44:22
I’m happy to report that all of the Big Five publishers have made their titles available for library lending in eBook format. They’ve all been already in for their audiobook format. It's been a couple of years now that they’ve made their decision to add their titles on the front list, mid-list and back list available to libraries. So that’s great news for readers. You’ll see all the New York Times bestsellers and all the different popular lists of titles that you should be able to find in your library.
News
“Amazon’s Prime Day is the Biggest Day Ever” - Amazon press release July 13, 2016
“Behind the Scenes of Prime Day 2016” (video)
Holy Stone RC Dump Truck Remote Control Car for my grandson Jake
“The 2016 Kindle is Complete Crap as an Accessible eReader” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - July 10, 2016
"The ‘Big Change’ era in trade book publishing ended about four years ago” by Mike Shatzkin at The Shatzkin Files - July 11, 2016
Tech Tip
Denver Public Library
Interview with David Burleigh
OverDrive web site
Big Library Read
A Murder in Time: A Novel (Kendra Donovan Mysteries) by Julie McElwain
Next Week’s Guest
Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of the Idea Logical Company and author of a recent, highly informative blog post titled “The ‘Big Change’ era in trade book publishing ended about four years ago."
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Director, Product Management - Amazon Kindle
Interview starts at 18:09 and ends at 43:26
The biggest technical challenge I would say is creating a seamless Page Flip reading experience across all of our platforms. Page Flip is available on eReaders, on Fire tablets, as well as the Kindle app for iOS and Android. Across those different experiences, we wanted to make sure that things like the performance, things like the fluidity, how it worked and how it behaved—all of those things were both tailored for the experience on the platform that it’s on, but it also felt natural, it felt simple, and it felt automatic.
News
The new $80 Kindle at Amazon.com
The Kindle Oasis
“Alexa, What are Your Prime Day Deals” (press release)
Amazon Prime Day is July 12, starting at midnight PT!
Meghan’s profile at amazon.jobs
“Amazon Prime Day should be much bigger this year than it was last year” by Tonya Garcia at MarketWatch - July 8, 2016
Tech Tip
The new Export Notes feature
Page Flip
Interview with Mike Torres
Amazon’s leadership principles
Word Wise on Kindle
Mike Torres’s Refocuser blog
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Todoist app
“Kindles Can Now Send Notes and Highlights Directly to Your Email” at The eBook Reader - July 3, 2016
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
Content
Rage by Zygmunt Miloszewski (A Kindle First selection from Amazon Publishing)
“Audible Makes Some Noise” w/ Andrew Albanese at Beyond the Book podcast - July 8, 2016
Audible Channels
Next Week’s Guest
David Burleigh, director of marketing at OverDrive
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My Father and Grandson Interview starts at 23:32 and ends at 44:30 News Amazon Inspire press release - June 27, 2016 “Amazon Unveils Online Education Service for Educators” by Natasha Singer at The New York Times - June 27, 2016 “Amazon Inspire Removes Some Content Over Copyright Issues” by Natasha Singer at The New York Times - June 29, 2016 “Good News at The Washington Post” by Christopher Payne at New York Magazine - June 28, 2016 Amazon Dash Buttons press release - June 28, 2016 Amazon Prime Day - July 12, 2016 Tech Tip Page Flip, the reimagined Kindle navigation tool Interview with my father and my grandson Click here to order a Kindle cover with a photo The Boxcar Children Mysteries by Gertrude Chandler Warner – various prices for Kindle Books by Will James Two Little Savages by Ernest Thompson Seton Minecraft Books by Horatio Alger Next Week’s Guest Mike Torres, Amazon’s director of product management for the Kindle, who will talk about Page Flip. Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Co-Founder, Chairman and Executive Publisher of Open Road Integrated Media Interview starts at 15:17 and ends at 44:11 I do not think that the world of print survived and now will thrive at the expense of eBooks. I think eBooks will coexist with print, which I think is the best of all possible worlds. And I think that at the right price the revenue that one can receive from eBooks will be pretty substantial. News “Smaller, lighter $80 Kindle unveiled with rounder edges—plus new Export Notes software update” by Len Edgerly at TeleRead - June 22, 2016 All-New Kindle in white or black with or without special offers (the link includes my Amazon Associates code and will provide a commission to support the podcast if you use it—thanks!) “Apple E-book Refunds to Begin June 21” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - June 20, 2016 “Himalayan delivery by bike for Amazon man” at Hemmel Today - June 17, 2016 Tech Tip What’s Your Kindle Worth? Interview with Jane Friedman “Slavin Named CEO of Open Road; Friedman Becomes Chairman” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - May 31, 2016 Open Road press release announcing new CEO - May 31, 2016 Alan Sillitoe’s books at Open Road Pearl Buck’s books at Open Road Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead Goerge Pat Conroy books at Open Road Homeland on Prime Instant Video The Affair (Showtime) Open Road’s The Lineup site Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Director of Business Development at BookBub Interview starts at 5:64 and ends at 16:18 BookBub definitely got off the ground with self-published authors. They’re often the first people in the industry to experiment with a new marketing channel, and they were much more comfortable discounting their books four years ago than a lot of traditional publishers were. Over the course of the past four years we’ve started working with all the major publishers, and we’ve gotten to the point where it’s fifty-fifty. We’ve actually maintained that breakdown for a while now, and we’re very comfortable with it. News “Amazon’s Third Bookstore Will Be in Portland” by Leena Rao at Fortune - June 15, 2016 Interviews at BookExpo America Katie Donelan, Director of Business Development at BookBub (5:64 to 16:18) “Introducing BookBub New Release Alerts” at BookBub blog - January 4, 2016 BookGorilla David Hemphill, publisher of Coralstone Press (16:54 to 24:26) The Good Dog by Todd Kessler, illustrated by Jennifer Gray Olsen Blue’s Clues on Nikolodeon (Amazon Prime Instant Video) Christina York, co-founder and CEO of Spellbound (24:46 to 29:26) “Spellbound uses augmented reality to turn children’s books into digital pop-up books” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - May 12, 2016 Scott Dikkers, founder of The Onion (29:27 to 39:53) Trump’s America: The Complete Loser’s Guide by Scott Dikkers - available in Kindle, paperback, and audio formats The Comedy Insider Podcast, a serious conversation about comedy - hosted by Scott Dikkers (See Episode 13 for the Andy Borowitz interview) Micro Publishing Media Tech Tip “Kindle firmware v5.8.1: It’s all about dots and sharing” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - June 16, 2016 Content Buzz Books 2016 (free) “Five Curious Ways to Find New Books to Read” by Mihir Patkar at MakeUseOf - June 14, 2016 Next Week’s Guest Jane Friedman, chairman of Open Road Media Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Co-Founder and CEO of Shelfie.com Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 We needed to find a metaphor, an analogy for the playlist or the inbound link when it came to books. What we found is that bookshelves are an incredibly good signal. News 1999 Jeff Bezos speech at Association of American Publishers meeting (YouTube) “Watch Jeff Bezos Lay Out His Grand Vision for Amazon’s Future Dominance in This 1999 Video” by Jason del Rey at Recode - November 22, 2015 Tech Tip Software version 5.1.4 updates for Fire HD 8, Fire HD 10 and Fire “New Fire OS 5.1.4 Update Adds eBooks to SD Card and ‘On Deck’” at The eBook Reader - May 25, 2016 “Amazon Fire updates to Fire OS 5.1.4 - many changes?” by Paul St John Mackintosh at TeleRead - June 5, 2016 Interview with Peter Hudson Shelfie My interview with Peter Hudson in December, 2014 The Fireman and The Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill Shelfie by Bitlit Crunchbase listing “BitLit Helps You Get E-Book Versions of the Physical Books You Already Own” by Frederic Lardinois at TechCrunch - May 22, 2014 Content Daily Beast story on Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump by Harry Hurt III, described as “Trump’s most hated biographer” - June 7, 2015 Next Week’s Show: More from BookExpo America in Chicago Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
CEO of Tapas Media Interview starts at 19:22 and ends at 43:40 I believe that for publishing, even though Kindle is capturing a lot of the mobile market, I think there are still innovations to be made. In terms of marketplace players out there who have fundamentally thought about the whole thing from mobile specifically, I don’t think there’s a lot yet. News Walt Mossberg interviews Jeff Bezos at Recode’s Code Conference 2016 (full video and a separate audio link) - May 31, 2016 “Amazon’s $290 e-reader misfire: A hands-on review of the new Kindle Oasis” by Michael Hiltzik at The Los Angeles Times - May 31, 2016 Fire HD 10 tablet - now available in Silver Aluminum and 64 GB models Interview with Chang Kim Tapastic Tapas Media Crunchbase listing Tapas App on iOS and Android Candy Crush Clash of Clans Game of War Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Audio recorded at BookExpo America in Chicago and related links:
Jon Malinowski (2:00-4:25), president of The Combined Book Exhibit, creator of the Book Fair Buddy app on iOS and Android platforms.
Pubmatch.com
“Authorship in the Digital Age” panel moderated by Jon Fine (14:24-21:13), former Director of Author and Publishing Relations at Amazon
“At Chicago’s BEA-Lite: A Meaningful Discussion on Publishers and Authors” by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - May 13, 2016
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow (10:17-12:46)
Barbara Freethy (8:40-10:00)
- A. Konrath(12:55-13:57).
Scott Turow interview (21:24-31:02)
“BookExpo America panel: Digital Authorship” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - May 12, 2016
“Scott Turow: Amazon uses ‘unfair tactics’ in e-book market” by Shoshana Davis at CBS News - October 16, 2013
A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation’s Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food by Eve Turow
“Why Are Millennials So Obsessed With Food?” by Joe Pinsker at The Atlantic - August 14, 2015
Morgan Entrekin (34:15-41:40), president and publisher, Grove Atlantic
“Amazon: Business as Usual?” forum at New York Public Library in 2014 with Morgan Entrekin as one of the panelists (video)
6.Morgan Entrekin, president and publisher, Grove Atlantic
Donald J. Trump? (43:36 - 44:58)
Trump’s America: The Complete Loser’s Guide by Scott Dikers, founding editor of The Onion
Next Week’s Guest:
Chang Kim, CEO at Tapastic, creator of the Tapas app for iOS and Android
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Jeff Bezos: We need to take The Washington Post from being a great local paper, which was a very successful strategy for decades, and transform it into a great national and global paper. We have the capability to do that, and as we do that we’re going to change the revenue structure. We’ve historically made a relatively large amount of money per reader on a relatively small number of readers. We need instead to make a relatively small amount of money per reader on a much larger number of readers. If you are studying the news business, the Internet has been a disaster for traditional news companies for the most part, because it takes a lot of things away. There are a lot of anti-gifts the Internet brought to the traditional news business. But it does bring one huge gift. You have to maximize your usage of that new gift, which is that it provides almost free global distribution. We could have hundreds of millions of readers and make very little money and have an amazing institution. And I’m happy to fund that until we get there. Note: For this week’s show, I am bringing you extensive excerpts from a Jeff Bezos interview conducted by Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, on May 18, 2016 at an event named Transformers. I have interspersed the clips with my comments on the interview, which I thought was extremely well done and revealing. Here are some links to coverage of the interview. “‘Not an appropriate way for a presidential candidate to behave’: Bezos fires back at Donald Trump” by Paul Farhi at The Washington Post - May 18, 2016 Next Week Show Interviews and observations from Book Expo America in Chicago Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Accessibility Architect at Amazon’s Lab126 Interview starts at 9:45 and ends at 39:50 We continually evaluate ways we can make reading on the Kindle more enjoyable, more comfortable, more accessible. This led us to create the Bookerly font. This led us to include the open-source OpenDyslexic font. So we continue to evaluate and bring innovations to our customers. News “Amazon borrows from YouTube script, opens marketplace to video creators” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - May 10, 2016 “Google’s Answer to Amazon’s Echo is code-named ‘Chirp’ and is landing soon” by Marg Bergen at The Verge - May 11, 2016 “Forget Amazon’s Echo: Lexi lets you speak to Alexa through your phone” by MIX at TheNextWeb - May 6, 2016 “Move Over Lexi - Roger Puts Amazon Alexa in Your iPhone for Free” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - May 12, 2016 Free Roger app for iOS “Goodreads launches free e-book giveaway promotions for $119 fee” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - May 6, 2016 Tech Tip Audible’s new Send This Book feature Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Audible) - email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com if you’d like me to send you a free copy of this audiobook, using Audible’s new Send This Book Book Feature Interview with Peter Korn Amazon’s guide to VoiceView Kindle Paperwhite blind and visually impaired readers bundle My Coverage of VoiceView at TeleRead and The Kindle Chronicles - May 10, 2016 Content Trump’s America: The Complete Loser’s Guide by Scott Dikkers Next Week’s Show Interviews and observations from Book Expo America in Chicago My BEA Liveblog posts on Goodreads author tips and Rethinking the Standard Author Contract Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Author, Poet and Associate Editor of TeleRead Interview starts at 22:08 and ends at 43:10 This [Kindle Oasis] basically gives Amazon its BMW or its Mercedes Benz, which is a pretty powerful draw for the entire range. It has produced a very fine, high-end E Ink eBook reader which caters very well to really serious readers. News Amazon’s First Quarter earnings report - April 28, 2016 Motley Fool Money podcast on Amazon earnings - April 29, 2016 (Thanks to David Enzel for the link) "Amazon was profitable for four quarters in a row" by Jason Del Rey at re/code - April 28, 2016 “Jeff Bezos Sells $671 Million of Amazon Stock in Biggest Sale Ever” by Aaron Pressman at Forune.com - May 6, 2016 “Jeff Bezos to personally match up to $1M in donations to Mary’s Place homeless nonprofit” by Todd Bishop at GeekWire - May 2, 2016 “Mary’s Place receives $2 million thanks to matching donations from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos” by John Knicely at KIRO7 - May 4, 2016 Mary’s Place link for Amazon wish list “Video: Jeff Bezos at the White House promotes plan to hire 25,000 veterans and military spouses at Amazon” by Kurt Schlosser at GeekWire - May 5, 2016 Joining Forces web site Tech Tip How I am using Amazon Tap Interview with Paul St John Mackintosh Amazon Author’s Page and Facebook page Project Gutenberg
The Musical Box of Wonders by Paul St John Mackintosh (paperback only) published by H. Harksen Producitons
Following is the complete text of the poem recited by Paul St John Mackintosh at the end of the interview: Mackintoshes I’m writing this to tell my baby daughter
—who took my pen to chew just now—about her
rambunctious forebears, Papists or Dissenters,
before they were Glasgow artists or inventors:
nine hundred years of sanguinary glories,
blood-fuelled vendettas, feuding feudatories,
feral mosstroopers, breekless in the heather,
sleeping out plaid-wrapped through all Highland weather;
conveniently detained during Flodden,
second at Bannockburn, first at Culloden;
Jacobite malcontents, staunch in lost causes,
schooled by reverses and misfortune’s tawses;
clan wildcat totem for crest and supporters,
red lion, boar’s head, heart in hand, ship quarters;
proud bearings passed through gentleman and peasant,
from those ancestral mountains to the present
ludicrous days of raincoats and galoshes:
ferocious, feckless, fearless Mackintoshes. Next Week’s Guest
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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 12:00 and ends at 44:01 I’ve got to write this down in a way that helps people understand how this cycle works, where technology comes in and allows us to render scarcity irrelevant. And then what’s the business strategy to do this? And that’s where I point to people like Uber, Airbnb, Amazon—who are in the habit of saying, “How could we give people more for less?” Which is not the way traditional business was operating.
