The Elitzr.com eBook Podcast: Recent Episodes
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(http://elitzr.com/wp-content/uploads/henrik-150x150.jpg)Our newest podcast is a conversation with Henrik Berggren, the cofounder and CEO of Readmill. Readmill is a social reading startup creating a platform for sharing, annotation and in-book conversatio
(http://elitzr.com/wp-content/uploads/hugh-dan-glasses-long-1024x467-150x150.jpg)We're back! After a little time off, we have some new shows in the hopper, and the first of these is my discussion with Hugh McGuire of PressBooks.Many of you know Hugh from
This week's podcast is a must listen for anyone who wants to know where the future of indie and digital publishing is headed. I talk to Richard Nash, longtime pioneer in the world of indie publishing from his time with Softskull, and more recently with
This week's podcast in an interview with Otis Chandler, the founder of Goodreads, the 5 million user social reading network. My conversation with Otis covered alot of ground:* Social reading: since Goodreads is really the leader today in what I would ca
This week I catch up with Mark Coker, the CEO of Smashwords. Mark, who has been a guest on the podcast before, gives up an update on the latest from Smashwords in the month of its three year anniversary, as well as where he sees the company going. We also
One of the early shortcomings of e-books was that it was hard to lend an e-book to a friend. After all, reading is social, and the most fundamentally social thing we do with books is share them. If we couldn't share our e-books, digital reading would alw
(http://elitzr.com/wp-content/uploads/24symbols-150x150.png)Back after a long layoff, this week's Elitzr podcast features a conversation with Justo Hidalgo, cofounder of a startup out of Spain called 24 Symbols. I wrote about 24 Symbols a little while bac
This week I talk to Alex Ljung, CEO of Soundcloud. Just as the world of e-books is rapidly evolving due to democratizing platforms such as Smashwords, Scribd and Amazon, music is experiencing disruption anew more than a decade after being the first medi
This week I talk to Robin Sloan, author, long-time blogger and employee of Twitter where he works as part of the media partnership team.I knew Robin from a panel we participated on at the NewTeeVee Live conference last fall on the intersection between soc
This week's podcast features Angela James, Executive Editor for Carina Press, the digital-first imprint that was launched by Harlequin in June of 2010. Angela has an interesting perspective on the evolving e-book and digital publishing market since she'
This week I talk with Nathan Bransford, well-known blogger (http://nathanbransford.com/), former agent and social media guru for CNET.I met Nathan last year at a future of publishing panel and webcast I put on for GigaOM. I enjoyed my time with Nathan an
This week's podcast features Seth Godin, long-time author-entreprenuer. Godin has been pushing the digital publishing envelope for a decade - ever since he released Unleashing The Ideavirus for free on the Internet in 2000 - so naturally I was happy to
(http://elitzr.com/wp-content/uploads/Picture-126-150x150.png)This week's podcast is a good one, as I interview Lisa Lutz, the author behind the popular Spellman mystery series.I met Lisa at Boucheron last October at a bizarre Lee Child party which ended
After a long absence, the Elitzr podcast is back this week as I interview transmedia pioneer Robert Pratten and mystery author Simon Wood, the two creative forces behind Lowlifes.tv (http://www.lowlifes.tv).The call was a good one. I'm able to ask Robert
Today's interview is with serial entrepreneur Brad Inman, the CEO of Vook, one of the leading companies helping to define the enhanced eBook market.In our conversation, Brad talks about a number of different things, including:* The explosion in interest i
Today's interview is with Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords, the popular cross-platform eBook publishing service for independent authors and small presses.My conversation with Mark spans a number of topics, including:* The origin of Smashwords * The challen
Earlier this week I posted (http://elitzr.com/2010/07/levine1/) a few slices (http://elitzr.com/2010/07/paul-levine-authors-are-talking-about-the-future-of-publishing/) of my interview with Paul Levine, but today I wanted to share the entire interview in
In the second installment of my interview with author Paul Levine, I ask Paul why he decided to put To Speak for the Dead into Kindle format. The response was interesting, not only because Paul does a good job of summarizing the larger trends at play in d
(http://elitzr.com/wp-content/uploads/Picture-65.png) I recently had a chance to catch up with Paul Levine, author of the Jake Lassiter series. Paul recently re-released (http://www.paul-levine.com/content/jake-lassiter.asp) the first Jake Lassiter nove