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TKC 326 Aaron Goldfarb Nov 01, 2014

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Author of The Guide for a Single Man and The Guide for a Single Woman Interview starts at 19:11 It’s a lot of effort to get one book, but two simultaneous books, where you’re timing and syncing everything. It was just a huge challenge for the entire FG Press team, even beyond me writing the books. Show Notes […]

TKC 325 Donald Katz Oct 25, 2014

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Founder and CEO of Audible, Inc. Interview starts at 8:05 I think we've done a lot to change the quality of the performances, and the perception of the performances in the entertainment, and the learning and the retention values and everything that causes people to want to read. Show Notes and Links: News "Amazon Closes Muliti-Year […]

TKC 324 Peter Heller Oct 18, 2014

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Author of The Dog Stars and The Painter Interview starts at 13:42 Nobody, not even artists, understood art. What speed has to do with it. How much work it takes, year after year, building the skills, the trust in the process, more work probably than any Olympic athlete ever puts in because it is twenty-four hours […]

TKC 323 Maik Maurer & Frank Waldman Oct 10, 2014

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Co-Founders of Spritz Interview starts at 10:52 We see this as a technology where people are reading on the go. I have the Kindle app on my iPhone, and I read my books on my iPhone that way. I'd love of course to make that Spritzable, and then I would just hold it at times when […]

TKC 322 Paul Biba Oct 04, 2014

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Twitter Curator of eBook/ePublishing/eLibrary news Interview starts at 14:25 Many of the things that the authors and the publishers complain about are normal, everyday behavior in the chemical industry, in the auto industry, in the telecom industry, and the construction industry, which are industries which I've worked on—this is the way business works. The publishing industry […]

TKC 321 Joshua Tallent Sep 26, 2014

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Chief eBook Architect at Firebrand Technologies Interview starts at 14:14 I think that, because self-publishing has gotten easier, because the tools have gotten easier to use and there are so many more services available to self-published authors, you can compete directly with the work that's coming out of these major publishing houses. Show Notes […]

TKC 320 Amazon's NYC Briefing on New Devices Sep 19, 2014

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Show Notes and Links: If you use these links to purchase one of the new devices, it will provide Amazon Associates commission revenue to support the podcast without adding to your purchase price. Thanks in advance! – Len Kindle Voyage WiFi – $199 New Kindle – $79 Fire HD6 8 GB – $99 Fire HD7 8 GB – $139 Fire […]

TKC 319 Jim Duncan Sep 13, 2014

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Executive Director of the Colorado Library Consortium Interview starts at 16:26 We could go back as a group of libraries, hundreds of libraries across Colorado, to a Big Five publisher and say, "We're ready to buy your content directly, and here's the way it looks: You make your content exposed and available in our marketplace. The […]

TKC 318 Sara Nelson Sep 06, 2014

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Editorial Director of Amazon.com Interview starts at 20:43 On the Amazon book team's pick for September's spotlight debut title, Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre: “Books about the war, any war, certainly a war that is current are very, very hard sells to customers. I think people often feel like they don't want to read it, because they're […]

TKC 317 Julie Blattberg Aug 30, 2014

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Open Road Media's executive director of consumer engagement Interview starts at 15:13 Who put the "social” in social media? That's one human being making a connection with another human being—so Bill Gates read someone else's copy of the book [Business Adventures by John Brooks] a million years ago, and it made an impression. That's what social media […]

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