The Kindle Chronicles

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TKC 413 My Father and Grandson Talk Kindle Jul 01, 2016

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My Father and Grandson Interview starts at 23:32 and ends at 44:30 News Amazon Inspire press release - June 27, 2016 "Amazon Unveils Online Education Service for Educators" by Natasha Singer at The New York Times - June 27, 2016 "Amazon Inspire Removes Some Content Over Copyright Issues" by Natasha Singer at The New York Times - June 29, 2016 "Good News at The Washington Post" by Christopher Payne at New York Magazine - June 28, 2016 Amazon Dash Buttons press release - June 28, 2016 Amazon Prime Day - July 12, 2016 Tech Tip Page Flip, the reimagined Kindle navigation tool Interview with my father and my grandson Click here to order a Kindle cover with a photo The Boxcar Children Mysteries by Gertrude Chandler Warner – various prices for Kindle Books by Will James Two Little Savages by Ernest Thompson Seton Minecraft Books by Horatio Alger Next Week's Guest Mike Torres, Amazon's director of product management for the Kindle, who will talk about Page Flip. 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. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

TKC 413 Jane Friedman of Open Road Media Jun 24, 2016

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Co-Founder, Chairman and Executive Publisher of Open Road Integrated Media Interview starts at 15:17 and ends at 44:11 I do not think that the world of print survived and now will thrive at the expense of eBooks. I think eBooks will coexist with print, which I think is the best of all possible worlds. And I think that at the right price the revenue that one can receive from eBooks will be pretty substantial. News "Smaller, lighter $80 Kindle unveiled with rounder edges—plus new Export Notes software update" by Len Edgerly at TeleRead - June 22, 2016 All-New Kindle in white or black with or without special offers (the link includes my Amazon Associates code and will provide a commission to support the podcast if you use it—thanks!) "Apple E-book Refunds to Begin June 21" by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - June 20, 2016 "Himalayan delivery by bike for Amazon man" at Hemmel Today - June 17, 2016 Tech Tip What's Your Kindle Worth? Interview with Jane Friedman "Slavin Named CEO of Open Road; Friedman Becomes Chairman" by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - May 31, 2016 Open Road press release announcing new CEO - May 31, 2016 Alan Sillitoe's books at Open Road Pearl Buck's books at Open Road Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead Goerge Pat Conroy books at Open Road Homeland on Prime Instant Video The Affair (Showtime) Open Road's The Lineup site 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 Persepctive " CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

TKC 411 BookBub, Kids Books & Trump at BEA Jun 17, 2016

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Director of Business Development at BookBub Interview starts at 5:64 and ends at 16:18 BookBub definitely got off the ground with self-published authors. They're often the first people in the industry to experiment with a new marketing channel, and they were much more comfortable discounting their books four years ago than a lot of traditional publishers were. Over the course of the past four years we've started working with all the major publishers, and we've gotten to the point where it's fifty-fifty. We've actually maintained that breakdown for a while now, and we're very comfortable with it. News "Amazon's Third Bookstore Will Be in Portland" by Leena Rao at Fortune - June 15, 2016 Interviews at BookExpo America Katie Donelan, Director of Business Development at BookBub (5:64 to 16:18) "Introducing BookBub New Release Alerts" at BookBub blog - January 4, 2016 BookGorilla David Hemphill, publisher of Coralstone Press (16:54 to 24:26) The Good Dog by Todd Kessler, illustrated by Jennifer Gray Olsen Blue's Clues on Nikolodeon (Amazon Prime Instant Video) Christina York, co-founder and CEO of Spellbound (24:46 to 29:26) "Spellbound uses augmented reality to turn children's books into digital pop-up books" by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - May 12, 2016 Scott Dikkers, founder of The Onion (29:27 to 39:53) Trump's America: The Complete Loser's Guide by Scott Dikkers - available in Kindle, paperback, and audio formats The Comedy Insider Podcast, a serious conversation about comedy - hosted by Scott Dikkers (See Episode 13 for the Andy Borowitz interview) Micro Publishing Media Tech Tip "Kindle firmware v5.8.1: It's all about dots and sharing" by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - June 16, 2016 Content Buzz Books 2016 (free) "Five Curious Ways to Find New Books to Read" by Mihir Patkar at MakeUseOf - June 14, 2016 Next Week's Guest Jane Friedman, chairman of Open Road Media 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 Persepctive " CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