News
Kindle Oasis at Amazon.com Check out $20 off deals on Kindle, Kindle for Kids Bundle, and Kindle Paperwhite! (Not sure how long they will last.) My 17-minute video review of Kindle Oasis, featuring Darlene’s comments in her quilting studio - April 27, 2016 Fintie Oasis cover story by Chris Meadows at TeleRead
“Amazon in Talks to Create Virtual Reality Content” by Joan E. Solsman at The Wrap - April 26, 2016
“Amazon Studios May be gearing up to make its own original VR content” by Bryan Bishop at The Verge - April 26, 2016 Ricoh Theta M15 360 Degree camera Samsung Gear VR headset (requires Samsung smartphone) 360 YouTube video of Susan Carlson’s quilting class - April 25, 2016 “Susan Carlson: Quilting in the Key of Life” at lenedgerly.com - April 27, 2016 Samsung’s Gear 360 camera “Easier Reading? My $280 Oasis without bold or my 2013 Paperwhite with an all-bold file? See for yourself” by David Rothman at TeleRead - April 28, 2016 Interview with James McQuivey
“Brief: Digital Winners Know That More is More” by James McQuivey with Oliwia Berdak, Michelle MOorehead, Anna Berman, and Diane Lynch (one-paragraph summary; full report costs $349)
Next Week’s Guest
Paul St John Mackintosh, associate editor of TeleRead
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Assistant Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow Poland
Interview starts at 20:15 and ends at 43:40 On the Kindle Oasis: "I remember the first eBook readers that were available in Poland cost about that much as well, seven to eight years ago. It’s quite a steep price, and I’ve read comments on Polish web sites that indeed it’s very expensive. I also think that it’s something that you first need to probably experience when you’ve had it in your hands, and I think that’s when you can really say if it’s worth the price." News Kindle Oasis: Unlike Any Kindle You’ve Ever Held (If you order with this link, it will support the podcast with Amazon Associates commissions—thank you!) “When will your Kindle Oasis e-reader arrive? MAYBE not until September. My sympathy, Merlot fans” by David Rothman at TeleRead - April 21, 2016 This Week in Tech 558 with Leo Laporte & Friends - April 17, 2016 “Estimating Kindle E-Book Sales for Amazon” by Trefis Team at Forbes - April 2, 2016 “Dance With the One That Brought You” by Shania Twain (YouTube) Lyrics at Google Play “Gold-plated $290 Amazon Kindle Oasis: Less screen contrast than $120 Paperwhite” by David Rothman at Teleread - April 15, 2016 “The Kindle Oasis: Amazon’s breakthrough in snark generation” by Bufo Calvin at I Love My Kindle - “With Seattle Shelter Effort, Amazon Shows Glimmers of a ‘Good Neighbor’” by Kirk Johnson at The New York Times - April 21, 2016. (Click here to donate items to Mary’s Place that will be shipped directly to the homeless shelter set up by Amazon near its new corporate offices in Seattle.) “Amazon Wins $30 Million Deal to Sell E-Books in NYC Schools” by Hilary Brueck at Fortune - April 21, 2016 “Challenge to Google Books is Declined by Supreme Court” by Adam Liptak and Alexandra Alter at The New York Times - April 18, 2016 Google Books Interview with Szymon Szott Simon’s Linkedin profile AGH University of Science and Technology website “Amazon Gets Into Voice Recognition, Buys Ivona Software to Compete Against Siri” by Ingrid Lunden at TechCrunch - January 24, 2013 Ivona - try all the voices! VoicePIN voice recognition (biometrics) developed by a colleague of Szymon Szott at AGH
Szymon Szott at ResearchGate, a social network for researchers
Szymon’s Google Scholar profile “SDN@home: A Method for Controlling Future Wireless Home Networks” co-authored by Szymon Szott at IEEE Communications Magazine, the flagship magazine of the IEEE Communications Society - to be published in May, 2016
“Discouraging Traffic Remapping Attacks in Local Ad Hoc Networks” by Jerzy Konorski and Szymon Szott - July 2014
world Readers blog by Robert Drozd - "All readers of e-books, electronic books and the Kindle in Poland" “Polish view of Kindle Oasis” at TeleRead - April 22, 2016
Content
Poland: A History by Adam Zamoyski Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz Poems New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Old Axolotl: Hardware Dreams by Jacek Dukaj Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold
Next Week’s Guest James McQuivey, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Featuring Neil Lindsay, Amazon VP Devices and Chris Green, Amazon Lab 126 VP Industrial Design This special episode of The Kindle Chronicles is all about the new Kindle Oasis, based on an embargoed preview of the device that I attended in New York City on April 7, 2016. The episode is divided into the following four parts: 1. Meet the Oasis - product specs and first impressions. 2:14 to 8:4 (Note: In answer to Faith Eldridge's question, it turns out the Oasis does not have an adaptive light sensor. If that is an important capability, you may want to stick with the Kindle Voyage, which does have one.) 2. Live from New York: It’s the Kindle Oasis briefing! 8:47 to 28:37 3. Will Oasis be a Success? My thoughts. 28:40 to 32:06 4. What’s next for the Kindle? 32:10 to 36:20
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Author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity Interview starts at 28:24 and ends at 42:21 The people who are throwing rocks at the Google bus, they’re on to something. The understand something. We should listen. And we can reconfigure, we can optimize, reprogram our economy to help everybody—That’s extremely optimistic. I put myself on the hopeful side of the equation right now. Intro Elon Musk unveils Tesla Model 3 (YouTube) - March 31, 2016 News
“Amazon Takes on PayPal with New Payments Program” at Fortune - April 4, 2016
“Was Horace and Pete” even Television?” by Ian Crouch at The New Yorker - April 6, 2016 “The next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets” by Elizabeth Dwoskin at The Washington Post - April 7, 2016 “The inside story of how Amazon created Echo, the next billion-dollar business no one saw coming” by Eugene Kim at Business Insider - April 2, 2016 Jeff Bezos’s 2015 Letter to Shareholders (PDF) “Kids Are Practicing Their Reading Skills to Soothe Shy Shelter Dogs” by Anna Gragert at My Modern Met - February 24, 2016 Interview with Douglas Rushkoff at South By Southwest Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity Rushkoff at The Commonwealth Club Content Horace and Pete 10 episodes by Louis C.K., available for purchase Summer Doorways: A Memoir by W. S. Merwin “Alexa, Good Morning!” (Try it yourself.)
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The Kindle Chronicles’ first listener Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 43:13 I should have known that we’d be building our life around it like we have other things that you’ve done. I’ve gotten used to it. I should have known. Intro Whill wheelchair site News “Amazon is the ‘most reputable’ company in the US” by Julie Bort at Business Insider - March 29, 2016 Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown Echo Dot and Amazon Tap arrive! Tech Tip An ethical question about borrowing eBooks from your library with OverDrive Interview with Darlene TKC 1 with Baratunde Thurston TKC 208 with Jeff Bezos Darlene’s art quilts page Next Week’s Guest Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity - recorded at South by Southwest Interactive
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Editor-at-Large, CNET’s Technically Literate Interview starts at 19:40 and ends at 43:30 We have a very different generation coming up who may relate to literature in a different way, because we have completely digital generations coming up. So I think those of us who present stories to the world have to be open to different ways to present them. And when we have a way to do it like we do in Technically Literate, that is an on-line way to do it, I think we always have to be thinking about pushing the boundary. News “2016 Digital Book World Keynote Presentation” by Data Guy at Author Earnings - March 11, 2016 “Most everything you wanted to know about Data Guy: Revealed This Sunday in TeleRead” by David Rothman - March 25, 2016 Interview with Data Guy by Susan Lulgjuraj for TeleRead - will be live March 27, 2016 here. “Data Guy’s Web of Analysis: DBW Turns Hostility Into a Handshake” by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - March 10, 2016 “City re-introduces $30M Amazon contract for e-book marketplace” by Eliza Shapiro at Politico New York - March 22, 2016 “Banned by Amazon for returning faulty goods” by Miles Brignall at The Guardian March 18, 2016 “Return Too many items on Amazon? Will Amazon Ban your Account?” by Tuan Do at Techwalls - March 21, 2016 “Anonymous Rips Denver, Tattered Cover Over Homeless Policies, Threatens Doxing” by Michael Roberts at Westword - March 21, 2016 “Why is Amazon So Weird?” by Daniel Berkowitz at Digital Book World - March 23, 2016 Tech Tip “Missed the Kindle update deadline? Here’s how to update manually” by Nicole Cozma at CNET - March 23, 2016 Amazon’s Help page for Critical Software Update for Kindle eReaders Interview with Janis Cooke Newman CNET’s Technically Literate home page Amazon’s Janis Cooke Newman Page Lit Camp Writer’s Conference Technically Literate’s first short story, “The Last Taco Truck in Silicon Valley” by Michelle Richmond. (Video interview of Richmond by CNET’s editor-in-chief Connie Gugleilmo is at the end of the story.)
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Start and End Times of Interviews at South by Southwest Interactive Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post (8:20 to 18:34) Scott Totman, head of digital product engineering at Capital One 22:16 to 31:30) Rob Holzer, founder and CEO of Matter Unlimited and executive producer of Inside Impact: East Africa Adrian Bell, co-founder and Executive Director of Action Impact in Dubai Links to topics mentioned President Obama’s Keynote address at SXSW (Video) - March 11, 2016 Dewey Winburne Community Service Awards MEANS database to fight hunger in America http://www.theparentscircle.com/http://www.theparentscircle.com/ Inside Impact: East Africa, 360 Video film by Matter Unlimited for the Clinton Global Initiative Ricoh Theta S Digital Camera at Amazon.com Brené Brown, author of Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution. OpeneBooks.net Two TED talks by Brené Brown Next Week’s Guests Janis Cooke Newman, Editor-at-Large, Technically Literate Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
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Senior Writer, Publishers Weekly Interview starts at 19:24 and ends at 33:23 I absolutely think it’s madness to continue to push for regulatory input into the eBook market. Look what it did for you last time. Let’s just let the lawyers go away now. We’ve all articulated what we think the problem is in the market. Publishers came together to put the agency model in place, and they perfectly articulated the reason why they believe the agency model should be in place. I think that there’s got to be business solutions at this point. News “Supreme Court Rejects Apple’s Appeal” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - March 7, 2016 “Supreme Court Declines to Hear Apple’s Appeal in E-Book Pricing Case” by Adam Liptak and Vindu Goel at The New York Times - March 7, 2016 Hagens Berman press release on Supreme Court decision - March 8, 2016 “Apple’s $400M E-Book Payout: How Much You’ll Get and When” by Jeff John Roberts at Fortune - March 8, 2016 Department of Justice press release on Apple case - March 7, 2016 “The Cost of Returning Encryption to Amazon Fire” (video) at BloombergBusiness - March 7, 2016 “Jeff Bezos Lifts Veil on his Rocket Company, Blue Origin” by Kenneth Chang - March 8, 2016 “Why Jeff Bezos is finally ready to talk about taking people to space” by Christian Davenport at The Washington Post - March 8, 2016 “The Echo from Amazon Brims with Groundbreaking Promise” by Farhad Manjoo at The New York Times - March 9, 2016 “B&N is Shutting Down One of Its Top Three Digital Blunders on March 15” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - March 3, 2016 “B&N CDO Fred Argir: We Must Win the Mobile Experience” by Daniel Berkowitz at Digital Book World - March 8, 2016 Tech Tips How to save an audio clip using the Audible for Windows 10 app (video and instructions) Kindle for iOS update Interview with Andrew Albanese “Supreme Court Rejects Apple’s Appeal” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - March 7, 2016 Stories by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly Content “How to Format Your Book for Kindle,” a web course by Bruce Jones. (Enter the code KINDLEBONUS to get discounted price of $49 instead of original price, $149 Course link with discount already entered Why We Read Fiction by Lisa Zunshine Putting My Foot Down by Brent Underwood Next Week’s Show An audio collage of voices and ideas from South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, including Douglas Rushkoff, author of a new book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
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English Translator of Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold Interview starts at 20:10 and ends at 41:14 I like the fact that I can tell an editor there [at AmazonCrossing] that this book is something that you should really look for, and they listen. And in this case, from start to finish, I suggested this book, and it became a reality and now I’m sitting with it right here on my desk. News Amazon Tap - pre-order available at Amazon.com for $129.99, with delivery march 31, 2016 Echo Dot - Order from your Alexa or the Amazon app on your Android or iOS smartphone “Amazon Tap puts Alexa into a portable Bluetooth speaker” (with video demo) by Lauren Goode and Dieter Bohn at The Verge - March 3, 2016 “Amazon’s Echo Dot lets you put Alexa inside any speaker” by Lauren Good and Jacob Kastrenakes at The Verge - March 3, 2016 “Amazon’s smartphone flop was the best thing that happened to Alexa” by Lauren Goode at The Verge - March 3, 2016 “Amazon Fights for a bigger share of the AI Assistant Pie with Echo Dot and Amazon Tap” by Anthony Karcz at Forbes - March 3, 2016 “Amazon Introduces 2 Alexa Voice-Controlled Devices” by Farhad Manjoo at The New York Times - March 3, 2016 “Amazon’s Alexa will be able to control Nest and Honeywell thermostats this month” by Jacob Kastrenakes at The Verge - March 3, 2016 “Amazon, Federation of the Blind Reach Agreement on Accessibility” by Michele Molnar at Edweek - March 2, 2016 “Amazon Will Partner With Advocacy Group to Make Its E-Readers More Accessible to The Blind” by Ashley Gross at KPLU.org - March 2, 2016 “Amazon Decrypts Fire Tablets in Latest Update, Invites the FBI and NSA to Come On In” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - March 3, 2016 “Amazon stops encryption on Fire tablets, leaving data vulnerable to attack” by Nathanial Mott at The Guardian - March 3, 2016 “Amazon quietly disabled encryption in the latest version of Fire OS” by Ashley Carmen at The Verge - March 3, 2016 Full Disk Encryption explained (yeah, right) at source.android.com “Recall on CHARGER for two Amazon-UK Fire Tablets - possible risk of electric shock” by Andrys Basten at A Kindle World blog - March 2, 2016 “ALERT: Amazon recalls Kindle charger over electrical shock fears - is YOUR child at risk?” by Katie Mansfield at The Express - March 2, 2016 Tech Tip “The Benefits of an Amazon Giveaway for Kindle” by Chris McMullen at Digital Book World - March 2, 2016 Amazon Giveaway - How it Works Interview with K. E. Semmel Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold, translated into English by K. E. Semmel (Free download available with Kindle Unlimited) “How Amazon came to dominate fiction in translation” by Allison Flood at The Guardian - December 9, 2015 The Seventh Child by Erik Valeur, translated by K. E. Semmel “Writing While Translating” by Idra Novey at Literary Hub - February 25, 2016 Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
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Technically Literate, short stories published exclusively on CNET.com “Reading Literature in the Digital Age” - a free online course via University of Basel Pry Comment by Eolake Stobblehouse
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Author of Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives Interview starts at 14:49 and ends at 42:07 You worry about the next generation of readers. Is literature going to survive? It seems to be surviving at the moment, but the iPhone has been around since 2007, and the way that digital culture has taken over in those nine years is staggering. Its’s much more comprehensive and thoroughgoing than anyone expected. Intro The music of bluegrass legend Peter Rowan News “Apple Thinks It Can Win This Case at the Supreme Court” by Philip Elmer-DeWitt at Fortune - November 3, 2015 Apple’s Supreme Court Petition for a Writ of Certiorari (PDF) - October 28, 2015 “Apple’s $450 million e-books settlement gets final approval” by James Niccolai at PC World - November 22, 2016 “Scripps National Spelling Bee Announces Kindle as New Presenting Sponsor” - press release February 23, 2016 World’s Most Admired Companies in 2016 - Fortune
Tech Tip
Dave Slusher podcast episode of Evil Genius Chronicles in which he loses his Kindle and shuts it down via Amazon (starts at 31:50) Amazon Fire TV Device Software Updates Interview with David Denby Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives. by David Denby Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation by David Denby “Do Teens Read Seriously Anymore?” by David Denby at The New Yorker - February 23, 2016 “A Champion of the Humanities: David Denby” by Wendy Smith at Publishers Weekly - January 29, 2016 David Denby on NPR’s “On Point” with Tom Ashbrook - February 11, 2016 Great Books by David Denby Freddy the Pig series by Walter R. Books (available free with Kindle Unlimited) Books mentioned by Sherry Turkle: Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age and Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Spark Notes and CliffsNotes A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Netherland: A Novel by Joseph O'Neill Emma by Jane Austin Middlemarch by George Eliot The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain David Denby’s review of “Wild” in The New Yorker - December 8, 2014 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Washington Square by Henry James "The Heiress" (DVD) at Amazon.com “The Maltese Falcon” (Amazon video) “The Plot Against America: Donald Trump’s Rhetoric” by David Denby at The New Yorker - December 15, 2016 “Stop Humiliating Teachers” by David Denby at The New Yorker - February 11, 2016
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Winter Men, available for pre-order with delivery March 1, 2016. English Translator: K. E. Semmel CHI-RAQ, directed by Spike Lee, free to Prime members on Amazon Instant Video David Axelrod’s podcast interview with Spike Lee on The Axe Files - November 30, 2015 Comments A suggestion for an improvement to Kindle for Mac Next Week’s Guest K. E. Semmel, English translator of Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold
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Author of Winter Men Interview starts at 9:42 and ends at 43:24 I was very scared that it was translated into German. I really wanted it to be translated but still scared, because it’s like their war. I come from another country with another perspective on the war and write about their war and their forefathers. But the reception has been overwhelming. I’ve seen some reviews where they write that every college student should read this book, to read about their past. It’s a lot of responsibility to put on me, but some wrote that they are better able to understand their grandfathers better because of this book. That’s quite amazing. News Anonymous “Data Guy” of Author Earnings does hourlong video interview with Science Fiction & Fantasy Marketing Podcast - February 16, 2016 Author Earnings website “Amazon Kindle sales up 200% in India” at The Times of India - February 19, 2016 “Kobo CEO faces uphill e-book battle against Apple, Amazon” at The Globe and Mail - February 19, 2016 Amazon press release on acquisition of new Woody Allen film - February 18, 2016 Tech Tip Guitar Tuna iPhone app Interview with Jesper Bugge Kold Winter Men, available for pre-order with delivery March 1, 2016. English Translator: K. E. Semmel Jesper Bugge Kold’s author page at Amazon.com The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell Country in Past Tense by Jesper Bugge Kold - available for pre-order with delivery March 14, 2017. English translator: K.E. Semmel Content “Scribd Just Gutted Its eBook Service” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - February 16, 2016 Domino by Kia Heavey, a Kindle Scout winner, published by Kindle Press “Greenwich Author Wins Kindle Press Contract” at the Greenwich Sentinel - February 15, 2016 Next Week’s Guest David Denby, author of Lit Up (video of interview at Huffpost Live) “Why Reading Mark Twain is the Key to Understanding Donald Trump” by Ryan Buxton at The Huffington Post
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Chief Executive Officer of The Tattered Cover Book Stores Interview starts at 10:03 and ends at 42:09 I think it would be interesting for independent booksellers to experiment with selling eBooks directly, because it’s become much less device-centric. Tablets have in some ways normalized that world, and the notion that someone could build an open-source eReader app and that we could have direct relationships with publishers and sell eBooks is something I think worth exploring down the road. But it’s not a part of our core business. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google do what they do really well. For us, we have limited resources and limited brainpower. I’d rather see us make our stores even better than focus a lot of energy on that. News “Amazon exec to run digital efforts of Italy’s government” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - February 10, 2016 Diego Piacentini featured on Amazon employee page “Working at Amazon” web site - includes signup for receiving email updates Amazon organization chart February 2016 Author Earnings Report “Digital Arachnid: What Does Author Earnings Say to the Industry?” by Porter Anderson - February 9, 2016 “My Bias (again)” by Hugh Howey - February 12, 2016 “Amazon’s bookstore buzz hits San Diego” at the Lost Angeles Times - February 11, 2016 Shelf Awareness “Amazon Books Roundup” - February 12, 2016 (scroll down to find it) Tech Tip Amazon.com help page showing which Kindle you have “Critical Software Update for Kindle E-Readers” at Amazon.com Interview with Len Vlahos The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) “Len Vlahos, ‘The ABA Guy,’ to Publish YA Novel" by Judith Rosen at Publishers Weekly - October 23, 2013 The Scar Boys by Len Vlahos “Joyce Meskis is selling Tattered Cover Book Stores after 41 years” by Aldo Svaldi at The Denver Post - March 26, 2015 Kobo eReaders and eBooks available for purchase at The Tattered Cover website Blue Ink Review Brewing Beneath the Perk: My Journey through a coffee shop business..to Me by Teri Meehan, reviewed in Blue Ink Review Tattered Cover Press: Books on Demand Scar Girl by Len Vlahos - available for pre-order (hardcover only), delivery March 1 Content Harry Potter: The Complete Collection by J.K. Rowling (Kindle) - now $56.64 instead of the brief bargain price of $14.99 earlier this week. Postscript with Uber Driver Deb Brown (42:09 to 43:00) The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh (Link is to paperback copy at The Tattered Cover’s website) Next Week’s Guest Jesper Bugge Kold, author of Winter Men , an AmazonCrossing translation available for pre-order with delivery on March 1, 2016. You can get a free copy now via Kindle First if you are an Amazon Prime member.
