The Kindle Chronicles

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TKC 609 James McQuivey Apr 02, 2020

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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

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"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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TKC 608 Darlene Mar 28, 2020

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My Wife at Sunrise in Ocean Park, Maine

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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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TKC 607 Jason "Timbuktu" Diakité Mar 21, 2020

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Author of A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir

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Jason "Timbuktu" Diakité on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia and YouTube

Jason's performance at Harlem Sound Stage (rescheduled for October)

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TKC 606 A G Riddle Update on Coronavirus Mar 14, 2020

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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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TKC 605 Steven Levy Mar 07, 2020

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Author of Facebook: The Inside Story

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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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TKC 604 Bradley Metrock Feb 28, 2020

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Executive Director of Digital Book World

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"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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TKC 603 A G Riddle on COVID-19 Feb 21, 2020

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Author of Pandemic and other thrillers

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A G Riddle's books at Amazon.com

Next Week's Guest

Bradley Metrock, director of Digital Book World

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TKC 602 Gary Lerude Feb 15, 2020

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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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TKC 601 Author Kathleen West Feb 08, 2020

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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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TKC 600 My Grandson James Jan 31, 2020

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James and his Bengal cat, Serena

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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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