The Kindle Chronicles

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TKC 579 Brad Stone Sep 07, 2019

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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

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Sticky Notes podcast

Next Week's Show

David Peach will be covering for me at Digital Book World 2019

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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TKC 578 Bryan Person Calling from London Aug 31, 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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TKC 577 Stephanie Edgerly Aug 24, 2019

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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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TKC 576 Julia Sommerfeld Aug 17, 2019

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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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TKC 575 Lois Stiles Edgerly Aug 10, 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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TKC 574 Author Cassie Dandridge Selleck Aug 02, 2019

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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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TKC 573 11th Anniversary w/ A. G. Riddle Jul 27, 2019

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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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TKC 572 Kindles on the Beach! Jul 19, 2019

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Stacey Lamberti, left, and Amy Stevens

Interviews start at 15:05 and end at 45:57