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Creator of the I Love My Kindle Blog Interview starts at 10:46 and ends at 44:02 If people were evolving away from reading long-form reading, we would not have series. But right now people will say, “Oh yes, that’s great. It’s a 200-page book, but I want a thousand pages about this character. So I think you can make an argument that people are more into long-form reading that they were in the past. News “Mall CEO claims Amazon Books will open up to 400 physical storefronts” by Sam Machkovech at ars technica - February 2, 2016 “Amazon Plans Hundreds of Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores, Mall CEO Says” by Greg Bensinger at The Wall Street Journal - February 2, 2016 Business Insider photos of Amazon’s Seattle Book Store - February 3, 2016 “Unsubstantiated Rumor: Amazon to Open as Many as 400 Bookstores” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - February 2, 2016 Woody Allen interview in May, 2015 in which he whines about Amazon deal Tech Tip “Amazon’s Echo speaker can finally order you an Uber” at The Verge - February 5, 2016 “Amazon’s Kindle e-readers are getting a big software update soon” by Sam Byford at The Verge - February 3, 2016 5.7.2 Software update pages at Amazon.com for Kindle Voyage, Paperwhite (6th Generation), and Kindle “CBS Sports app for the Fire TV expected to be released this week in time for Super Bowl 50" Interview with Bufo Calvin I Love My Kindle blog I Love My Kindle blog subscription for Kindle - 99 cents a month The Collected I Love My Kindle Blog Volume 1 The Measured Circle blog by Bufo Calvin “How an e-book is like a treadmill at the gym” by Bufo Calvin Content Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold, an AmazonCrossing translation into English. Available as a free advance download for Prime members through Kindle First if you have not already downloaded a Kindle First book for February.
Next Week’s Guest
Len Vlahos, new owner of The Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver
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Editor of Amazon’s Little A imprint and Day One magazine Interview starts at 18:03 and ends at 42:20 A lot of editors across Amazon Publishing kind of have their hands in Day One. Everyone’s really excited about it and dedicated to discovering these new voices and finding opportunities for new writers. (Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths) News Amazon.com announces fourth quarter earnings (Press Release) - January 28, 2016 “Amazon Stock Plummets on Disappointing Q4 Results” by Jason Del Rey at re/code - January 28, 2016 “Amazon’s stock dives, but it’s because of a ‘good problem’” by Tracey Lien at The Los Angeles Times - January 29, 2016 “Amazon Prime is growing like crazy” by Jillian D’Onfro at Business Insider - January 25, 2016 “Amazon Prime Grew 35% in 2015” - report (PDF) by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners - January 25, 2016 “How Many Prime Members Does Amazon Have (And Why It Matters)” by Daniel B. Kline at The Motley Fool - January 26, 2016 TV commercials for #BaldwinBowl - Cheerleaders and Cheese Footballs “Get ready for Amazon’s third billion-dollar business: Echo” by Eugene Kim at Business Insider - January 27, 2016 “Amazon reportedly seeks a bigger hand in Android phone software” by Ron Amadeo at Ars Technica - January 25, 2016. Tech Tip Duolingo app for Fire tablet and iPhone (free) Interview with Morgan Parker Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night - poems by Morgan Parker (paperback only) The Offing Grave of Hummingbirds by Jennifer Skutelsky published by Little A
Content Day One at Amazon.com - subscription costs $1.59 a month or 37 cents an issue, with a free 30-day trial when you subscribe “How to Publish Your Book” by Jane Friedman - The Great Courses 24-lecture series available at Audible.com for $24.46 or 1 credit Next Week’s Guest Bufo Calvin, creator of the “I Love My Kindle” blog Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.
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Helping authors and publishers flourish in the digital age
Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05
This question has become a little bit of a litmus test in the writing and publishing community. It’s almost interesting to talk about how other people react very viscerally to Amazon as a good or bad influence or factor. I do consider myself mostly neutral. Nothing about it, I feel, is wholly good or bad. Mainly, it’s just brought about this enormous change. And for some the changes have been good, and for others they’ve been bad. For me personally, the change has been great. News “The drone invasion now underway” (video) at CBS News - October 18, 2015 “Exclusive: Amazon Reveals Details About Its Crazy Drone Delivery Program” by David Pogue at Yahoo.com - January 18, 2016 “Kindle e-Books will have a warning message if they have spelling or bad formatting” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - January 20, 2016 via The Passive Voice. “Is Amazon’s First Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore the Future of Retail?” by Pini Yakuel at Entrepreneur - January 18, 2016 “Seattle bookstores face new threat from Amazon: a brick-and-mortar location” by Julia Carrie Wong at The Guardian - January 21, 2016 “Amazon Expands its Smart Reordering Service” by Stacey Higginbotham at Fortune - January 19, 2016 “Your Printer Can Now Order Ink for You, Thanks to Amazon” by Angela Moscaritolo at PC Magazine - January 19, 2016 “How to Format Your Book for Kindle Course Coming Soon!" by Bruce Jones at Bruce the Book Guy - January 18, 2016 Tech Tips “Amazon Echo now lets Alexa read Kindle books to you” by Adario Strange at Mashable - January 17, 2016 Amazon info on Alexa’s reading of Kindle books “Amazon Tablets Receive Firmware Version 4.5.5.1 - Download and Apply Now” by Julian Pascal at Softpedia - January 20, 2016 Interview with Jane Friedman Roxane Gay website Roxane Gay’s author page at Amazon.com Bad Feminist and Untamed State by Roxane Gay Debbie Ohi website Kindle Scout Journey of Strangers by Elizabeth Zelvin “How an Industry of ‘Amazon entrepreneurs’ pulled off the Internet’s craftiest catfishing scheme” by Caitlin Dewey at The Washington Post - October 21, 2015 Wattpad Margaret Atwood on Wattpad Perma Free Books at Digital Book Today “How to Publish Your Book” course of 24 lectures by Jane Friedman at The Great Courses Next Week’s Guest Morgan Parker, editor of Amazon's Day One weekly literary magazine
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Author of Maude Interview starts at 15:00 and ends at 44:33 I do have an agent who called me, and he’s representing Maude. She’s been translated into Italian, German, and Russian. He made the deal for the audiobook. He’s right now negotiating with a few more countries. Whatever Kindle and Amazon don’t cover as far as print copies, he will handle that for me. And hopefully some day a motion picture! News “Amazon Prime Price Drops to $73 This Weekend” at Forbes - January 15, 2016 Prime Discount at Amazon.com “Mozart in the Jungle” at Amazon.com “Amazon to Release Portable Version of Echo Speaker in Coming Weeks” by Greg Bensinger at The Wall Street Journal - January 11, 2016 “Ford, Amazon working to connect cars to smart homes” by Autuan Goodwin at CNET - January 5, 2015 “First Click: Apple should echo Amazon with a Siri speaker” by Thomas Ricker at The Verge - January 14, 2016 Alexa - $179.99 at Amazon.com Tech Tip IFTT recipe for setting temperature on a NEST thermostat with Alexa IFTT recipe for having Alexa help find your phone by calling it iOS Kindle update version 4.16 Interview with Donna Foley Mabry “How a Shy Former Avon Lady Became the Queen of Self-Publishing” by Katie McCollow at Newsweek - August 9, 2015 “How Donna Mabry Went from Seamstress to Best-Selling Author” by Miral Sattar at Bibliocrunch - October 14, 2015 The Alexandra Merritt Mystery Series Box Set (Books 1 through 5) - Kindle format, available through Kindle Unlimited The Las Vegas Sophisticate Joyce Mochrie, proofreader The Manhattan Stories, Books 1 through 4 Maude in Kindle and Audible format Conversations with Skip in Kindle and Audible format Mary Ann Unger’s Matti James mysteries D. N. “Scotty” Curran’s books at Amazon.com The Iron Horse Chronicles by Robert Murphy Books by James C. Logsdon: The House of James - ExPat and Romblon, and The Soul of Black Mountain, Nevada Content The Runaway Campaign: A Year Inside the Republican Race for President (Kindle Single) by The Washington Post The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back by Clark Elliot
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Creator of the Evil Genius Chronicles blog and podcast
Interview starts at 10:47 and ends at 42:22
This idea that books are exempt from the rules of hoarding, that you’re supposed to be happy that you have walls and walls lined with these things? I don’t actually feel that. I feel that if I had one of those book scanners or if there was a program, if Google had a book buy-back program where I could trade them every paper copy I have for a digital copy, I would do that in a heartbeat with almost every book in this house. I would love that. That would be the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
News
“Amazon’s New Kindle Trade-In Program Includes a $20 Credit Toward a New Kindle” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - January 7, 2016
Details of Kindle Trade In program at Amazon.com
“Nook holiday sales plunge 25% to $41M as Barnes & Noble falls further behind Amazon Kindle” by Todd Bishop at GeekWire - January 7, 2016
“Amazon.com, Inc.’s Best-Selling Product in 2015” by Steve Symington at the Motley Fool - January 4, 2016
Psychotherapeutic Reiki: A Holistic Body-Mind Approach to Psychotherapy by Richard R. Curtin Jr. Click here for paperback version published via CreateSpace
“Ford partners with Amazon to connect cars with homes” by Marco della Cava at USA Today - January 5, 2016
Tech Tip
Bear Motion Premium Slim Sleeve Case Cover for Kindle Voyage - $9.89 at Amazon.com
Interview with Dave Slusher
Evil Genius Chronicles
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (paperback) by R. Buckminster Fuller
Marvel Unlimited
Rock and Roll Geek Show hosted by Michael Butler
Babies Love album by Iron Maiden
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
Scott Sigler
Nathan Lowell
J A Konrath
The Mad at Dad Podcast with Dave Slusher and Michael Butler
Content
Amazon profile of Donna Mabry, author of Maude
Carless in Denver: Day 8
I am posting daily at my Instagram account as my wife and I continue an experiment in urban living without owning a car. So far so good. Denver turns out to have lots of transportation options that we are learning how to use efficiently.
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Editorial Director at Publishers Weekly Interview starts at 16:57 and ends at 44:32 It’s far from the death of eBooks. eBooks are a permanent part of the publishing industry, for sure. But what’s the next innovation? What’s the next mover? What’s going to come along to jumpstart it again? Publishers acknowledge that all you've really done so far is to put the text into a digital format. News “DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Deny Apple’s E-book Appeal” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - December 31, 20115 “The Judge that Apple Hates” by David Margolick at Vanity Fair - May 31, 2014 Amazon’s 2015 holiday press release “Amazon may have up to 80 million high-spendiong Prime members worldwide” by Tricia Duryee at GeekWire - September 14, 2015 Tech Tip Thinking out loud about multi-reading Interview with Jim Milliot “PW’s Person of the Year: Jeff Bezos” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - December 8, 2008 “New Study Finds Low Levels of Digital Library Borrowing” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - November 27, 2015 Content “The 110 Most Useful URLs for Kindle Owners” at Me and My Kindle - January 1, 2015 Next Week’s Guest Dave Slusher, host of Evil Genius Chronicles podcast Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Publications Specialist, Wyoming State Library Interview starts at 20:34 and ends at 38:51 We know that libraries will continue to evolve. The technology is changing so fast. It’s kind of hard to say how they will continue to evolve. But they are going to be out there to meet the needs of their patrons. News Jeff Bezos's address to the Academy of Achievement (video) in 2001 Interview with Susan Mark Wyoming State Library GoWYLD.net “Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits” by Pew Internet - October 23, 2012
Next Week’s Guest
Jim Milliot, editorial director of Publishers Weekly Correction This really is episode 386, not 388 as I state in the intro. TKC regrets the error.
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Vice President - Amazon Devices Interview starts at 18:29 and ends at 37:47 We spent two days in an off-site with Jeff going through the experience, setting up little scenarios of “Ok, here’s the customer. They’ve done’ this, they’ve done this.” And then we would go off in our own corners for 15 minutes and be that customer and then come back together and discuss “What did we think worked, what didn’t work.” Two full days dedicated to that customer experience, thinking about what it’s going to be like for a customer to use Kindle. I thought it was an amazing example of us investing in what it takes to get it right for the customer.
News
“A Secretive Air Cargo Operation is Running in Ohio, and Signs Point to Amazon” by Kari Paul at Motherboard - November 23, 2015 “Amazon in talks to lease Boeing jets to launch its own air-cargo business” by Jay Greene and Dominic Gates at The Seattle Times - December 17, 2015 “Amazon’s next $400 billion opportunity” by Jilian D’Onfro at Business Insider - December 18, 2015 “Amazon to Roll Out a Fleet of Branded Trailer Trucks” by Leena Rao at Fortune - December 4, 2015 “Amazon.com Inc Just Expanded an Underappreciated Prime Perk” by Sam Mattera at The Motley Fool - December 13, 2015 Photo sharing and other Amazon Household benefits Amazon expands Fire TV selection - press release December 17, 2015 Tech Tip "Amazon Fire OS 5.1.1 update: Does it change anything?” by Paul St John Mackintosh at TeleRead - December 15, 2015 “First Look: Amazon’s $50 Fire tablet” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - October 2, 2015 “My $50 Fire microSD memory problem fixed - no thanks to ES File Explorer” by Paul St John Mackintosh at TeleRead - November 29, 2015 Interview with Charlie Tritschler “Kindle hacking, iPod parallels and a chat with the Kindle director” by Brier Dudley at The Seattle Times - November 19, 2007 Amazon Kindle - Wikipedia Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition - $249.99 Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition press release - December 7, 2015 “Amazon updates its Fire tablet to make it better for night readers” by Micah Singleton at The Verge - December 2, 2015 Kindle Voyage Amazon Word Runner
wordrunner hashtag on Twitter
The Orphan Master’s Son: A Novel by Adam Johnson The Ranger’s Apprentice Collection by John A. Flanagan Content Cancer Vixen: A True Story (Pantheon Graphic Novels) by Marisa Acocella Marchetto Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar American Splendor, the 2003 film based on the the life of Harvey Pekar - $14.99 at Amazon.com Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles podcast and blog
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Garrett Riley Outro “Amazon Echo turns on Candy Cane Lane” (video) - December 13, 2015 Next Week’s Guest Susan Mark of the Wyoming State Library
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Founder and CEO of BeeLine Reader
Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05
They tried it out with the first graders and found that in the control classroom the students’ reading fluency went up by about 8 points in the course of a month. In the BeeLine classroom, they went up by 14 points.
News
Leather covers by Oberon Design for Kindles and Fires Limited Edition Premium Leather Case for Fire HD 8 - $79.99 Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition - $249.99 “How to use Blue Shade on your Amazon Fire - but you really don’t want to” by Paul St John Mackintosh at TeleRead - December 7, 2015 “New Fire OS Bellini 5.1.1 Update Rollling Out to Some Fire Tablets” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - December 8, 2015 “Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: Let’s Send Donald Trump to Space” by Ryan Parker at Billboard.com - December 8, 2015 “The sweet rides of tech’s millionaires and billionaires” by Dave Smith at Tech Insider - November 27, 2015 Tech Tip The Martian by Andy Weir Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Interview with Nick Lum BeeLine Reader BeeLine Reader wins Tech Award Coverage of BeeLine Reader in Gizmodo, FastCompany, and The Verge Content Amazon Best Sellers of 2015 (So Far) Next Week’s Guest Susan Mark, publications specialist at the Wyoming State Library.
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Graphic designer, author, product developer and workshop presenter Interview starts at 14:57 and ends at 44:47 So whatever you do, you build products that relate to the knowledge that you have, and the two can feed each other, and you can do them in the same space. News “Take your tablet to bed: Amazon rolls out ‘blue shade’ tool for Fire” by Ellie Zolfagharifard at The Daily Mail - December 2, 2015 “Slice: Amazon grabs one-third of Black Friday online sales” by Ian P. Murphy at RetailDive - December 3, 2015 Amazon press release on holiday sales - December 1, 2015 “Amazon Puts out Hollow Holiday Metrics” by Natasha Lomos at TechCrunch - December 1, 2015 “Barnes & Noble Shares Clobbered As It Tells a Dreary Financial Story” by David Lieberman at Deadline.com - December 4, 2015. “Barnes & Noble’s Problems are Self-Inflicted” by Lutz Muller at Seeking Alpha - December 1, 2015 Tech Tip ComiXology and Amazon accounts can now be merged - via Tom Semple and Nate Hoffelder Interview with Bruce Jones Books published by Bruce Jones on Amazon.com Essential Chords for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele & Banjo by Bruce Jones “Marketing Your Videos” workshop in Ghana - November 26, 2015 CreateSpace Johann Bashford coloring books Mandala Happiness coloring books by Bruce Jones
Bruce's How to Publish your Book Facebook group and map site Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income website
Bill Gentile’s Backpack Journalism website and online video workshops Periscope Blab Katch
Books recommended by Bruce Jones:
Write. Publish. Repeat. (The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success), by Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant
Kindle Publishing Package: How to Discover Best-Selling eBook Ideas + How to Write a Nonfiction eBook in 21 Days + 61 Ways to Sell More Nonfiction Kindle Books by Steve Scott
How to Market a Book by Joanna Penn
Publish and Profit by Mike Koenigs
Bruce Jones's extensive resource page - highly recommended!
Content Click here to receive a free eBook from the University of Chicago Press: Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle Interview with the authors by Scott Monty Click here for a video on how to install BlueFire Reader on your Fire tablet
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Author of The Selected Poems of Donald Hall Interview starts at 12:51 and ends at 43:57 It was a house that my great-grandfather bought in 1865, and the same family’s always lived in it. I’ll be dying pretty soon, of course, in the way of things. But I have a granddaughter who’s going to take it over then. Magnificent! News Tweet of Blue Origin landing by @JeffBezos Blue Origin rocket video - November 24, 2015 “The reusable space rocket is nearly here with Blue Origin’s first successful landing” by Loren Grush at The Verge - November 24, 2015
Tech Tip
A conversation with my wife Darlene on how to share books from the same Kindle archive Interview with Donald Hall The Selected Poems of Donald Hall - available for preorder with delivery December 1, 2015 Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 by Donald Hall The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon by Donald Hall Without: Poems by Donald Hall The Painted Bed: Poems by Donald Hall Web of Stories audio interviews with Donald Hall in 2010
Content
400 Open Road Media books on sale Monday, November 30, 2015, at the Kindle Store
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Creator of the Cuenca Tech Life blog
Interview starts at 1:29 and ends at 21:34
I just turned 70, so growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s was very special. Cuenca reminded me of Brooklyn in the 1950s. The word for neighborhood in Spanish is barrio, so each barrio had its own butcher and baker and church. People knew you on the street, and they were very, very friendly. It was a safe place to be. Interview with Lenny Charnoff Cuenca Tech Life blog - Technology News in Cuenca, Ecuador Cuenca iPad Users Group apps: Pocket, Medium, Yahoo News Digest The John Russell series by David Downing Books by Jo-Ann Mapson and J.A. Jance Conversation with Darlene and Deb about our trip Hosteria La Andaluza in Riobamba, Ecuador Overseas Adventure Travel Tren Crucero train tour of Ecuador The Devil’s Nose Ali Shungu Mountaintop Ecolodge in Otavalo Hotel Casa Ordonez in Cuenca Next Week’s Guest: Donald Hall, author of Essays After Eighty and the forthcoming Selected Poems Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.
