The Kindle Chronicles

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TKC 532 DIY Book Scanner Dave Slusher Oct 13, 2018

Show notes

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

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 531 Live from Digital Book World in Nashville Oct 05, 2018

Show notes

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

Veronica and the Volcano by Geoffrey Cook

OverDrive

Next Week's Guest

Dave Slusher of The Evil Genius Chronicles podcast

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TKC 530 Paul Slavin Sep 28, 2018

Show notes

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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TKC 529 Bestselling Author Scott Pratt Sep 21, 2018

Show notes

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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TKC 528 DBW Correspondent David Peach Sep 14, 2018

Show notes

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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TKC 527 Books Expert Brian O'Leary Sep 08, 2018

Show notes

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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TKC 526 Blockchain Bookseller Josef Marc Sep 01, 2018

Show notes

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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TKC 525 Amazon Publishing's Grace Doyle Aug 24, 2018

Show notes

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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TKC 524 Bestselling T&M Author Robert Dugoni Aug 18, 2018

Show notes

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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TKC 523 Devin Nadar on KidsMD for Alexa Aug 11, 2018

Show notes

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