The Kindle Chronicles

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TKC 336 John Ashbery Jan 10, 2015

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Author of 17 poetry collections recently formatted for eBook readers Interview starts at 12:49 and ends at 37:24. The Internet seems to have changed things for the better. You can't stop people from looking things up these days. They're usually doing it in front of you while they're talking to you. So, even though it's cheating, it's resulted […]

TKC 335 Gregg Levoy Jan 03, 2015

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Author of Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion Interview starts at 9:20 and ends at 41:50. It takes courage and vigilance and diligence to ask this question of yourself repeatedly: Where am I losing energy? Why am I losing energy? Why do I not feel engaged in life? Which is a lot of what passion […]

TKC 334 Jeffery Deaver Dec 26, 2014

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Author of The Starling Project Interview starts at 12:16 and ends at 44:00. I don't have any issue aesthetically with the eBooks like some people do. For me, whatever gets people to read is fantastic. News "eReaders Can Disrupt Your Sleep, and Other Nonsense" by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader – December 23, 2014 […]

TKC 333 Richard Hollick Dec 20, 2014

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Author of the Making Book blog Interview starts at 21:05 What I've decided is going on in publishing is that genre fiction, however widely you want to define that, sort of entertainment books, are basically going to go down the eBook/indie author road. Of course the big publishers won't want to give it up, and […]

TKC 332 Pamela Paul Dec 13, 2014

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Editor of The New York Times Book Review Interview starts at 11:41 Many people who bought an eReader of some kind or another will use it for some things and not for others. Some people use it to travel, but at home they like to read a book. Some people use it for genre fiction […]

TKC 331 Peter Hudson Dec 06, 2014

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Co-founder and CEO of BitLit.com Interview starts at 14:02 We do continue to see growth [in eBooks reading] amongst more of the older generation, the Boomer generation, on font size, on convenience. As Boomers retire they do more traveling. They want to travel light, to downsize their houses, they want simplification in their lives. News Moody's […]

TKC 330 Otis Chandler Nov 29, 2014

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Co-founder and CEO of Goodreads Interview starts at 22:02 The world is really moving fast towards mobile, and Goodreads is no exception. We've seen huge adoption of our mobile products this year, and we've innovated a lot on our mobile web, particularly our iOS app. Intro The music and blog of my talented niece, Fran Betlyon News […]

TKC 329 Sara Nelson Nov 22, 2014

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Editorial Director at Amazon.com Interview starts at 11:43 There are all kinds of books in the world, and there are all kinds of people in the world, and there are all kinds of things that people would love to judge you for. We all do it, to some extent I suppose. We judge somebody by […]

TKC 328 Scott McNulty Nov 15, 2014

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Author of The Amazon Fire Phone Interview starts at 23:07 I read an interview where some Amazon exec in Europe talked about how they are learning from it, and they're going to take their lessons and apply it to their next iteration. So that seems to me that there will be another Fire phone out there—and […]

TKC 327 Mike Langlois Nov 08, 2014

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Author of Reset: Psychotherapy & Video Games, 2nd Edition Interview starts at 14:24 I think that kids that don't get to play video games are missing out on whole strata of ways to negotiate a 21st century high tech world as well as peer relationships. And I don't think it needs to be a "versus." I love reading. And I think one of the things that's really cool about the Kindle […]

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