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This is the third of my Ecuador TKC episodes, uploaded today (Tuesday November 10, 2015) from the Ali Shungu Mountaintop Resort in Otavalo. You will hear the owners and hosts at Ali Shungu, Frank and Margaret, talk about their thirty-plus years in Ecuador, and you will hear from our birdwalk guide in Mindo, Alex Luna. Also, another roundtable conversation with Darlene and Deb on the week's highlights. You will find more coverage of our travels in Ecuador at LenEdgerly.com and photos at instagram.com/lenedgerly.
This is the second of my Ecuador TKC episodes, uploaded today (Thursday November 5, 2015) from the cloud forest in Mindo at the Sisakuna Lodge. You will hear our Overseas Adventure Travel guide, Roberto Quintana, on location in the Galapagos, telling us about sea lions, blue-footed boobies, and Galapagos hawks, as well as a conversation I recorded with Darlene and Deb aboard our ship, the Carina.
Before bringing you here to Ecuador, I will take a look at two news stories involving Amazon that reached me by the Internet. One is a report of new Kindles coming this month, and the other is of the Amazon Books store that opened for real in Seattle.
You will find more Ecuador coverage and photos at LenEdgerly.com and photos at Instagram.com/lenedgerly . Thanks for listening!
I am posting Friday's episode of the podcast very early, on Monday, this week from Quito, Ecuador, because tomorrow we leave for the Galapagos Islands where there will be little if any Internet connection.
In this show you will hear two of our fellow Overseas Adventure Travel tour members talk about how they use their Kindles. Also, inspired music by a choir of disabled children at the Sinamune School in Quito, night sounds from a lagoon in the Amazon rain forest, our guide Juan's explanation of native healing and shamanistic traditions from his village, and initial impressions from Darlene, Deb, and me after our first week in Ecuador.
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon
Highlights from my interview recorded on July 26, 2012, at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle The Pre-Trip Conversation My wife Darlene, her sister Deb and I look ahead to our travels in the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador Recorded on September 28, 2015 “Portrait of a Cheetah” - November 8, 2010 “How to Make a Cheetah Purr” YouTube video - November 8, 2010 “When the Danger is Now-Now” - November 14, 2010 “Tourists in the Townships” - November 4, 2010 “What Nelson Mandela Learned in Prison” - October 30, 2010 “Living History at Robben Island” - October 30, 2010 “Tinted Windows on Soweto” - October 23, 2010 Darlene’s quilt, “Mr Z” inspired by the Africa trip Elephant quilt Icebreaker clothing Overseas Adventure Travel DuoLingo iOS app iTranslate app for iOS and Apple Watch Tren Crucero trip in Ecuador More media from Ecuador: My Instagram photos and my personal blog at LenEdgerly.com Next Week’s Show Audio highlights from Amazon the rainforest instead of Amazon the retailer. This will be the first of four episodes that I plan to record and upload from Ecuador.
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Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 39:45 Of the top 100 bestsellers in the Kindle Store for the entire year of 2014, 91 of those books were made available by the publishers at prices that we discovered, put up and featured on BookGorilla. The average price of those 91 on their feature day was $2.92. The total price of those 91 books if you had bought them at their original prices would have been $996. If you bought them on their BookGorilla day it was $265. What’s not to like about that? News Glenn Lurie, CEO of AT&T Mobility interviewed on the re/code replay podcast - October 12, 2015 AmazonCrossing commits $10 more to translations into English (press release) Click here to propose a book for translation by AmazonCrossing Andrew Richard Albanese’s review of court cases affecting publishing, at Publisher’s Weekly - October 15, 2015 Tech Tip Interview with Stephen Windwalker Kindle Nation Daily BookGorilla The Post-American World: Release 2.0 by Fareed Zakaria (Audible version) Fall of Giants: The Century Trilogy, Book 1 by Ken Follett, read by John Lee (Audible) Ulysses by James Joyce, read by John Lee (Audible) Audible Membership plans, including the Platinum Annual Membership mentioned by Steve in the interview The Dark-Hunter Series collection thus far by Sherrilyn Kenyon Content Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity by Douglas Rushkoff (Available for pre-order with delivery March 1, 2016) Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall, who will be my guest on TKC 382 on November 27, 2016 Next Week’s Show A reprise of my interview with Jeff Bezos on July 26, 2012 and a conversation with my wife Darlene and her sister Deborah about our trip five years ago to Africa and our plans for Ecuador. Click here for information about Darlene’s participation in a show at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts October 21, 2015, through January 10, 2016. The poster for the show has a sample from her “Ellie” quilt, showing the eyes of an elephant we saw in Africa. How to Travel with us to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands I will upload four episodes of The Kindle Chronicles during the trip, available in the usual feeds Blog posts will appear regularly at LenEdgerly.com I hope to share at least one photo a day at Instagram.com/LenEdgerly Tweets? Maybe. If so, you will find them at Twitter.com/LenEdgerly
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This is another test of my mobile podcasting gear, two days before we leave for Ecuador. I am hoping the photo of Claire and me shows up with RSS feeds.
For audio, I used 44:58 of recording from my visit to San Francisco to attend the Amazon new-products demonstration on September 16, 2015.
Playing with tech stuff when I should be packing,
Len
The New York Times’s publishing industry reporter Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 For the people that are price sensitive--if you’re not somebody that reads digitally because you prefer that, because you find it more convenient--but you’re maybe a hybrid reader, you might get a paperback if it’s significantly cheaper than an eBook, if you are somebody that toggles back and forth. News My experience with a Kindle devices customer survey First impressions of the Amazon Fire HD 10 and keyboard case Mindjet app for mindmapping (free) Tech Tip Overcast podcatcher app for iPhone and iPad “The best podcast app for iOS, Overcast, is now totally free” by Chris Welch at The Verge - October 9, 2015 “Overcast 2” at Marco.org - October 9, 2015 Interview with Alexandra Alter “NYTimes hires WSJ’s Alter to cover publishing” by Chris Roush at Talking Biz News - June 6, 2014 “The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print is Far From Dead” by Alexandra Alter at The New York Times - September 22, 2015 The New York Times Book Review podcast “Svetlana Alexievich Wins Nobel Prize in Literature” by Alexandra Alter - October 8, 2015 Fates and Furies: A Novel by Lauren Groff A Little Life: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Content Amazon Editors pick 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Comments Clippings.io “Clippings.io and Evenote" - YouTube video by Carie Harling - October 21, 2015 Next Week’s Guest Stephen Windwalker, creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla
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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 14:38 and ends at 41:53 It’s not about Amazon Echo, it’s about putting microphones in various contexts in your life. Plug one in, like a Glade air freshener, into your bathroom, one next to your bedstand, one in the hallway, one in the laundry, and pretty soon you don’t need Dash buttons. All you have is Alexa everywhere in your home. And you can have Alexa on your phone or in your car if you want, but but most of what Amazon sells you are thinking of in your home, in specific contexts. And so long as you have that microphone sitting everywhere, listening for you to wake it up by saying “Alexa,” that gives you frictionless commerce opportunities that are astonishing, really, compared to what we think of Amazon in 1998 when they were starting to do things like single-click ordering, and you think, “Wow, that was convenient.” We are so far past that now. News Amazon Flex “What Amazon’s Uber-like delivery service means for the sharing economy” by Brian Fung at The Washington Post - September 30, 2015 “Why I Work for Amazon: A Response” by Maria Renz at re/code - September 25, 2015 You can help the Kindle Chronicles by purchasing your new tablet using these links (thanks!): Fire and case Fire HD 8 and case Fire HD 10 and keyboard case “First Look: Amazon’s $50 Fire tablet” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - October 2, 2015 Tech Tips Listener Tom Semple’s tip for accessing the diagnostics screen an original Kindle: Go to Settings page, then type ALT-4-1-1. The first line will say something like 'The FRAS, FIRS, WEBSITE, TODO, CDE server is UP, UP, UP, UP, UP' when everything is working. These will all be 'DOWN' if wireless is turned off or some mix of UPs and DOWNs when there is some other issue (again the meaning is not particularly clear other than 'UP' is good and 'DOWN' is not good). ALT-5-1-1 initiates a 'loopback test', which always seems to fail on my Kindle. No idea what it is for. Finally there is ALT-6-1-1, which seems to show absolutely nothing. If I remember, it was sometimes necessary to switch cellular networks, maybe that is what it is for. Click here to buy a $25.95 replacement battery for the original Kindle. (via Tom Semple) Interview with James McQuivey Content Starts at 41:57 and ends at 44:28: Excerpts from my conversation with Gabby Wallace, author of the forthcoming Kindle book, Go Natural English: Learn to be Fluent in 15 Minutes a Day . Recorded on September 25, 2015 at the Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine. Next Week’s Guest Alexandra Alter, publishing industry reporter at The New York Times
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General Manager of Amazon’s Kindle Scout Interview starts at 16:58 and ends at 44:45 It’s really the best part of the job. There isn’t a day that goes by that I’m not either extremely proud as a publisher or really inspired as a human. Intro Agents of Change conference on September 25, 2015, in Portland, Maine hosted by Rich Brooks of Flyte Media Click here if you are interested in purchasing a digital pass to AOC for $199. News Note: You can sign up as a new member for Amazon Prime membership for just $67 on Friday, September 25, 2015. The offer celebrates Amazon’s win of five Emmys for “Transparent” at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards. The deal begins at 12 a.m. ET and ends at 11:59 p.m. PT. Press Release. “The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print is Far from Dead” by Alexandra Alter at The New York Times - September 22, 2015 Author Earnings “Will the Supreme Court Take Apple’s E-Book Appeal?” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - September 18, 2015 Mike Shatzkin’s post about the demise of Oyster and Alexandra Alter’s piece - September 23, 2015 Interview with Dina Hilal Kindle Scout “Kindle Scout Success: An Aspiring Author’s Journey” by Christina Taylor at Publishers Weekly - September 17, 2015 Kindle Press titles mentioned: Rising Tide (SIRENS, Book 1) by T. L. Zalecki, Eddie & Sunny: A Love Story by Stacey Cochran, Royal Date by Sariah Wilson, Grave of Hummingbirds by Jennifer Skutelsky, Wrangling Echoes by B. Breckenridge, Housebroken by The Behrg, The Dead of Summer by Heather Balog, Her Billionaire Bodyguard Bridegroom by Lisa Weaver “Amazon’s Kindle Scout Crowdsourced Publishing Platform Expands Globally, Remains English-Only” by Ingrid Lunden at TechCrunch Oyster blog post on sunsetting its book subscription service Next Week’s Guest James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research
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Links related to Amazon’s 2015 Fall Product Launch in San Francisco Amazon news releases on the new $50 Fire tablet, the new Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 tablets, new Fire Kids Edition, new Fire TV with 4K Ultra HD and Fire TV Stick with voice remote The new Fire Tablets lineup “Amazon has 6 New Devices—and an actual plan for hardware” by David Pierce at Wired - September 17, 2015 How Spritz works - February 16, 2014 My interview with Dave Limp, Amazon senior vice president for devices, starts at 25:44 and ends at 32:27 Next Week’s Guest Dina Hilal, general manager for Kindle Scout
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Author of Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books Interview starts at 15:46 and ends at 42:34 My main attraction to a Kindle is only age-related. If my vision deteriorates enough that I need to make the type bigger, then I could see that it’s just a wonderful tool to have. But so long as I can enjoy the books that I have, the physical books, I’ll stick with them. I have nothing against them [eReaders]. I believe that what fundamentally matters is stories, poems—people need them. The means that we access them isn’t crucial at all. News “Amazon to Release $50 Tablet as it Struggles to Sell Pricier Devices” by Greg Bensinger at The Wall Street Journal - September 7, 2015 (Behind paywall - copy headline and paste into Google) “What’s New Tonight from Amazon—Summary of New Kindles and Fires” at The Kindle Chronicles - September 17, 2015 “Amazon Kindle Voyage 2 to be Released November 2015” by Michael Kozlowski at Good e-Reader - July 9, 2015 “Amazon’s Kindle Scout Publishing Platform Expands Internationally” - press release September 9, 2015 “20 Years of Amazon.com Bookselling” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - September 4, 2015 Tech Tip How to type like 1,000 monkeys on a Kindle on-screen keyboard Interview with Michael Dirda Reviews of Browsings in The Washington Post, The Minneapolis StarTribune, and Wall Street Journal “Book Shopping with the Best-Read Man in America” by John Lingan at The Paris Review - December 28, 2012 Michael Dirda’s reading at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. - August 10, 2015 Twisted Clay by Frank Walford On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle Professor Challenger Premium Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle Content
Books published by Kindle Press based on Kindle Scout reader input Housebroken by The Behrg
Eddie & Sunny by Stacey Cochran
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Author of The Well-Presented Manuscript Interview starts at 12:13 and ends at 42:27 There are some wonderful stories that I just can’t enjoy, because the author has done such a poor job with the language. One of the reasons that I wanted to write The Well-Presented Manuscript was selfishly to increase my own enjoyment of other people’s books by helping them to not make so many errors that would keep hooking my attention as I was reading them. News “E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contracts” by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg at The Wall Street Journal - September 3, 2015 (Behind the pay wall, try Googling the reporter’s last name and the headline to get full story.) “Amazon Could be Working on These 6 New Devices” at The Motley Fool - September 2, 2015 Amazon press release on video downloads to iOS and Android devices - September 1, 2015 Amazon page on downloading Amazon Video content to iOS and Android “Amazon Prime Video now does what Netflix won’t: offline playback” by Bryan Bishop at The Verge - September 1, 2015 “Amazon Stock Delivers Rebound as Prime Now Launches” at Investor’s Business Daily - August 25, 2015 Amazon announces Prime Now - August 25, 2015 Tech Tip Read - Ultimate ePub Reader app for iOS Interview with Mike Reeves-McMillan The Well-Presented Manuscript: Just What You Need to Know to Make Your Fiction Look Professional by Mike Reeves-McMillan Other books at the Kindle Store by Mike Reeves-McMillan The Review Curmudgeon, Mike’s reviews blog Mike’s Goodreads page Fantasy Book Review “How to Calm Yourself Down” and “How to Get Into a Good Mood” (YouTube Videos) by Mike Reeves-McMillan Books by Tim Powers Hide Me Among the Graves: A Novel by Tim Powers clippings.io “Immerse or Die” at Creativity Hacker Content Essays after Eighty by Donald Hall The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep by Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin and Irina Maununen “RH Children’s Buys Self-Pubbed Phenom ‘Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep” by Rachel Deahl at Publishers Weekly - September 2, 2015 Next Week’s Guest Michael Dirda, author of Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books
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Editorial Director of Books and Kindle at Amazon.com Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 39:15 On The Story of the Lost Child: I think this is going to break Elena Ferrante out as a bona fide super star in this country. And nobody knows who she is, which I love! News “Amazon e-book deal with NYC public schools postponed as blind advocates say it would leave out visually impaired students” by Lisa L. Colangelo and Ben Chapman at The Daily News - August 25, 2015 “Amazon Curtails Development of Consumer Devices” by Greg Bensinger at The Wall Street Journal - August 26, 2015 Amazon Devices Team, US jobs page with video “Amazon Shoppers Not Swayed by Workplace Horror Stories” by Ashley Rodriguez at Advertising Age - August 26, 2015 Tech Tip The Daily Review at kindle.amazon.com Interview with Sara Nelson Amazon’s Big Fall Books Preview Press release on Fall Books Preview - August 19, 2015 Fall Reading Preview at the Amazon Book Review The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels, Book Four by Elena ferrante Cancer Vixen: A True Story by Marisa Acocella Marchetto (graphic novel) Fall Books Preview: Children’s Books The Thing About Jelly Fish by Ali Benjamin Content “21 Great Novels It’s Worth Finding Time to Read” by Jacquelyn Mitchard at AARP - September 2014 “Read the World’s Best Books for Free with the Harvard Classics” by Rob Nightingale at MakeUseOf - August 26, 2015 Harvard Classics Wikipedia entry, listing the contents of all 51 volumes Next Week’s Guest Mike Reeves-McMillan, author of The Well-Presented Manuscript: Just What You Need to Know to Make Your Fiction Look Professional
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Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Six Colors Interview starts at 17:44 and ends at 42:27 I hope the E Ink readers stick around, because I do love them. But it’s going to be a niche market. It’s going to be for people who are dedicated book readers who are willing to spend at least a little bit of money for a nice, distraction-free experience. News “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace” by Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld at The New York Times - August 15, 2015 “Was Portrayal of Amazon’s Brutal Workplace on Target?” - blog post by Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor of The New York Times - August 18, 2015 “Jeff Bezos Responds to brutal NYT story, says it doesn’t represent the Amazon he leads” by John Cook at GeekWire - August 16, 2015 An Amazon employee’s response to NYT article at LinkedIn - August 16, 2015 Tech Tips "How to renew digital titles” at Overdrive Interview with Jason Snell Jason Snell’s Six Colors blog National Novel Writing Month Upgrade podcast episode #8 with Jason Snell and Scott McNulty re: Kindle Voyage Content Amazon’s Fall Reading Preview French translation of David Foster Wallace’s masterpiece Infinite Jest (Slate) (Available at amazon.fr) Next Week’s Guest Sara Nelson, editorial director at Amazon.com
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I am experimenting with iPhone apps that may enable me to post episodes of the Kindle Chronicles while Darlene and I are in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands this fall. I won't bring my MacBook Air, but it looks as if the tools for mobile podcasting have greatly improved in the past few years. I found an iOS app named Opinion that has a very simple editing function for recording audio, and it can share the file to Libsyn via my Dropbox account.
I am including a photo of Claire taken here at Ocean Park last week. On the road, this could be a giant turtle or sea lion!
We don't leave until October, so I will have time to perfect my traveling podcast studio before the trip.
Please let me know how this sounds. You can email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com.
Thanks,
Len
Creator of the Fiona Griffiths crime series Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 37:59 Whoever heard of a retailer offering 70 percent royalty? It’s never happened before. How’s that not a good thing for authors? So I just think the Authors United group are bananas, quite frankly. And I think there is increasingly a swell of opinion among authors—not amongst yet among the more traditional structures—but there is a sort of side movement thinking, “Hang on. Amazon actually offers us quite a lot.