TKC 410 Peter Hudson of Shelfie Jun 11, 2016

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Co-Founder and CEO of Shelfie.com Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 We needed to find a metaphor, an analogy for the playlist or the inbound link when it came to books. What we found is that bookshelves are an incredibly good signal. News 1999 Jeff Bezos speech at Association of American Publishers meeting (YouTube) "Watch Jeff Bezos Lay Out His Grand Vision for Amazon's Future Dominance in This 1999 Video" by Jason del Rey at Recode - November 22, 2015 Tech Tip Software version 5.1.4 updates for Fire HD 8, Fire HD 10 and Fire "New Fire OS 5.1.4 Update Adds eBooks to SD Card and 'On Deck'" at The eBook Reader - May 25, 2016 "Amazon Fire updates to Fire OS 5.1.4 - many changes?" by Paul St John Mackintosh at TeleRead - June 5, 2016 Interview with Peter Hudson Shelfie My interview with Peter Hudson in December, 2014 The Fireman and The Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill Shelfie by Bitlit Crunchbase listing "BitLit Helps You Get E-Book Versions of the Physical Books You Already Own" by Frederic Lardinois at TechCrunch - May 22, 2014 Content Daily Beast story on Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump by Harry Hurt III, described as "Trump's most hated biographer" - June 7, 2015 Next Week's Show: More from BookExpo America in Chicago 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 Persepctive " CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

TKC 409 Chang Kim on Bite-Sized Content Jun 03, 2016

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CEO of Tapas Media Interview starts at 19:22 and ends at 43:40 I believe that for publishing, even though Kindle is capturing a lot of the mobile market, I think there are still innovations to be made. In terms of marketplace players out there who have fundamentally thought about the whole thing from mobile specifically, I don't think there's a lot yet. News Walt Mossberg interviews Jeff Bezos at Recode's Code Conference 2016 (full video and a separate audio link) - May 31, 2016 "Amazon's $290 e-reader misfire: A hands-on review of the new Kindle Oasis" by Michael Hiltzik at The Los Angeles Times - May 31, 2016 Fire HD 10 tablet - now available in Silver Aluminum and 64 GB models Interview with Chang Kim Tapastic Tapas Media Crunchbase listing Tapas App on iOS and Android Candy Crush Clash of Clans Game of War 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 Persepctive " CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

TKC 408 BookExpo America w/ Scott Turow, Jon Fine et al May 28, 2016

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Audio recorded at BookExpo America in Chicago and related links:

Jon Malinowski (2:00-4:25), president of The Combined Book Exhibit, creator of the Book Fair Buddy app on iOS and Android platforms.

Pubmatch.com

"Authorship in the Digital Age" panel moderated by Jon Fine (14:24-21:13), former Director of Author and Publishing Relations at Amazon

"At Chicago's BEA-Lite: A Meaningful Discussion on Publishers and Authors" by Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives - May 13, 2016

Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow (10:17-12:46)

Barbara Freethy (8:40-10:00)

A. Konrath(12:55-13:57).

Scott Turow interview (21:24-31:02)

"BookExpo America panel: Digital Authorship" by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - May 12, 2016

"Scott Turow: Amazon uses 'unfair tactics' in e-book market" by Shoshana Davis at CBS News - October 16, 2013

A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation's Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food by Eve Turow

"Why Are Millennials So Obsessed With Food?" by Joe Pinsker at The Atlantic - August 14, 2015

Morgan Entrekin (34:15-41:40), president and publisher, Grove Atlantic

"Amazon: Business as Usual?" forum at New York Public Library in 2014 with Morgan Entrekin as one of the panelists (video)

6.Morgan Entrekin, president and publisher, Grove Atlantic

Donald J. Trump? (43:36 - 44:58)

Trump's America: The Complete Loser's Guide by Scott Dikers, founding editor of The Onion

Next Week's Guest:

Chang Kim, CEO at Tapastic, creator of the Tapas app for iOS and Android

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 Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.

