The Kindle Chronicles

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TKC 306 Russ Grandinetti Jun 14, 2014

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Senior Vice President – Amazon Kindle Interview starts at 18:20 We have made an experience that has helped people feel actually like they're getting real value to pay seven, eight, nine, ten bucks for text in the form of bits. And we think that's actually a tremendous accomplishment. We're proud that Kindle's played a role […]

TKC 305 Stephen Windwalker Jun 06, 2014

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Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla Interview starts at 15:56 Amazon has built this colossus in the retail industry by having the best pricing and the best availability ever imagined. And now what Amazon has done is basically to say that it's not going to use its powerful marketing tools of price and availability […]

TKC 304 Ed Park May 31, 2014

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Senior Editor for Literary Fiction at Amazon Publishing Interview starts at 10:22 One of the things when I was teaching is I would have these students who had a lot of promise, and I would encourage them. I would try to find magazine editors or agents for them on occasion. But what if I could […]

TKC Test Episode May 15, 2013

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I am tweaking my podcast feed, using Libsyn as my central control point for meta data, graphics, and audio. It's supposed to post automatically to WordPress. Test 1, 2, 3...

TKC 237 Darlene Feb 15, 2013

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My Wife, Darlene, and the Yorkie Claire at Ocean Park, Maine It depends on how you read. I think the basic Kindle is perfect if you don't need that light. I'm not sure that I would make the change if it wasn't for the light. Show Notes and Links: News Amazon takes top spot in [...]

10 Vacation Tips for Your Kindle Feb 12, 2013

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Darlene and I returned last night to Boston after a storm-extended stay on St. John, USVI. Thank you, Blizzard of 2013! We have been going to Maho Bay Camps together for 20 years, and her first visit there was 30 years ago, so we are both sad that this is the eco-resort's last season. Maho's [...]

TKC 236 Jaimal Yogis Feb 08, 2013

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Author of The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing…and Love Interview Starts at 4:55 Fear is going to be part of all of our lives. But there is a way to relate to it differently and more skillfully, and I know I will be learning about it the rest [...]

A Well-Done Kindle Paperwhite Manual is Free Today Feb 02, 2013

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I just spotted this promotion of today's one-day free price for a well-done guide to the Kindle Paperwhite by author Shelby Johnson. The title is Kindle Paperwhite User Manual: Guide to Enjoying Your E-Reader, and it will return to the regular price of $2.99 at the end of today. I'm guessing that means midnight Pacific time, so if [...]

TKC 235 Peter Meyers Feb 02, 2013

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Vice President for Editorial and Content Innovation Semi-Linear, creator of the Citia app Interview Starts at 22:16 What we're doing at Semi-Linear with our Citia app is partnering with big publishers like HarperCollins, Hachette, and Penguin and saying, "Let us take a crack at some of your interesting and best-selling science and technology titles, [...]

NEWS FLASH: The Yorkie Claire Selects a Winner in the TKC Kindle Fire Sweepstakes! Jan 30, 2013

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In this video, you will find out which of the 23 entrants in the Kindle Fire Sweepstakes is our winner. With encouragement from Darlene, our Yorkie Claire actually selected the winning entry from my Harvard cap. The decision of the canine judge is final! If you can't watch the video and want to know right [...]

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