News
“The Rise of Phone Reading” by Jennifer Maloney at The Wall Street Journal - August 12, 2015
Tech Tips
Kindle software updates
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr
Interview with Harry Bingham
1. Talking to the Dead
2. Love Story, With Murders
3. The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths
4. This Thing of Darkness
The Writers' Workshop
Cotard’s Syndrome (Wikipedia)
Review of This Thing of Darkness by John Cheal at Crime Review - July 4, 2015
Content
“The Best Romances of August” by Adrian Liang at The Amazon Book Review - August 7, 2015
“10 Best Novels by Poets” by Naja Marie Aidt at Publishers Weekly - August 7, 2015
Next Week’s Guest
Jason Snell
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Creator of Dispatches from the Frat House Interview starts at 14:23 and ends at 40:20 I’d like to write the kind of book that I’d like to read. And immediately there’s that thing in your head that goes, “Why? There are a gazillion books out there. Why would you want to write a book? This little wife in the midwest surrounded by kids—who’s going to want to read that?” And the other part of my brain goes, “Well why not? Why shouldn't I write that? If nobody reads it, I wrote it, I’m happy. So why not?" News “Watch out, Siri, Amazon’s Alexa could be coming to iOS soon” by Jeff Brynes at appadvice.com - August 3, 2015 Alexa Voice Service blog post at Amazon - July 31, 2015 “Why Apple and Amazon Chose to be ‘Frenemies’” by Michael Blanding at Forbes - August 3, 2015 "Frenemies in Platform Markets: The Case of Apple’s iPad vs. Amazon’s Kindle” by Ron Adner, Jianqing, and Feng Zhu at HBS Working Paper Series (Full paper in PDF) “Amazon Cuts Down on Prime Members Sharing Their Benefits” by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch - August 3, 2015 Tech Tips Christina Warren’s method for adding author autograph to a Kindle cover - on the Accidental Tech Podcast - May 29, 2015 Kindle Direct Publishing KDP Pricing Support Beta Psychotherapeutic Reiki: A Holistic Body-Mind Approach to Psychotherapy by Richard Curtin Jr. - $3.49 on Kindle Interview with Carie Harling “Clippings.io and Evernote” - YouTube video by Carie Harling October 21, 2015 Clippings.io Evernote Amazon’s kindle.amazon.com retrieval tool for Kindle notes and highlights Moleskine Evernote Smart Notebooks Carie Harling’s “Cheating” post on switching to paper planning tools - March 14, 2013 “Digital Vs Paper Planning” by Carie Harling at Filofax - October 17, 2013 Omnifocus Carie Harling’s “What’s Your Why Not?” site Stochasticity post Content
“Awesome Indies Books (A Criticism of Book Awards and Seals)” by Derek Murphy at CreativeINDIE
Awesome Indies Blue Ink Review Comment Legimi, a book subscription service in Poland Google Books Next Week’s Guest Harry Bingham, author of the Fiona Griffiths mysteries - 1. Talking to the Dead 2. Love Story, With Murders 3. The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths 4. This Thing of Darkness
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Editor of TeleRead Interview starts at 11:26 and ends at 37:11 Even if all the publishers remove DRM from every eBook they sell tomorrow, I would be the vast majority of Amazon Kindle customers would go right on being Amazon Kindle customers, just because it’s so easy to tap the button and start reading the book. News “Amazon Kindle Voyage to be Released November 2015” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - July 7, 2015 “Amazon Top Pick for Contract to Create N.Y.C. Schools’ e-Book Marketplace” by Michele Molnar at Education Week - July 30, 2015 “City partners with Amazon for $30 million e-book contract” by Eliza Shapiro at Capital New York - July 29, 2015 Tech Tips Send to Kindle app for Mac and PC Interview with Chris Meadows “Chris Meadows becomes Editor of TeleRead; Juli Monroe to remain Editor-in-chief” by David Rothman at TeleRead - July 17, 2015 TeleRead articles by Chris Meadows TeleRead articles by Founder David Rothman and Editor-in-chief Juli Monroe Links including “950 million Android phones can be hijacked by malicious text messages” Ars Technica story (scroll down to the fourth item in this post) Calibre eBook management calibre2opds script Baen books Humble Bundles Book Bub (and an even better choice for eBook bargain emails: Stephen Windwalker's BookGorilla) Steam videogames The recently launched TeleRead Podcast, hosted by Chris Meadows TeleRead Podcast interview with author Diane Duane (click on episode 5) - July 25, 2015 Closed Circle Publications, the independent eBook retailer created by authors C. J. Cherryh, Lynn Abbey, and Jane Fancher Author Doranna Durgin’s website Pottermore “Macmillan Parent Company Holtzbrink Abandons DRM in Germany” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - July 20, 2015 Author Earnings Report - May, 2015 Gen Con - July 30 - August 2, 2015 in Indianapolis Amazon Game Studios “Whither the PDA (or iPhone) D&D?” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - January 28, 2009 DriveThruRPG and Paizo Content Awesome Indies book reviews Awesome Indies review of The Ribs and Thigh Bones of Desire by Sandra Hutchinson Comments Amazon PowerFast adapter for Kindle and Fire Prime Music Next Week’s Guest Carie Harling, whose Clippings.io and Evernote video details a terrific way to organize your Kindle notes and highlights
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Author of Let’s Get Digital and Let’s Get Visible Interview starts at 16:56 and ends at 44:39 If you look at stores like Barnes and Noble and Kobo and Apple, I don’t think they’ve even caught up to where the Kindle Store was in 2011 or 2012 yet, let alone approaching where it is now in 2015. I still think they haven’t grasped the core part of Amazon’s philosophy, which is that they will always seek to recommend that they think you are most likely to purchase—not the one that a company has paid a certain amount, so they’ll shove it under your nose. News Amazon’s second-quarter earnings release - July 23, 2015 “Investors React to Amazon’s Shocking Earnings Beat” at Zack.com - July 24, 2014 “Another wake-up call from Amazon as they serve author interests better than publishers have” at The Shatzkin Files - July 23, 2015 About Amazon Follow FAQ from Amazon on anti-trust settlement credits Tech Tip How to use Kindle FreeTime to manage your child’s reading content The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer Interview with David Gaughran Joanna Penn’s interview with David Gaughran (video) at YouTube - January 22, 2012 “The Great Amazon Hysteria… Part 31” by David Gaughran at his blog - June 26, 2015 Author Earnings Open Road Media Content Books by David Gaughran: Mercenary, an historical novel Let’s Get Digital: How to Self-Publish, And Why You Should : Updated Second Edition Let’s Get Visible: How to Get Noticed and Sell More Books Next Week’s Guest Chris Meadows, editor of TeleRead
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Founder and President of IndieReader.com Interview starts at 11:46 and ends at 41:02 It’s very hard to tell a self-published book these days from one that is traditionally published. News David Pogue’s must-see Alexa demonstration and review (video) at Yahoo Tech - July 16, 2015 Tech Tip Amazon page on Cloud Collections Interview with Amy Edelman “Self-publishers flourish as writers pay the tab” by Motoko Rich at The New York Times - January 27, 2009 “Books Gone Wild: The Digital Age Reshapes Literature” by Lev Grossman at Time Magazine - January 21, 2009 Still Alice by Lisa Genova The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry Amanda Hocking’s books at the Kindle Store “How Amazon Saved my Life” by Jessica Park at IndieReader - June 15, 2012 “If You Liked ‘Grey’, You’ll LOVE…” by Keri English at Indie Reader - July 15, 2015 Blue Ink Review Kirkus Reviews “Television That’s Worth Digesting” by Michiko Kakatuni at The New York Times - December 3, 2012 Fifty Shades of Grey and Grey by E. L. James Manless in Montclair by Amy Holman Edelman The Little Black Dress by Amy Holman Edelman Deadly Lies by Chris Patchell YA titles by Abbi Glines Colleen Hoover Jasinda Wilder Content IndieReader lists: bestselling indie titles , art and photo books, zines, and small batch books
12 books that Jeff Bezos hopes to read
Next Week’s Guest David Gaughran, blogger and author of Let’s Get Digital and Let’s Get Visible
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My wife the amazing art quilter and Kindle enthusiast Interview starts at 14:08 and ends at 39:48 A friend of mine said, “How many times have you dropped a Paperwhite in the tub?” And she’s right. I never have. And so at that point I decided that I was just going to hold the Kindle, and if it fell into the tub I would deal with it. News “Half of Net Proceeds Is the Fair Royalty Rate for E-Books” at the Authors Guild - July 9, 2015 “Bread and Roses” by Hugh Howey at The Wayfinder - January 24, 2014 “Opinion: Apple Watch sales plunge 90%” by Brett Arends at MarketWatch - July 8, 2015 “Apple Watch Sales Aren’t Looking So Hot” by Aaron Tilley at Forbes - July 1, 2015 “After crushing rival smartwatch sales, Apple Watch portrayed as doomed by CNBC” by Daniel Eran Dilger at Apple Insider - June 28, 2015 Apple WatchCast episode 18 My 2014 interview with the cofounders of Spritz in TKC 323 Bigger than Black Friday? Amazon Prime Day - July 15, 2015 Prime Music $100,000 Sweepstakes Tech Tip How to disable Kindle Word Wise on your Paperwhite:
- Start at the home screen
- Tap on the menu icon at upper right.
- Tap on Settings.
- Tap on Reading Options.
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Tap on Language Learning.
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Turn Word Wise off. You can also turn off Vocabulary Builder.
Interview with my wife Darlene Goodreads Newsletters (To receive the Goodreads email newsletters, click on your Goodreads Profile page and choose which ones you want.) Authors discussed in the interview: Harry Bingham’s Fiona Griffiths books - 1. Talking to the Dead: A Novel 2. Love Story, With Murders: A Novel 3. The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths - $2.51 on Kindle 4. This Thing of Darkness (available for pre-order for $3.99 with delivery July 30, 2015) Julie Hyzy's White House Chef Mysteries Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs Mystery series Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley J. A. Jance’s Ali Reynolds series and J.P. Beaumont series Dance of the Bones: A J.P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker Novel by J. A. Jance - available for Kindle preorder for $15.99 (!) with delivery on September 8, 2015, price set by the publisher, HarperCollins The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A Novel by Tom Rachman Stephen White’s Alan Gregory series Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire Mysteries Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series and the Bosch Amazon Original Series C J Box's Joe Picket series Lee Child’s Amazon page Content “Reading War and Peace on my iPhone” by Clive Thompson at BookRiot Comments Next Week’s Guest Amy Edelman, founder and president of IndieReader
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Project Manager and TKC Listener Interview starts at 13:52 and ends at 39:03 I have the books that I read, and I read the books that I have. The ones that I collect now are meaningful to me. News “Apple Loses Appeal, E-book Decision is Affirmed” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - June 30, 2015 US Court of Appeals affirmation of verdict against Apple (PDF)- June 30, 2015 Frequently Asked Questions about eBooks lawsuit Amazon press release on Alexa Skills Kit - June 25, 2015 Amazon Opens Alexa Voice Service to Third Party Hardware Makers - July 25, 2015 “Amazon Introduces the Alexa Fund: $100 Million in Investments to Fuel Voice Technology Innovation” - Amazon press release June 25, 2015 Tech Tips Information and download link for new Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation software update Interview with John Sullivan John Sullivan’s favorite mystery writers: Elmore Leonard, Michael Connelly, Tyler Dilts (author of The Pain Scale), Sue Grafton. Other writers mentioned: Rick Bragg, Kurt Vonnegut Kindle First Getting Things Done by David Allen “The 10 Most Cryptic Project Management Expressions” by John Sullivan at Tech Republic - July 7, 2010 Justified on Prime Instant Video The Sopranos on Prime Instant Video Get Carter by Ted Lewis Joyland by Stephen King Still Foolin’ ‘Em by Billy Crystal (Audible) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Books on the Nightstand podcast Content Blinkist.com Next Week’s Guest My wife Darlene
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Amazon’s Senior Vice President - Kindle Interview starts at 10:17 and ends at 42:35 My guess is that if you asked all the publishers with whom we’ve reached agreement in the last year they would tell you that they had to compromise some things they didn’t love. And we’ve had to compromise some things we didn’t necessarily choose on our own. And that’s okay. That’s business. News Amazon Echo aka Alexa - now available to anyone for $179.99 “Amazon echo owners now able to write reviews on Amazon” by Bufo Calvin at the I Love My Kindle blog - June 19, 2015 Amazon Fire Phone - unlocked 32GB $179.00 My Paperwhite 3 video review = June 18, 2015 “Under the Hood of Kindle’s New Typesetting Engine” - my new video at YouTube - June 21, 2015 Tech Tips Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable and What we Can Do About It by Marc Goodman Interview with Russ Grandinetti About Kindle Unlimited Kindle Scout Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi Past interviews with Russ Grandinetti at The Kindle Chronicles Content tech.book(store) at Amazon.com
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Author of Barrio Imbroglio Interview starts at 14:24 and ends at 38:38 There’s an incentive for Amazon on two levels to say, “Hey, let’s try to bring in readers.” And one way of bringing in readers is you get more writers. And so they’re definitely reaching out to Spanish-language authors in America and in Latin Americas to get their work up on Kindle. News “Amazon updates Kindle Paperwhite with a high res screen in India” (video) at Digit - June 18, 2015 Neuer Kindle Paperwhite 3 Test (video in German) - June 19, 2015 Unboxing Kindle Voyage and new Paperwhite 3 (video in Spanish) - June 19, 2015 “Does Anyone Care About Amazon Publishing Contracts?” by Michael Kozlowski at Good EReader - June 19, 2015 Tech Tip Reminder from Andrys Basten that 3G eInk Kindles get 24/7 free eG access to Wikipedia Interview with Daniel Cubias Barrio Imbroglio (An Abraxas Hernandes Mystery Book 1) by Daniel Cubias Books at Amazon.com by Jo Nesbo Daniel Cubias’s blog Telemachus Press Daniel Cubias’s columns at The Huffington Post “Are e-Books a Good Idea for Latino Authors?” by Daniel Cubias at The Huffington Post - June 4, 2015 Open Road Media, publisher of poetry by John Ashbery in eBook format Content “Amazon deal brings 12,000 Marvel comics to the Kindle Store” by Rich McCormick at The Verge - June 19, 2015 “Marvel Renews Agreement with Comixology and Expands to Amazon” at Marvel.com - June 18, 2015 Marvel single issues now available at the Kindle Store Captain America: The First Avenger #1: First Vengeance - free from Marvel Comments Bufo Calvin, creator of the I Love My Kindle blog Tom Semple Next Week’s Guest Russ Grandinetti, Amazon’s senior vice president - Kindle
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Author of The Underwriting
Interview starts at 19:39 and ends at 39:40
I was a first-time novelist; I didn’t have a name at all. So it was a great way to find my audience before I tried to find an agent and a publisher. I think that is such a daunting process for writers, to find someone to pay attention and beyond paying attention to understand their work and let them maintain their vision.
News
“Bezos’s obsession translates to this honor for Amazon” by Andria Cheng at MarketWatch - June 4, 2015
“Up the Amazon with the BS Machine” by Ursala K. LeGuin at Book View Cafe - June 1, 2015
Tech Tips
“I have seen the future of reading on the internet, and it is glorious” by Ezra Klein at Vox - June 11, 2015
Interview with Michelle Miller
The Underwriting by Michelle Miller
Michelle Miller interviewed on Bloomberg (video) - May 29, 2015
“How Serialized Fiction is Rewriting the Book” - at South by Southwest Interactive 2015
Content “29 Books You Should Definitely Bring to the Beach This Summer” by Lincoln Thompson at BuzzFeed Books - June 8, 2015
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Professor at Le Moyne College Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 44:15 If it keeps your attention, and you’re enjoying it, and it’s making you think—that’s the book for you. News “Trade Sales Fell in February” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - June 5, 2014 BEA panel on Publishing in China “China and Publishing: The Best of Times, or the Worst of Times?” by Rachel Aydt at Publishing Perspectives - May 29, 2015 “Shelf 2.0: Neil Strandberg to Join Shelf Awareness” - June 4, 2015 “Neil Strandberg to Leave ABA in July” - June 4, 2015 Russ Grandinetti interviewed on China Central Television May 27, 2015 “Discovery Challenges Mount in a Reader-Driven World” at Digital Book World - May 27, 2015 Tech Tip Version 4.9 of the Kindle for iOS app Interview with Prof. Krystine Batcho “Pros and Cons of Constant Communication” panel - March 13, 2015 at South By Southwest Le Moyne College website Articles by Krystine Batcho at Psychology Today “Nostalgia: A Mental Time Machine” by Krystine Batcho at Psychology Today - May 6, 2014 Spritz reader Books mentioned: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut and anything by Albert Camus. Next Week’s Guest Michelle Miller, author of The Underwriting Congratulations …to Neil Strandberg, named this week Director of Technology and Operations at Shelf Awareness
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Intro Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback, 1993) by Scott McCloud Interviews at Denver Comic Con (Times show when each interview begins) Andy Mithun of the Stubby Shillelaghs (6:25) Critical Fail Kickstarter campaign Clayton Kauffman, 12, of Brush, Colorado (12:20) Dale Roberts of Dale Roberts Comics (13:56) Megan Sullivan, director of communications, Aurora Rise (17:23) “Alex Sullivan, one of 12 Aurora victims, died on 27th birthday” by Ethan Sacks at The Daily News - July 21, 2012 All C’s Collectibles in Aurora, Colorado Barry Sandoval, director of operations-comics, Heritage Auctions (23:05) Recommended graphic novels: Saga, Dark Knight, Mouse, Watchman Wayne Winsett, owner of Time Warp Comics in Boulder, Colorado (25:05) Michael Sheyahshe of Native Americans in Comic Books (28:42) Native Americans in Comic Books: A Critical Study by Michael Sheyahshe Super Indian at ComiXology Native Realities Press Gabe Llanas of Thinking Outside the Long Box podcast Content Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #244 at ComiXology “Amazon Discounts Two ‘Game of Thrones’ Graphic Novels!” at Me and My Kindle - May 29, 2015 Next Week’s Guest Prof. Krystine Batcho of Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, one of my favorite speakers at South by Southwest. I look forward to continuing the conversation we started there about the difference between reading on the Internet and reading books, and other topics that I hope will be of interest to you.
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Authors of The Straight-A Conspiracy Interview starts at 13:10 and ends at 41:52
What the brain science says is that if you’ve learned one thing, you can learn anything. If your brain has a preference right now, it’s just because you’ve been working on that thing a little more. Your brain is not coming into the world ready to be more Englishy than mathy.