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TKC 407 Marty Baron Interviews Jeff Bezos May 20, 2016

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Jeff Bezos: We need to take The Washington Post from being a great local paper, which was a very successful strategy for decades, and transform it into a great national and global paper. We have the capability to do that, and as we do that we're going to change the revenue structure. We've historically made a relatively large amount of money per reader on a relatively small number of readers. We need instead to make a relatively small amount of money per reader on a much larger number of readers. If you are studying the news business, the Internet has been a disaster for traditional news companies for the most part, because it takes a lot of things away. There are a lot of anti-gifts the Internet brought to the traditional news business. But it does bring one huge gift. You have to maximize your usage of that new gift, which is that it provides almost free global distribution. We could have hundreds of millions of readers and make very little money and have an amazing institution. And I'm happy to fund that until we get there. Note: For this week's show, I am bringing you extensive excerpts from a Jeff Bezos interview conducted by Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, on May 18, 2016 at an event named Transformers. I have interspersed the clips with my comments on the interview, which I thought was extremely well done and revealing. Here are some links to coverage of the interview. "'Not an appropriate way for a presidential candidate to behave': Bezos fires back at Donald Trump" by Paul Farhi at The Washington Post - May 18, 2016 Next Week Show Interviews and observations from Book Expo America in Chicago 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 Persepctive " CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

TKC 406 Amazon's Peter Korn on Accessibility May 13, 2016

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Accessibility Architect at Amazon's Lab126 Interview starts at 9:45 and ends at 39:50 We continually evaluate ways we can make reading on the Kindle more enjoyable, more comfortable, more accessible. This led us to create the Bookerly font. This led us to include the open-source OpenDyslexic font. So we continue to evaluate and bring innovations to our customers. News "Amazon borrows from YouTube script, opens marketplace to video creators" by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - May 10, 2016 "Google's Answer to Amazon's Echo is code-named 'Chirp' and is landing soon" by Marg Bergen at The Verge - May 11, 2016 "Forget Amazon's Echo: Lexi lets you speak to Alexa through your phone" by MIX at TheNextWeb - May 6, 2016 "Move Over Lexi - Roger Puts Amazon Alexa in Your iPhone for Free" by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - May 12, 2016 Free Roger app for iOS "Goodreads launches free e-book giveaway promotions for $119 fee" by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - May 6, 2016 Tech Tip Audible's new Send This Book feature Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Audible) - email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com if you'd like me to send you a free copy of this audiobook, using Audible's new Send This Book Book Feature Interview with Peter Korn Amazon's guide to VoiceView Kindle Paperwhite blind and visually impaired readers bundle My Coverage of VoiceView at TeleRead and The Kindle Chronicles - May 10, 2016 Content Trump's America: The Complete Loser's Guide by Scott Dikkers Next Week's Show Interviews and observations from Book Expo America in Chicago My BEA Liveblog posts on Goodreads author tips and Rethinking the Standard Author Contract 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 Persepctive " CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

