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**The Kindle Chronicles**

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.

Latest Episodes:

TKC 619 Brian Dumaine Jun 13, 2020

Show notes

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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TKC 618 David Pepper Jun 06, 2020

Show notes

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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TKC 617 Alexandra Woodworth May 29, 2020

Show notes

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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TKC 616 Darlene May 23, 2020

Show notes

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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TKC 615 James McQuivey May 16, 2020

Show notes

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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TKC 614 Josh Bookin May 09, 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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TKC 613 Szczepan Twardoch May 01, 2020

Show notes

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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TKC 612 A G Riddle Apr 25, 2020

Show notes

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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TKC 611 David Burleigh Apr 18, 2020

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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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TKC 610 Dean Koontz Apr 10, 2020

Show notes

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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