News
“What’s The Best Ebook Reader?” at Lifehacker - April 16, 2015
“Five Best Ebook Readers” by Alan Henry at Lifehacker - April 19, 2015
“Most Popular Ebook Reader: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite” by Alan Henry at Lifehacker - April 21, 2015
Kindle Paperwhite
Kindle Voyage
“Turn a $99 Nook Into a Fully Fledged Android Table in Four Easy Steps” by Alan Henry at Lifehacker - February 29, 2012
“Three Suggestions for the Amazon Echo” YouTube video by Norm Gregory - May 15, 2015
Barnes & Nook Simple Touch at Amazon.com
Tech Tips
“Let’s Read PDF Files on the Amazon Kindle Voyage” (video) at Good EReader = March 5, 2015
Interview with Hunter Maats and Katie O'Brien
The Straight-A Conspiracy: Your Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of School and Totally Ruling the World
Straight-A Conspiracy web site
Content Goodreads “Best Crime & Mystery Books” listopia ratings Best Literary Mysteries at Goodreads listopia Best Historical Mysteries at Goodreads listopia Amazon Books editors’ list of 100 Mysteries & Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime Penguin Random House’s browsing area for Mystery & Suspense Mystery and Thriller titles at Open Road Media Outro “A Podcaster’s Passion for EBooks” by Len Edgerly at Open Road Media’s “Feed Your Need to Read” webpage - May 21, 2015 Next Week’s Show I have a ticket to attend the giant Denver Comic Con May 23rd and plan to bring you a collage of interviews and impressions from this third-largest Comic Con in the US. Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.
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Author of Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day Interview starts at 21:13 and ends at 39:30
Becoming aware of shadow work enables us to prune away some of the clutter in our lives. Take, for example, surveys—the inundation of our time with surveys, requests for surveys. It seems you can’t buy anything or go anywhere or receive any service without having a followup survey usually emailed to you to ask you, “How did we do?” And I would just encourage the citizens to throw those away if they don’t feel like writing them. We are not obligated to fill out these surveys, but these organizations are preying on our time and asking us to do it. And that’s the kind of clutter that you can prune away.
News
“Reorder Prime-Eligible Items” with Echo (Amazon info)
My preferred stylus, with microfiber tip - $7.99
Christopher March and Echo announce big news
“Amazon Publishing Marches On” by Jim Milliot with Rachel Deahl at Publishers Weekly - May 8, 2015
“Amazon’s Hit Man” by Brad Stone at Bloomberg Business - January 25, 2012
Little a, Amazon Publishing’s literary fiction imprint
Two Lions, Amazon Publishing’s young readers imprint
“Kobo Launches Free eBook Platform for Southwest Airlines Travelers” at Digital Book World - May 13, 2015
Tech Tips
“Amazon Kindle Fire 1st Generation Benefits from a New Firmware - Download Version 6.3.4” at Softpedia - May 15, 2015
Kindle Fire 1st Generation Software Updates at Amazon.com
Kindle Fire HDX 7” 32 GB with Special Offers (Previous Generation -3rd 2013) - $199.00
Fire HD 6” 16 GB with Special Offers - $119.00
My eBay auction of Fire HD 6” 16 GB and case (ends Tuesday May 19 at 5:50 pm MDT)
Poetic Slimline Case for Fire HDX 7 (2013) - $14.95 at Amazon.com
Amazon Kindle Fire HDX Origami Case - $44.99 at Amazon.com
Fire Keyboard - $59.99
AmazonBasics Bluetooth Keyboard for iOS devices - $25.99
Interview with Craig Lambert
Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day by Craig Lambert
Earlier book (1981) on shadow work by Ivan Illich
Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing by Craig Lambert (1999)
“Our Unpaid, Extra Shadow Work” - op ed piece at The New York Times - October 29, 2011
“Self-Service: A Sign ‘The Robots Have Won?’” radio interview with Craig Lambert for “Here & Now” on WBUR - November 28, 2011
“‘Rise of the Robots’ and ‘Shadow Work’” by Barbara Ehrenreich at The New York Times Sunday Book Review - May 11, 2015
Content Amazon Editors’ Young Adult Book Club Amazon Editors’ YA Book Club group at Goodreads Next Week’s Guests Hunter Maats and Katie O’Brien, coauthors of an indie publishing success story titled The Straight-A Conspiracy: Your Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of School and Totally Ruling the World. Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.
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Director of the Isaacson School for New Media, Colorado Mountain College Presentation starts at 5:32 and ends at 43:55 In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin wrote, “The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet but the one who cannot take a photograph.” I mean could this guy see far ahead, or […]
Author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now Interview starts at 13:37 and ends at 36:56 I remember a long time ago when Timothy Leary saw one of my first books, Cyberia or something, an early book about cyberculture, and he took it and he was moving his finger along the lines, and going “a line, and […]
Founder of Write Our World Interview starts at 19:15 and ends at 39:47 The necessity of writing a book requires that they talk to the elders in their communities or other people who can help them, so it’s really a wonderful language-building, literacy activity. News “Four of the big five have new deals with Amazon […]
Links NMX New Media Expo in Las Vegas Tom Webster of Edison Research Monthly podcast listening statistics from Edison Research – February 15, 2015 Power of Moms podcast Mark Ramsey’s Media Unplugged podcast Libsyn Rocks! Interview with Robert Martin (begins at 3:39, ends at 20:00) Isaacson School of New Media at Colorado Mountain College Article about “the uncanny […]
Director of Content at Wattpad Interview starts at 17:50 and ends at 37:37 I think that Wattpad’s a great place for people to be able to tell their own experience and their own story. We’re seeing really interesting, diverse stories being added to Wattpad from around the world. News Oyster “Oyster Expands Its ‘Netflix For Books Service […]
Co-authors of Transcendence Interview starts at 8:31 and ends at 38:29 As an historical upward swing, people can view all this as ways of increasing our ability to share information and ideas and therefore get smarter. I’m not sure we’re taking advantage of that yet, but maybe we will. –R. U. Sirius News “Amazon adds new […]
Software Quality Engineer in Santa Clara, California Interview starts at 13:06 and ends at 39:32 So if you have Evernote installed on your Fire, then it will be one of the options. You can put it directly into your notebook. It’s not quite as slick as I’d like, but it’s better than copy and paste. […]
Founder and CEO of Pebble Technology Corp. Interview starts at 7:54 and ends at 19:50 What we found is that as long as you’re open, and the watch is an open platform, people will hack on it, people will build. So there’s actually a Windows Phone for Pebble, there’s a Blackberry app. I’ll have to […]
Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 17:05 and ends at 40:13 I think the problem with the written word is that it is so easy to generate and—no disrespect to the best writers out there—but at least poorly constructed sentences are very easy to generate. It means that this is a […]
Editorial Director, Amazon.com Interview starts at 17:17 and ends at 38:50 Dead Wake: Well this is Erik Larson, and if Erik Larson told me somebody had tied their shoes in an interesting way, I think I would read the book. News “Amazon may soon launch a wireless service” (video) – Nicholas Thompson, editor of NewYorker.com, […]
Editor-in-Chief of TeleRead Interview starts at 17:22 and ends at 39:20 If large-screen smartphones were going to replace the tablet, I would assume that I would start seeing people working on their big phones, and I still don’t see it. News “Cory Doctorow Rejoins EFF to Eradicate DRM Everywhere” – Electronic Frontier Foundation release – […]
Co-founder of Blue Ink Review Interview starts at 17:15 and ends at 43:24 The people who are putting out quality books in self-publishing are actually investing quite a lot, because most books really do need editing, no matter whether you self-publish or you don’t. Self-publishers usually can’t afford the level of editing that maybe you’d get […]
Illustrator and Author of You Are (Not) Small Interview starts at 14:32 and ends at 37:56. Chris: Anyone with kids who watches someone read for the first time—I never would have realized how magical—it is one of the greatest experiences that I’ve ever seen, because the world opens up. News “Amazon launches its ebook subscription […]
Author of Mobile Strategies for Digital Publishing Interview starts at 13:21 and ends at 37:37. There may not be a lot of new readers coming into the eReader space, but it’s a device that’s got legs still, despite its apparently sort of old-fashioned and monochrome presence. News Kindle Convert for PC at Amazon.com ($19) “Amazon Echo […]
Author, entrepreneur, maker of ruckuses Interview starts at 4:33 and ends at 14:50. Paper books are going to gradually and painfully and very, very slowly disappear. They’re going to become like LP’s. One by one the bookstores are going to go away, and then one by one the kids that grow up reading all the […]
Author of The Martian Interview starts at 11:39 and ends at 38:29 More people bought it from Amazon than downloaded it for free from my site, which just goes to show you how deep into the market Amazon reaches and how good they are at selling books. That got it up into the Top Sellers […]
Amazon’s senior vice president for Kindle We can all observe the fact that in every single digital media category subscriptions is playing an important role—in music, in movies, in newspapers—you cannot find a digital medium where subscription isn’t a model that succeeds at some level, and I don’t think books will be immune to this. […]
Author of 17 poetry collections recently formatted for eBook readers Interview starts at 12:49 and ends at 37:24. The Internet seems to have changed things for the better. You can’t stop people from looking things up these days. They’re usually doing it in front of you while they’re talking to you. So, even though it’s cheating, it’s resulted […]
Author of Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion Interview starts at 9:20 and ends at 41:50. It takes courage and vigilance and diligence to ask this question of yourself repeatedly: Where am I losing energy? Why am I losing energy? Why do I not feel engaged in life? Which is a lot of what passion […]
Author of The Starling Project Interview starts at 12:16 and ends at 44:00. I don’t have any issue aesthetically with the eBooks like some people do. For me, whatever gets people to read is fantastic. News “eReaders Can Disrupt Your Sleep, and Other Nonsense” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader – December 23, 2014 […]
Author of the Making Book blog Interview starts at 21:05 What I’ve decided is going on in publishing is that genre fiction, however widely you want to define that, sort of entertainment books, are basically going to go down the eBook/indie author road. Of course the big publishers won’t want to give it up, and […]
Editor of The New York Times Book Review Interview starts at 11:41 Many people who bought an eReader of some kind or another will use it for some things and not for others. Some people use it to travel, but at home they like to read a book. Some people use it for genre fiction […]
Co-founder and CEO of BitLit.com Interview starts at 14:02 We do continue to see growth [in eBooks reading] amongst more of the older generation, the Boomer generation, on font size, on convenience. As Boomers retire they do more traveling. They want to travel light, to downsize their houses, they want simplification in their lives. News Moody’s […]
Co-founder and CEO of Goodreads Interview starts at 22:02 The world is really moving fast towards mobile, and Goodreads is no exception. We’ve seen huge adoption of our mobile products this year, and we’ve innovated a lot on our mobile web, particularly our iOS app. Intro The music and blog of my talented niece, Fran Betlyon News […]
Editorial Director at Amazon.com Interview starts at 11:43 There are all kinds of books in the world, and there are all kinds of people in the world, and there are all kinds of things that people would love to judge you for. We all do it, to some extent I suppose. We judge somebody by […]
Author of The Amazon Fire Phone Interview starts at 23:07 I read an interview where some Amazon exec in Europe talked about how they are learning from it, and they’re going to take their lessons and apply it to their next iteration. So that seems to me that there will be another Fire phone out there—and […]
Author of Reset: Psychotherapy & Video Games, 2nd Edition Interview starts at 14:24 I think that kids that don’t get to play video games are missing out on whole strata of ways to negotiate a 21st century high tech world as well as peer relationships. And I don’t think it needs to be a “versus.” I love reading. And I think one of the things that’s really cool about the Kindle […]
Author of The Guide for a Single Man and The Guide for a Single Woman Interview starts at 19:11 It’s a lot of effort to get one book, but two simultaneous books, where you’re timing and syncing everything. It was just a huge challenge for the entire FG Press team, even beyond me writing the books. Show Notes […]
Founder and CEO of Audible, Inc. Interview starts at 8:05 I think we’ve done a lot to change the quality of the performances, and the perception of the performances in the entertainment, and the learning and the retention values and everything that causes people to want to read. Show Notes and Links: News “Amazon Closes Muliti-Year […]
Author of The Dog Stars and The Painter Interview starts at 13:42 Nobody, not even artists, understood art. What speed has to do with it. How much work it takes, year after year, building the skills, the trust in the process, more work probably than any Olympic athlete ever puts in because it is twenty-four hours […]
Co-Founders of Spritz Interview starts at 10:52 We see this as a technology where people are reading on the go. I have the Kindle app on my iPhone, and I read my books on my iPhone that way. I’d love of course to make that Spritzable, and then I would just hold it at times when […]
Twitter Curator of eBook/ePublishing/eLibrary news Interview starts at 14:25 Many of the things that the authors and the publishers complain about are normal, everyday behavior in the chemical industry, in the auto industry, in the telecom industry, and the construction industry, which are industries which I’ve worked on—this is the way business works. The publishing industry […]
Chief eBook Architect at Firebrand Technologies Interview starts at 14:14 I think that, because self-publishing has gotten easier, because the tools have gotten easier to use and there are so many more services available to self-published authors, you can compete directly with the work that’s coming out of these major publishing houses. Show Notes […]
Show Notes and Links: If you use these links to purchase one of the new devices, it will provide Amazon Associates commission revenue to support the podcast without adding to your purchase price. Thanks in advance! – Len Kindle Voyage WiFi – $199 New Kindle – $79 Fire HD6 8 GB – $99 Fire HD7 8 GB – $139 Fire […]
Executive Director of the Colorado Library Consortium Interview starts at 16:26 We could go back as a group of libraries, hundreds of libraries across Colorado, to a Big Five publisher and say, “We’re ready to buy your content directly, and here’s the way it looks: You make your content exposed and available in our marketplace. The […]
Editorial Director of Amazon.com Interview starts at 20:43 On the Amazon book team’s pick for September’s spotlight debut title, Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre: “Books about the war, any war, certainly a war that is current are very, very hard sells to customers. I think people often feel like they don’t want to read it, because they’re […]
Open Road Media’s executive director of consumer engagement Interview starts at 15:13 Who put the “social” in social media? That’s one human being making a connection with another human being—so Bill Gates read someone else’s copy of the book [Business Adventures by John Brooks] a million years ago, and it made an impression. That’s what social media […]
Amazon’s Director of Student Programs Interview starts at 15:59 Everything that’s available on Amazon is available at the Purdue Student Store. The way to think about it is, once you’ve activated the co-branding or entered Purdue mode, you are really experiencing a personalized version of the Amazon site. But the products, selection, and pricing are […]
Author of Born Reading (with daughter Olive) Interview starts at 11:27 I knew then that I had come up with a pretty good mix. I knew she had a print book that she liked, and I knew she had an audiobook that she liked, and I knew she had something on the iPad that she could do […]
Editor of TeleRead Interview starts at 18:34 I think Amazon has done a better PR job. I think that they’re going to end up getting what they want, because I think Hachette needs them more than Amazon needs Hachette. Show Notes and Links: News “Safari Begins Next Chapter as an O’Reilly Media Company” by Andrew Savikas […]
CEO of Safari Books Online Interview starts at 20:55 I don’t have any firsthand knowledge about how things have looked on the Kindle Unlimited side, though it’s certainly notable that for now, at least, I don’t think any of the Big Five trade publishers are participating. Show Notes and Links: News “ComiXology now offers DRM-free […]
Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla Interview starts at 9:23 I don’t think their market [for Fire phone] is people who don’t have a smartphone now. I think it’s people who have some version of an Android phone or an iPhone, and they’re committed Amazon customers. I would expect that 75 percent of their […]
Novelist, Journalist, Author of “I Murdered My Library” Interview starts at 23:05 I was sitting, reading this novel on my Kindle. And I thought, actually, this is a perfect medium for this particular book [In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut], which had a very pared-down writing style. And I did have this very, very eerie sense […]
Creator of TeleRead and LibraryCity Interview starts at 15:48 Everyone, I think, would be better off if we replaced DRM [Digital Rights Management] with either no “protection” at all, or else social DRM, which in this case means imprinting the readers’ identities at the starts of books. The advantage of this is that books would […]
Contracts Attorney and Creator of The Passive Voice blog Interview starts at 22:32 “Predatory pricing” sounds good to people who don’t really understand that law very well. But I don’t see anything in Amazon’s behavior that would support that. I think a predatory-pricing antitrust action would would get kicked out of court, because where are the […]
An 8-year-old Kindle reader Interview starts at 15:56 You can take a photo and put it on the Kindle of yourself. You would never get to do that to a book, probably! Show Notes and Links: News Full video of Jeff Bezos’s Fire Phone presentation on June 18 in Seattle “FAA grounds Amazon’s drone delivery plans” by […]
Dave Limp, Senior Vice President – Amazon Devices Interview starts at 27:17 A good example of a use case on reading, whether it’s the autoscroll in a web page or autoscroll in a book, is on a train. Lots of people in this world commute, and they read with one hand while they’re coming into […]
Senior Vice President – Amazon Kindle Interview starts at 18:20 We have made an experience that has helped people feel actually like they’re getting real value to pay seven, eight, nine, ten bucks for text in the form of bits. And we think that’s actually a tremendous accomplishment. We’re proud that Kindle’s played a role […]
Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla Interview starts at 15:56 Amazon has built this colossus in the retail industry by having the best pricing and the best availability ever imagined. And now what Amazon has done is basically to say that it’s not going to use its powerful marketing tools of price and availability […]
Senior Editor for Literary Fiction at Amazon Publishing Interview starts at 10:22 One of the things when I was teaching is I would have these students who had a lot of promise, and I would encourage them. I would try to find magazine editors or agents for them on occasion. But what if I could […]
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My Wife, Darlene, and the Yorkie Claire at Ocean Park, Maine It depends on how you read. I think the basic Kindle is perfect if you don't need that light. I'm not sure that I would make the change if it wasn't for the light. Show Notes and Links: News Amazon takes top spot in [...]
Darlene and I returned last night to Boston after a storm-extended stay on St. John, USVI. Thank you, Blizzard of 2013! We have been going to Maho Bay Camps together for 20 years, and her first visit there was 30 years ago, so we are both sad that this is the eco-resort's last season. Maho's [...]
Author of The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing…and Love Interview Starts at 4:55 Fear is going to be part of all of our lives. But there is a way to relate to it differently and more skillfully, and I know I will be learning about it the rest [...]
I just spotted this promotion of today's one-day free price for a well-done guide to the Kindle Paperwhite by author Shelby Johnson. The title is Kindle Paperwhite User Manual: Guide to Enjoying Your E-Reader, and it will return to the regular price of $2.99 at the end of today. I'm guessing that means midnight Pacific time, so if [...]