TKC 405 Paul St John Macintosh May 07, 2016

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Author, Poet and Associate Editor of TeleRead Interview starts at 22:08 and ends at 43:10 This [Kindle Oasis] basically gives Amazon its BMW or its Mercedes Benz, which is a pretty powerful draw for the entire range. It has produced a very fine, high-end E Ink eBook reader which caters very well to really serious readers. News Amazon's First Quarter earnings report - April 28, 2016 Motley Fool Money podcast on Amazon earnings - April 29, 2016 (Thanks to David Enzel for the link) "Amazon was profitable for four quarters in a row" by Jason Del Rey at re/code - April 28, 2016 "Jeff Bezos Sells $671 Million of Amazon Stock in Biggest Sale Ever" by Aaron Pressman at Forune.com - May 6, 2016 "Jeff Bezos to personally match up to $1M in donations to Mary's Place homeless nonprofit" by Todd Bishop at GeekWire - May 2, 2016 "Mary's Place receives $2 million thanks to matching donations from Amazon's Jeff Bezos" by John Knicely at KIRO7 - May 4, 2016 Mary's Place link for Amazon wish list "Video: Jeff Bezos at the White House promotes plan to hire 25,000 veterans and military spouses at Amazon" by Kurt Schlosser at GeekWire - May 5, 2016 Joining Forces web site Tech Tip How I am using Amazon Tap Interview with Paul St John Mackintosh Amazon Author's Page and Facebook page Project Gutenberg The Musical Box of Wonders by Paul St John Mackintosh (paperback only) published by H. Harksen Producitons Following is the complete text of the poem recited by Paul St John Mackintosh at the end of the interview: Mackintoshes I'm writing this to tell my baby daughter —who took my pen to chew just now—about her rambunctious forebears, Papists or Dissenters, before they were Glasgow artists or inventors: nine hundred years of sanguinary glories, blood-fuelled vendettas, feuding feudatories, feral mosstroopers, breekless in the heather, sleeping out plaid-wrapped through all Highland weather; conveniently detained during Flodden, second at Bannockburn, first at Culloden; Jacobite malcontents, staunch in lost causes, schooled by reverses and misfortune's tawses; clan wildcat totem for crest and supporters, red lion, boar's head, heart in hand, ship quarters; proud bearings passed through gentleman and peasant, from those ancestral mountains to the present ludicrous days of raincoats and galoshes: ferocious, feckless, fearless Mackintoshes. Next Week's Guest Peter Korn, accessibility architect at Amazon 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 Persepctive " CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

TKC 404 James McQuivey Apr 28, 2016

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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 12:00 and ends at 44:01 I've got to write this down in a way that helps people understand how this cycle works, where technology comes in and allows us to render scarcity irrelevant. And then what's the business strategy to do this? And that's where I point to people like Uber, Airbnb, Amazon—who are in the habit of saying, "How could we give people more for less?" Which is not the way traditional business was operating. News Kindle Oasis at Amazon.com Check out $20 off deals on Kindle, Kindle for Kids Bundle, and Kindle Paperwhite! (Not sure how long they will last.) My 17-minute video review of Kindle Oasis, featuring Darlene's comments in her quilting studio - April 27, 2016 Fintie Oasis cover story by Chris Meadows at TeleRead "Amazon in Talks to Create Virtual Reality Content" by Joan E. Solsman at The Wrap - April 26, 2016 "Amazon Studios May be gearing up to make its own original VR content" by Bryan Bishop at The Verge - April 26, 2016 Ricoh Theta M15 360 Degree camera Samsung Gear VR headset (requires Samsung smartphone) 360 YouTube video of Susan Carlson's quilting class - April 25, 2016 "Susan Carlson: Quilting in the Key of Life" at lenedgerly.com - April 27, 2016 Samsung's Gear 360 camera "Easier Reading? My $280 Oasis without bold or my 2013 Paperwhite with an all-bold file? See for yourself" by David Rothman at TeleRead - April 28, 2016 Interview with James McQuivey "Brief: Digital Winners Know That More is More" by James McQuivey with Oliwia Berdak, Michelle MOorehead, Anna Berman, and Diane Lynch (one-paragraph summary; full report costs $349) Next Week's Guest Paul St John Mackintosh, associate editor of TeleRead 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 Persepctive " CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

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