Vice President for Editorial and Content Innovation Semi-Linear, creator of the Citia app Interview Starts at 22:16 What we're doing at Semi-Linear with our Citia app is partnering with big publishers like HarperCollins, Hachette, and Penguin and saying, "Let us take a crack at some of your interesting and best-selling science and technology titles, [...]
In this video, you will find out which of the 23 entrants in the Kindle Fire Sweepstakes is our winner. With encouragement from Darlene, our Yorkie Claire actually selected the winning entry from my Harvard cap. The decision of the canine judge is final! If you can't watch the video and want to know right [...]
This morning I am doing final preparation on 32 donated Kindle Keyboards for shipment to Marines aboard the USS Germantown. If I've done my Googling correctly, that's a photo of the ship above. It gives me a personal thrill to be sending our first E-Books for Troops Kindles to a ship, because my father served [...]
I have interviewed scores of authors about their books for the Kindle Chronicles podcast, but I can't remember a book that has excited me as much as the one that you will hear about on next week's show, TKC 236. The author is Jaimal Yogis, and his new book is The Fear Project: What Our Most [...]
Vice President / Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and author of the forthcoming Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation Interview Starts at 11:46 Trying to sue your way through into the future has not worked so far, and I think that's what the book publishers learned. They could very easily have dug in their [...]
I finished Stephen King's Kindle Single, Guns, over lunch. It's a highly original take on the debate over gun control, so I don't think it was fair of me to dismiss it in the previous post as a "rant." Some of the writing is excessively voiced, in my opinion, but the case he makes rests on [...]
The press release announcing Stephen King's new 99-cent Kindle Singles essay, "Guns," emphasizes how fast a major author can get his or her ideas into wide distribution because of eBook technology and platforms. "King finished this essay last Friday morning, and by that night we had accepted it and scheduled for publication today," Kindle Singles [...]
I remember that one of the first things I noticed about the Kindle Fire HD was how much better the text-to-speech voice was on it, compared with text to speech on the Kindle Touch. The voice was more fluid, the phrasing easier to listen to. Today Amazon announced that it is purchasing the company that [...]
Amazon today announced that the Kindle Paperwhite WiFi and 3G models and the basic Kindle are available to customers in Canada at the Amazon.ca site. In addition, Canadian customers can now access the Canada Kindle Store directly from their Kindles. Click here for the full press release. The E Ink Kindles will also be available [...]
Start times for interviews: Jeremy Greenfield - 6:27 Mike Shatzkin - 8:46 Michael Tamblyn (Kobo) - 7:14 Heather Severson - 8:22 Paul Biba - 17:30 Michael David Burleigh (OverDrive) - 24:05 Show Notes and Links: Digital Book World Digital Book World conference agenda My live blog coverage of sessions on the following topics: Obama campaign digital director [...]
Last panel at Digital Book World is named "Libraries: More Important than Ever for Discovery." The moderator is Barabara A. Genco, manager, special projects, Library Journal. Panelists are Stephanie Anderson, head of readers advisory, Darien Public Library; Skip Dye, VP and director, Library and Academic Sales and Marketing, Random House; George Coe, president of Library [...]
This panel is titled "Making Content Searchable, Findable, and Shareable: Tools and Best Practices to Improve Discoverability." Panelists are Matt MacInnis, CEO of Inkling; Linda Holliday, CEO of Semi-Linear; Patricia Payton, senior director, publisher relations and content development, RR Bowker; Gary Price, co-founder and editor, Library Journals. Moderator is Neal Goff, president of Egremeont Associates. [...]
This panel at Digital Book World's conference is titled "The Evolving Author-Publisher Relationship: how Publishers Are Powering-and Empowering-Authors Today." The moderator is Peter McCarthy of McCarthy Digital. Panelists are Carolyn Pittis of HarperCollins, Nina Von Moltke of Random House, and Jennifer Weltz of Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency. Click on the title of this post [...]
Mike Shatzkin moderates the final plenary session at Digital Book World. The panelists are Chantal Restivo Alessi, chief digital officer at HarperCollins; Simon Lipskar, president of Writers House; Rebecca Smart, CEO of Osprey Group, and Michael Cader of Publishers Lunch. Click on headline of this post to see my live blog updates.
Next up, Sharon Lubraro , general manager and VP at Bowker, and Len Vlahos, executive director at Book Industry Study Group (BISG). Click on headline of this post to see my updates.
Good to hear from Barnes & Noble today at Digital Book World. Here is what Jim Hilt, VP of eBooks at B&N has to say about discovery. Click on headline of this post to see my live blog updates.
Peter Hildick-Smith is founder and CEO of the Codex Group. He is talking about how people find books. "We talk to book buyers all day long." Click on the headline of this post to see the live updates.
Michael Tomblyn, chief content officer at Kobo is next at Digital Book World. Click on headline of this post to see updates.
Hugh Howey, author of WOOL, and Kristin Nelson, agent at Nelson Literary Agency, interviewed by Mike Shatzkin at Digital Book World in New York City. Click on the headline of this post to see live updates.
Day 2 of the DBW conference begins with a survey by Writer's Digest of thousands of authors. The presenter is Phil Sexton, publisher and community leader at Writer's Digest. To see the live-blog entries as I write them, be sure to click on the headline of this post.
I'm gearing up for the final session of Day One at the Digital Book World conference in New York City. Teddy Goff, digital director for Obama for America, this morning gave an overview of how the campaign used social media to find voters and get them to the pools. His father, it turns out, has [...]
Hello from the New York Hilton, where the Digital Book World conference is under way. I will live blog the sessions this morning, featuring presentations by Mike Shatzkin, James McQuivey and Teddy Goff, digital director for the Obama campaign. To see the live blog posts, you will need to click on the headline of this [...]
I plan to live blog here for the upcoming sessions at the Digital Book World conference here in New York. To see the live updates, you will have to click on the headline for this post - the updates do not appear if you have navigated to the Kindle Chronicles home page. This morning's sessions [...]
YouTube viewer BobbyKempBigBand has asked how the Kindle Fire HD looks in sunlight as a reading device, so I did a comparison of it with the Paperwhite yesterday morning in bright Denver morning light. As you can see, the Fire reflects images much more than the Paperwhite. However, I was surprised to see that, depending [...]
Note from Len: I am pleased to pass along this email from my friend Jean Remple on the topic of how to brew a perfect pot of tea. When I told Darlene that I wanted to buy two porcelain pots she informed me that she already has two, and she agreed to let me use [...]
I want to highlight the following comment that I received this morning from MitchM regarding my deep Kindle reading in a salt room this week: Wow, what a cool room, made entirely of salt. Probably very therapeutic for the human respiratory system. But kind to the inner workings of our beloved electronic devices? Not so [...]
Author of The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? Interview Starts at 21:15 Walking through Union Square Market in New York or in an airport, no one comes up to me and says, "I read Free Prize Inside-it increased sales of Clorox by two percent" and then gives me a hug…not even in my dreams. I'm [...]
(Cross Post from E-Books for Troops) Incoming Kindles in Denver awaiting preparation for shipment to Troops overseas During 2012, we distributed 282 Kindles to U.S. military units deployed overseas, mostly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our goal for 2013 is to increase the number of Kindles distributed during the year to 300. Last [...]
The home screen of my Kindle Paperwhite comprises a single page (see above.) Hidden in my collections are three novels, two inspirational books, eight nonfiction books or articles, and one volume of poetry. That's it. Everything else, all 856 items, resides in my Amazon archive in the cloud. I used to have lots of pages on my [...]
Is it really going to take a year for me to read a single book? Apparently so, when the book is War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I purchased my 99-cent Kindle copy on February 16, 2012, and I am 79 percent through the novel. I read it at night, when I am trying to fall [...]
First, I want to thank Kindle Chronicles listener Guven Witteveen for his email recommending that Darlene and I take a tour of the Celestial Seasonings plant just up the road in Boulder. We drove there today in time for the 11 a.m. tour. I am still a tea drinker, and I bought a box of Tension [...]
If you are a book lover who prefers an E Ink device to a tablet, I bet it's because there are fewer distractions on a Kindle Paperwhite 3G or other dedicated eReader. I feel the same way. I love my Kindle Fire HD and iPad for zipping around the Internets like a waterbug on a [...]
I have started reading a new book by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch titled APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur - How to Publish a Book and it looks terrific. I have been a big fan of Kawasaki's ever since I saw him on stage at South by Southwest in 2009 when he interviewed Chris Anderson, former editor [...]
A month ago I switched from coffee to tea. Darlene and I were at a cooking class taught by Warren Kramer in Brighton, Mass. As an aside, Warren made a statement that nudged me to action. All it took were four simple words. Here they are, perhaps arriving on a day that will nudge you, [...]
Shantanu Bala, creator of Ebook Glue, a new tool for creating eBooks Interview Starts at 18:15 A lot of writers are already formatting their content and arranging their content for their blogs and for their websites. To me, it doesn't really make sense why they should have to re-do that entire process for another device. It [...]
Garrett Riley, creator of A Tech Grab Bag Interview Starts at 16:21 The great thing (about Kindle FreeTime Unlimited) is that you can set time limits. I know a lot of parents listening to this agree with this: Once you hand them the device, it's like it goes into a time warp. You can tell [...]
David Lynn, editor of The Kenyon Review Interview Starts at 18:16 What I realized a couple of years ago about my mission with The Kenyon Review is not to make money but to have the great work we publish read by as many people around the world as possible. And so I use a variety of [...]
Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director, Digital Book World Interview Starts at 17:19 I think publishers right now are focused more on their authors and more on authors in general than they have been in a little while, because they realize that they're not the only game in town any more. Aside from competing with each other [...]
Today only, Amazon is selling the Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ for $50 off. Click here for details. You simply enter promotional code FIREHD89 at checkout. There is a limit of one per customer, U.S. customers only. The discount is valid on all versions of the Kindle Fire HD 8.9″. So that includes the 16GB model which normally [...]
Click Here to see the video. 1. How to get the Kindle for Microsoft 8 App on your Microsoft Surface Store -> Search for Kindle -> Install -> Register to your Amazon account 2. What you can do on Surface, iPad and Fire HD 8.9” Access books in cloud – Whispersync to last place read [...]
I've had a ball playing with the Microsoft Surface, which I like quite a lot. Any time a gadget forces me to learn a new interface, I get excited. I'm not tempted to replace my 11-inch MacBook Air with this contender, but I am impressed. For this video, I focused on reading with the Surface [...]
Cross-Post of my Kindle Nation Daily Contributing Editor's Column November 30, 2012 A blind alley is closed at one end. It leads nowhere. Why on earth would you ever want to go down one? Russ Grandinetti (photo at right), Amazon’s Vice President of Kindle Content, puts it this way: “We like going down blind alleys, [...]
Evan Ratliff, cofounder, CEO and editor of Atavist Interview starts at 18:53 We publish through the Kindle Singles program, usually. Our stories are all nonfiction. They are between 5,000 and 30,000 words, and they generally cost about $1.99….By nonfiction narrative we usually mean stories that are either some sort of adventure or mystery-some set of [...]
News - 1) Amazon announces record Kindle sales on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. 2) Just in time for the holidays, a $1.5 million bonus is added for Kindle Direct Publishing authors enrolled in KDP Select. 3) Click here to vote for Worldreader.org in the Chase American Giving Awards. The deadline is Tuesday, December 4. Worldreader is [...]
Amazon today served up a jolly seasonal bonus for Kindle Direct Publishing authors who are taking advantage of the Kindle Select program. At midnight Seattle time, the company announced that it will pay an additional $1.5 million to participating authors in the three-month period from December through February. The bonus payment, available to authors who [...]
(Cross Post of my Kindle Nation Daily Contributing Editor's Column) November 23, 2012 The general manager of Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, remembers two women who came into the store and said, “We’d like to talk to your children’s specialist about what books we should buy for our granddaughter for her Kindle.” “I took [...]
News - This week marked the fifth anniversary of the introduction of the first Kindle. Five years later, The Los Angeles Times reports on a prediction that the Kindle Fire HD will outsell Apple's iPad mini by a margin of two to one. Tech Tip - You won't find a Kobo app at Amazon's Apps for Android [...]
(Cross Post of my Kindle Nation Daily Contributing Editor's Column) But for eBooks, war fatigue might have kept Brian Mockenhaupt from publishing a story that should never be forgotten. A former Army infantryman who served two tours with the 10th Mountain Division in Iraq, Mockenhaupt is a contributing editor at Reader’s Digest and Esquire and [...]
News - Is the Kindle adding $9 billion to Amazon's market valuation? I hope so!
Tech Tip - How to offer your blog to the Kindle Store for subscriptions. Thanks to Charles Hugh Smith , author of Weblogs & New Media: Marketing in Crisis, for the question.
Interview - Leslie Nicoll, an author of The Amazon Kindle FAQ and a leading light at the Kindle Boards forum, answers questions everyone has about the Kindle. She also owns an editorial services business, Maine Desk.
Quote - From Cash Magazine, a 2009 economic forecast from one of the rare analysts who foretold the crash.
Comments - Will DeLamater, Steven Schwindt, Mary, Karen, Rebecca, Bob Cope, Paul Higginbotham, Linda Hopkins, Joe D. Clark and a really great Tweet from Coleenis.
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Next week's guest will be podcasting pioneer Michael Geoghegan, who is a Kindle enthusiast and now a Kindle author, since the second edition of his excellent Podcast Solutions book is available in Kindle edition.
News - My own exclusive scuttlebutt which leads me to believe Amazon will start shipping the new version this month, ahead of the official announcement in February.
Tech Tip - Ever wonder how much further you have to read before reaching the end of a chapter? This tip will help you find out.
Interview - Mike Elgan, widely read tech blogger and columnist, who puts the Kindle's phenomenal success in perspective and looks ahead to huge profits for Amazon from the Kindle. (Part 1 of the interview is in this podcast, and part 2 follows in a Kindle Chronicles EXTRA.)
Quote - from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Downloaded from MobileRead
Comments - Rebecca, Nicholas Schutz,and Linda Hopkins (Amazon's Best of 2008 List)
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Next week's interview: Leslie Nicoll, author of The Amazon Kindle FAQ.
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The second half of my interview on Dec. 31, 2008 with tech blogger and columnist Mike Elgan.
Part 1 is contained in episode 24 of the Kindle Chronicles.
News - New subscriptions available for the Kindle: USA Today and Narrative Magazine. Also, new Kindle market intelligence from The New York Times. A million Kindles sold? Not according to Mark Mahaney in August.
Tech Tip - How to put content on your Kindle in the middle of Wyoming. Click here to see a map of Whispernet coverage.
Interview - Starbuck, the online name for an Army Captain, Blackhawk helicopter pilot, blogger and Kindle enthusiast serving in Irag. Check out his Wings Over Iraq blog. What's on his Kindle: Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max, Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
Kindle Quote - From Barack, Inc. by Barry Libert and Rick Faulk.
Comments - from Dorian Nisinson, Dan Meyers, Linda Hopkins, and John B.
News - Rand McNally introduces a Road Atlas specifically designed for the Kindle. Featuring a brief telephone interview with Joel Minster, Rand McNally's senior vice president and chief cartographer.
Tech Tip - Will DeLamater of EduKindle creates a sort of Kindle App - Notepad.
Interview - Joshua Tallent of Kindle Formatting talks about how to format books for the Kindle, Digital Rights Management, and other e-topics. Josh will be teaching a session in February at the O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference. An example of his formatting work is Lost Sonnets of Cyrano de Bergerac. The Medialoper's encounter with Jeff Bezos is described here.
Quote - from Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson.
Comments - Dan Meyer, John B, and Linda Hopkins.
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Next week's interview, via Skype: Starbuck, the online name of an Army Captain on active duty in Iraq who always has his Kindle with him, the better to have something to read when unexpected wait times occur.
News - Publisher's Weekly puts Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos on its cover as "Person of the Year."
Tech Tip - No worries, yet, about ever being charged 10 cents when you convert a .pdf or other document to Kindle format for your Kindle via email.
Interview - Steve Shaw, creator of the Kindlelicious blog . What's on his Kindle: Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengetsu, Spin Control by Chris Moriarty, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, The Prince by Machiavelli.
Quote - words of love from The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy. From the MobileReference Classic Books Collection.
Comments - Donna Smith via Linda Hopkins, Tali from Israel, Dan Meyers, Greg Keck, a Twitterer named Jason Packham, and a blogger named Munsey.
Music by "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.
News - Via Mike Elgan and HotelChatter.com , we learn that the famed Algonquin Hotel in New York City is loaning Kindles to guests. Jan Zlendich of The Kindle Reader blog notes that 46 of the 50 titles on Bookmarks Magazine's list of the 50 best books of 2008 are available for the Kindle.
Tech Tip - Amazon Mobile on the iPhone/iPod Touch is pretty neat, but you can't use it yet to order a Kindle book. For the adventurous - how to update your customized photo screensavers on the Kindle. (Thanks to MobileRead forum member Phuocle for the steps.)
Interview - Will DeLamater, creater of the EduKindle blog, has evidence that the Kindle is making inroads in schools. Plus interesting educational developments for the Kindle in Utah and at the Harvard Medical School.
Quote - The beginning of The Dip by Seth Godin. How to be a successful quitter.
Comments - Karen, Linda Hopkins, and Dan.
Upcoming interviews: Steve Shaw, creator of the Kindlelicious blog; Joshua Tallent of Kindle Formatting, and Capt. Crispin J. Burke, who is Kindling while on assignment in Iraq.
News: The Kindle is sold out just in time for Christmas. Will the one I ordered today turn out to be a Kindle 2.0? Should Amazon say so? Also, a secret New York Times memo reports more than 10,000 Kindle NYT subscriptions (thanks to Abhi for the tip), and Kindle NowNow is GoneGone.
Tech Tip: Try pdfdownload.org for a one-click way to move web content to your Kindle. The results won't always look as good as this, though.
Interview: Linda Hopkins, an engaged and engaging listener of the podcast from southern California. Her first Kindle read was Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She subscribes to the following blogs: Amazon Daily (free), Reuters Health (99 cents a month) and Reuters Top Stories ($1.99).
Quote: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Comments: Karen Hagglund and Dan.
News - In a TechFlash Q&A, Ian Freed says no to video on the Kindle.
Tech Tip -Igor Skochinsky's motherload of Kindle tech stuff.
Interview - Sriram K. Peruvemba, Vice President of Marketing at E Ink Corporation, interviewed at the company's headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. The audio podcast contains excerpts of our conversation, and this video has the full interview.
Quote - "Senior Moment" by Dana Milbank of The Washington Post.
Comments - Audio from Peggy, text from Julie Booth.
News: Thanks to listener Linda Hopkins, we learn from Amazon that Kindle samples are NOT designed to timeout.
Tech Tip: How to put [20,000] 2,000 classics on your Kindle using MobileReference (thanks to Nick for suggesting this one) -
1. Connect your Kindle to your computer with USB cable.
2. In your computer’s web browser, go to MobileReference
3. In the main area of the web site, not the column on the left, scroll down to the section titled “Fiction Books.”
4. In the last subcategory of that section, titled “Collection:”, click on “Classic Books Collection. Over 2,000 complete works. Only $19.99.”
5. For use on the Kindle, it doesn’t seem to matter which platform you choose; I’ve just tested the “Desktop/Notebook/Tablet PC” platform, and that worked fine. So in the row for “Desktop/Notebook/Tablet PC” platform, go over one column to the “Trial Version” column and click “Download Now.”
6. You will be asked to enter your email address, so do that and then click on the green “Download Application” button.
7. On the next screen, click on the live link which says “Click here to download: Best-Selling Classic Books Collection. Over 2000 complete works. FREE biographies and works in trial”
8. From here, what you see will depend on whether you are using a PC or Mac, but the essentials are the same as with any other download from the Internet that you do on your computer. For the Mac, I see a dialog box saying, “You have chosen to open classicstrial103.zip” which is a zipped file containing numerous separate items. I click on “OK” to open it with Stuffit Expander. However your computer works, your goal is to be able to find a folder on your hard drive titled “ClassicsTrial”. Mine shows up in a Downloads folder.
9. Open a window that shows you the “ClassicsTrial” folder you just downloaded, and then open that folder so you can see all the items in it, beginning with “AlexandreDumasDEMO.prc” and ending with “WilliamShakespeareDEMO.prc.”
10. Open another window that shows the Kindle icon, which you should see because your Kindle is attached to the computer by the USB cable.
11. Doubleclick the Kindle icon, so you can see five folders, including the one labeled “Documents.”
12. Drag the “ClassicsTrial” folder into the “Documents” folder of your Kindle. I just tried this on my MacBook Air, and it worked fine – I assume the same process will work on a PC, but if you run into trouble you might try selecting all the individual books in the “ClassicsTrial” folder and dragging them in one big bunch into the “Documents” folder.
13. Once you have the “ClassicsTrial” contents in the Documents folder of your Kindle, safely eject the Kindle icon and then unplug the USB cable.
14. Checking on your Home screen, you’ll now see about three added pages of demo versions of classic books.
15. I’m pretty sure that once you sample some of the demo books, you’ll want to spend the $19.99 to purchase the actual collection. I’m going to do that now but make sure they go to my SD card, to keep my main Kindle.
16. The purchase process via Handango is routine, and you don’t have to wait for a registration code. The folder is called “ClassicsFull” . It’s about 115 megabytes in size, so even with my speedy Comcast connection (31 megabits per second when I was doing the download last weekend) – it took a while for it all to load to my computer, and then another few minutes for it to load from the computer to the Kindle.
17. I’ve got a 1 GigaByte SD card in my Kindle. After adding 2,000 classics I’ve got 838 MB left, or room for another 16,000 classics on a storage device that cost me less than $20.
18. One thing I don’t like is that all these new titles appear in my Home pages on the Kindle, even though I put them on the SD card. At least they are gathered by author, so you click on an author to see all the titles he or she wrote.
19. All in all this is a great resource, and I want to thank Nick for suggesting that I follow the process for this week’s Tech Tip.
Interview: Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief and publisher of MIT's Technology Review, a rising star in the Kindle Store.
Quote: "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekhov.
Comments: Bob Boyken, Jim Brooks, Gail Scott, Julie Booth and Will D.
News: Case of the disappearing Kindle Store sample, from Joe Wikert's Kindleville blog.
Tech Tip: From David Emberson's Kindle Cookbook, a clever keyboard shortcut that zooms you through books 1/20th at a time.
Interview: My wife's opinion of her Kindle improves during her first month of use, despite her biggest fear coming true. NOTE: If you know some great sources for contemporary mystery writers for the Kindle, please let me know, so I can pass them along to Darlene.
Quote: from a book about Afghanistan being read this week by the President-Elect, Ghost Wars by Steve Coll.
Comments: Do you read YOUR Kindle during takeoff and landing? And, good news on book sales from David Emberson.
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News: The Motley Fool asserts that Oprah has saved Amazon.
Tech Tip: What are those white boxes to the right of some items on the home screen?
Interview: Dave Emberson, author of The Kindle Cookbook: How to Do Everything the Manual Doesn't Tell You.
Quote: Technology Review's editor Jason Pontin has some advice for the next president.
Comments: Stephen Windwalker, Kesler Woodward, and Linda Hopkins.
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Kindle News: Oprah gets behind the Kindle in a big way, including a $50-off coupon good till November 1st. Also, Amazon reports that 10 percent of its total book titles sold are in Kindle format.
Tech Tip: From The Kindle Cookbook by David Emberson, how to put the MobileRead guide on your Kindle for free book downloads. (Other good Kindle guides mentioned: Decoding the Kindle by Jim Cheshire and Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle by Stephen Windwalker.
Interview: Evan Schnittman, vice president of business development at Oxford University Press, speculates on why November 19, 2008 may be another big day in the history of the Kindle.
Kindle Quote: Don Juan by Lord Byron, in French.
Comment: Linda Hopkins finds the most expensive book available at the Kindle Store. Be careful before you click on "purchase".....
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Interview: Abhi, creator of the Amazon Kindle, Books and Amazon News Blog and the Kindle Social Network for Book Lovers, talks to me from London and details how you can win a free Kindle if you join and participate in his social network before the end of October.
Kindle Quote: The Nigger of Narcissus by Joseph Conrad.
Kindle Comment: A promising overture from someone at Amazon...
Kindle News: Faked Photos or a real look at the Kindle 2?
Tech Tip: A recent newbie (me) walks you around the Kindle Korner Yahoo group.
Interview: Laurel Hicks, a moderator of Kindle Korner. On her Kindle: War and Peace by Tolstoy, Works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov from MobileReference and the blogs Opinionated and An Unamplified Voice, an opera blog.
Kindle Quote: Mmm-good: Campbell Soup fares pretty well in the financial debacle. An article in Investor's Business Daily.
Comments: Linda Hopkins, Jimmy Buffet video, and a good correction from Greg.
Kindle News: Forbes gets it wrong on the iPhone v. the Kindle.
Tech Tip: How to find out there's no Whispernet in Missoula, Montana. Click here for Sprint coverage map.
Interview: My wife, Darlene, opens her Kindle and starts using it.
Quote: The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield.
Comments: Bob Boyken, Sang-Won Kim, Heather Hollick, and Linda.
Kindle News: Amazon passes a milestone with 180,000 titles available in the Kindle Store.
Tech Tip: A light for reading your Kindle in bed when your spouse is trying to sleep.
Interview: Jim Cheshire, author of Decoding the Kindle.
Kindle Quote: from Spirit House, a Vincent Calvino Novel by Christopher G. Moore.
Kindle Comments: audio from Bryan Person, comments on the show notes page from Greg Pyles and Paul.
Kindle News: Forbes reports on two more would-be Kindle Killers from Plastic Logic and iRex Technologies.
Tech Tip: My 79-year-old mother's clever idea for printing a Kindle page didn't pan out, but I did learn about the expanded location tool from Jim Cheshire's new book, Decoding the Kindle.
Interview: Andy Ihnatko, technology columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.
Kindle Quote: from McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking about Hope by the late David Foster Wallace and Jacob Weisberg.
Kindle Comments: Rusty from the show notes page and an audio comment from Paul Higginbotham.
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Photo of Andy Ihnatko at MacWorld 2008 by Nonie from Melburne, Australia. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. via Wikipedia
Kindle News: Kindle snags exclusive for new biographies of Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain. Jim Cheshire's Decoding the Kindle is released.
Tech Tip: How to highlight a section of text which begins on one screen and ends on the next. Also, Jan Zlendich's tip for helping your Kindle make it home if you leave it somewhere.
The "What's on Your Kindle Interview?": Heather Hollick of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with a clever way to move lots of reading material from the web to the Kindle as .pdf files. UPDATE: Here are some items on Heather's Kindle:
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
The Huffington Post blog.
Kindle Quote: Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker.
Kindle Comments: Al, and Bryce Craig of Santa Barbara, California.
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Kindle News: Andy Ihnatko's possibly prophetic piece in Macworld titled, "How Apple Could Make e-books work and why Steve Jobs could do what Jeff Bezos hasn't."
Tech Tip: How to put your Kindle on cruise control. (Hat tip to chelsea etitameh on the Kindle Korner Yahoo Group. )
The "What's On Your Kindle?" Interview: Jan Zlendich of Tucson, Arizona, created The Kindle Reader blog while she waited for her Kindle to arrive last year. In our phone interview on September 3, 2008, she gives a librarian's literate view of the Kindle. Among the items on her 55 pages of Home screen are the following: Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Daniel Klein, "Shade" a short story by Stephen Gould available for free download in Kindle format (Mobipocket) from Tor, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 2,730 Pages by Ammon Shea, and subscriptions to Time, Asimov's Science Fiction, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the blog TVNewser .
Kindle Quote: from The Nigger of Narcissus by Joseph Conrad, a free download from Feedbooks. Beginning at Locations 409-14.
Kindle Comments by Bruce Kessel (who linked to NYT story putting end to rumor of new Kindle this year), dorianN and Patricia Hawn.
Music for my podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.
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Kindle News: We have fresh rumors of new student-oriented Kindle models coming as soon as September from Andrea James of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Peter Burrows of Business Week's The Tech Beat. This led John C. Dvorak to increase the warmth of his Kindle assessment compared with his initial scoffing on This Week in Tech just after the Kindle was introduced. (Note to social-network savvy Amazon exec if you're listening to this podcast: feel free to call me at 303-919-7187 if you'd like to arrange for The Kindle Chronicles to evaluate a review unit of the any new Kindle...)
LATE-BREAKING REPORT WHICH DIDN'T MAKE THE PODCAST: Via Jim Cheshire, I see the New York Times today is quoting Craig Berman, Amazon’s chief spokesman, as saying, "One thing I can tell you for sure is that there will be NO new version of the Kindle this year. A new version is possible sometime next year at the earliest.” I hope that's just smoke.
Tech Tip: Adrienne Cousins on the Yahoo Kindle Korner group has posted several bookmark files which make it much easier to reach web sites on the Kindle. Also, Jim Cheshire of DecodingTheKindle recommends Skweezer to format blogs for quicker and cleaner viewing on the Kindle. Hat tip to Stephen Windwalker for suggesting Adrienne's bookmarks.
The "What's on Your Kindle?" Interview: My guest this week is Randal L. Schwartz of Stonehenge. We met at a photography workshop last week conducted by Chris Marquardt of the Tips from the Top Floor podcast. Randal recommends Baen Books as a great source of inexpensive quality books for the Kindle, especially in the science fiction category. A favorite of his is James P. Hogan.
Kindle Quote: "Fear Oratory Will Be Obama's Undoing" by Edward Luce.
Kindle Comments by Bob Boyken, RobinTX and Steven Schwindt.
Music for my podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.
The "What's on Your Kindle?" interview this week is with Joe Wikert, creator of the Kindleville blog and vice president & executive publisher within the Professional Trade Division of John Wiley & Sons. Here is some of what's on Joe's Kindle:
Subscriptions to The New York Times and Time Magazine
Samples of Predictably Irrational, Obsessive Branding Disorder, and Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office
Kindle News - The Financial Times arrives! The EFF asks tough questions of the publishing industry. Seth Godin gets skeptical.
Kindle Tech Tip - QuickFics points us to EchoDitto's fix for partial RSS feeds. And the difference between Previous Page and Back.
Kindle Quote - I can't believe I'm quoting this book...
Kindle Comments - dorianN tells how her Kindle saved her from what could have been a very sad fate. Heather Hollick wins a prize for saving a podcaster from laziness.
Music for my podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.
This is the .mp3 version of Episode 4, which features a "What's on Your Kindle?" interview with Bill Bulger, 74, in active retirement after serving for 17 years as president of the Massachusetts State Senate and seven years as president of the University of Massachusetts.
This week's "What's on Your Kindle?" Interview is with Bill Bulger, 74, a legendary Massachusetts politician from South Boston who served 17 years as president of the state Senate and 7 years as president of the University of Massachusetts. We visited at his home, and afterward his wife, Mary, revealed exactly why she bought her husband a Kindle. His book is not in Kindle version yet - click on the link to let his publisher know you'd like that changed!
UPDATE: Two items on Bill Bulger's Kindle are Change Your Brain, Change Your Lifeby Daniel G. Amen and Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard.
Kindle News: The financial analyst heard round the Kindlesphere-reverberations from a Citi analyst's doubling of his earlier estimate of Kindle sales this year and NYT perspective here; Amazon adds a way to ping publishers who are not yet on the Kindle train (an item from Cush), and how 17 syllables might win you a Kindle.
Tech Tip: Do's and Don'ts with an SD card, including screenshot tip from Stephen Windwalker. More on using FeedBooks for free RSS feeds.
Kindle Quote: from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beacher Stowe
Kindle Comment: Cory in Fla
New contest: the first person whose audio comment I use on the next episode will receive a $10 gift certificate at the Amazon Store. Phone in your coment to 206-666-2713 or attach an .mp3 file to email to PodChronicles@gmail.com. I also welcome text comments here or at the email address. Thanks for listening!
Special audio extra: Bill Bulger singing a solo with the Boston Symphony.
This is the .mp3 version of this week's episode featuring a "What's on Your Kindle?" interview with author Stephen Windwalker.
Kindle News:
Electronic newspaper readers in Germany and France, as well Dave Lester's Treeless Systems project in Denver that I profiled in a podcast two years ago.
A rosy view of the Kindle's future sales and one not so rosy.
One thing NOT to do with your Kindle.
A Free Webinar, "Leveraging the Kindle - How to maximize the Kindle's benefits to your readers and your business," by Joe Wikert set for August 21, 2008 at 11 a.m. ET. Joe is author of the Kindleville blog.
Kindle Tech Tip:
How to use FeedBooks to load RSS news feeds onto your Kindle for free.
The "What's on Your Kindle Interview?" - Stephen Windwalker, author of the current Number 10 Kindle seller, How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email & Over 100 Pages of Other Cool Tips (The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle. I taped the interview after lunch on August 6, 2008, at Casablanca in Harvard Square, Cambridge. Steve describes his experience writing for the Kindle and tells what changes he hopes to see in the next version.
Here is some of what's on his 14 pages of Kindle titles:
The TechCrunch blog
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
Free Amazon Daily Blog
The New York Times
Kindle Quote: Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.
Kindle Comment: Bob Boyken of Bloomington, Indiana
Phone comment line: 206-666-2713. Please call and leave a comment, suggest someone for a "What's on Your Kindle Interview?" or offer ideas to improve this podcast. I look forward to hearing from you!
UPDATE: Click Here for .mp3 file. (Thanks to FeedBooks co-founder Hadrien Gardeur for the tip, which should enable us to read the full show notes on the Kindle and listen to podcast at the same time. I'm going to try it now....)
The "What's on Your Kindle?" Interview: A telephone conversation with C.C. Chapman, who runs a digital marketing company called The Advance Guard and is host of the Accident Hash, Managing the Gray and U-Turn Cafe podcasts. His informative comments include how he uses the Kindle to inspire him onward in writing a current manuscript. What's on C.C's Kindle: subscriptions to The Boston Globe and Newsweek and Time magazines, Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith, personal .pdf documents, two books he can't talk about, and a manuscript he's working on.
Kindle News: Spirit House, a Christopher G. Moore novel being offered for free on the Kindle through Aug. 28th, Josh Quittner's glowing Kindle review in Time, the Kindle Social Network, and my fruitless hunt for independent confirmation of the CrunchGear rumor of a new Kindle coming in October.
Tech Tips: a hardware fix at 30K feet, keyboard shortcuts, and how to change the text justification.
Kindle Quote: inspiring words from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.
Kindle Comments: SCG, Baratunde Thurston, and Kesler Woodward.
Music for the podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.
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mp3 version of Episode 2 featuring "What's On Your Kindle" interview with C.C. Chapman.
On this debut episode of The Kindle Chronicles, the "What's on Your Kindle?" interview is with The Onion's web-and-election wizard Baratunde Thurston, a comedian and blogger who offers great suggestions for a wished-for social network capability for the Kindle, and how the device has changed the way he reads. Here is some of what's on Baratunde's Kindle:
The Scar by China Mieville
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
The Daily Kos
treehugger
The Huffington Post
ReadWriteWeb
The New York Times
Also in this episode, News of rumors of a new Kindle in October, a Tech Tip for changing the images on your screen in sleep mode, and a Kindle Quote from Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Music for the podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.
I'd REALLY like to include listener feedback in this podcast, so please don't be shy: leave a comment at 206-666-2713 or email an audio file or text message to me at PodChronicles@gmail.com, or leave a message here in the comments.
Photo of Baratunde Thurston reading his Kindle on the subway is courtesy of Silicon Alley Insider.
On this debut episode of The Kindle Chronicles, the "What's on Your Kindle?" interview is with The Onion's web-and-election wizard Baratunde Thurston, a comedian and blogger who offers great suggestions for a wished-for social network capability for the Kindle, and how the device has changed the way he reads. Here is some of what's on Baratunde's Kindle:
The Scar by China Mieville
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
The Daily Kos
treehugger
The Huffington Post
ReadWriteWeb
The New York Times
Also in this episode, News of rumors of a new Kindle in October, a Tech Tip for changing the images on your screen in sleep mode, and a Kindle Quote from Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Music for the podcast is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.
I'd REALLY like to include listener feedback in this podcast, so please don't be shy: leave a comment at 206-666-2713 or email an audio file or text message to me at PodChronicles@gmail.com, or leave a message here in the comments.
Photo of Baratunde Thurston reading his Kindle on the subway is courtesy of Silicon Alley Insider.
Len Edgerly, a graduate of Harvard College (1972) and the Harvard Business School (1977) has worked as a business journalist at The Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin, editor of an energy magazine in Casper, Wyoming, and an executive at a natural gas company based in Denver. After early retirement, he earned a Masters in Fine Arts in poetry from Bennington College and has served on arts policy boards, including the Western States Arts Federation, the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs, and the New England Foundation for the Arts.
He and his wife divide their time between Denver and Cambridge, Mass. He has been podcasting since December, 2006 at the Audio Pod Chronicles and Video Pod Chronicles. He has no affiliation with Amazon beyond that of an enthusiastic early purchaser of the Kindle.