The Kindle Chronicles

In this special episode of The Kindle Chronicles, my guest is ChatGPT. I had no idea I could use OpenAI's revolutionary AI assistant as a Thought Partner. That's how Peter Deng, OpenAI's head of ...

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 At left, Founder of New Things Lab I SPOKE BY ZOOM TODAY WITH NYCKLE SIJTSMA IN DELFT, NETHERLANDS, ABOUT HIS INSPIRING DESIGN COMPANY. I DISCOVERED NEW THINGS VIA AN INSTAGRAM AD FOR THE ME...

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                                           AUTHOR OF DAYBREAK: A NOVEL I spoke with Matt Gallagher by Zoom on February 8, 2024, in advance of the release of his new nov...

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Author of Upstairs Delicatessen:  On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading  Photo by Richard Bowditch YouTube video of the interview Links “Inside th...

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Author of To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery LINKS Neil deGrasse Tyson’s website Neil deGrasse Tyson on The Late Show with Steven Colbert (2023) Carl Sagan on The ...

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PODCASTER DOING BACK FLIP INTO A BLACK HOLE AFTER INTERVIEWING NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON, AUTHOR OF TO INFINITY AND BEYOND: A JOURNEY OF COSMIC DISCOVERY LINKS Neil deGrasse Tyson’s website ...

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Author of The Great Transition LINKS Nick Fuller Googins’s web site Elements Books Coffee Beer in Biddeford, Maine Alice Eliot Dark Atria Books , an imprint of Simon & Schuster ...

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AT THE CLOSING RECEPTION YESTERDAY AT HQ2 LINKS Full video of Amazon’s New Products Event (YouTube) Overview of Amazon new devices and features at AboutAmazon.com - September 20, 2023 ...

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AUTHOR OF HOPE: A NOVEL PHOTO © GEORGE BAIER LINKS  Andrew Ridker's website New York Times review of Hope. Interview with Andrew on WGBH Radio Boston The Altruists by Andrew R...

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KINDLE SCRIBE, NEXT TO PHOTO OF MY FATHER Click here for download link for new update  

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Author of  Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier   LINKS Kevin Kelly’s website Recomendo newsletter “The Future Will be Shaped by Optimists” - Ke...

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A RAINY DAY ON SANIBEL ISLAND "4 new features to try out on your Kindle Scribe" by Christian de Looper at AboutAmazon.com Click here for the latest Kindle Scribe software update, 16.1.13. ...

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SAMPLE NEW BRUSH TOOLS FOR SCRIBE eWritable post on today's Kindle Scribe update Kindle Scribe at Amazon.com Kindle software updates at Amazon.com Click here for Kindle Scribe soft...

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AUTHOR OF  HOW TO CALM YOUR MIND: FINDING PRESENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY IN ANXIOUS TIMES LINKS YouTube video of this interview with Chris Bailey How to Calm Your Mind - Audible Version, ...

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MY GRANDSON SHOWING CHEMISTRY NOTES ON HIS KINDLE SCRIBE LINKS Kindle Scribe at Amazon.com How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times by Chris Bailey The ...

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ME AND MY SCRIBE LINKS Kindle Scribes for sale at discounted prices How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times by Chris Bailey Quantum Radio by A. G. Rid...

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ME AND MY KINDLE SCRIBE Click here to order Kindle Scribe! Necessary Errors: A Novel by Caleb Crain NOTE: I PLAN TO UPLOAD A VIDEO OF THIS EPISODE OF THE PODCAST, RECORDED WHILE I WAS CRE...

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AMAZON VICE PRESIDENT - WORLD WIDE PUBLISHING LINKS Click here to order Kindle Scribe! Amazon Publishing Kindle Direct Publishing Kindle Vella Comixology AmazonCrossing Am...

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KEVIN KEITH, VP OF AMAZON DEVICES, SHOWS ME A KINDLE SCRIBE LINKS Click here to order Kindle Scribe! Amazon press releases introducing Kindle Scribe , Halo Rise , and four new Echo devices...

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DARLENE AND SOPHIE COMPARE THREE KINDLE MODELS Click here to order Kindle Scribe or here to order the new basic Kindle. Follow the rebuilding efforts on Sanibel Island at MySanibel.com �...

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VICE PRESIDENT - AMAZON DEVICES LINKS Click here to order Kindle Scribe! Amazon press releases introducing Kindle Scribe , Halo Rise , and four new Echo devices plus upgrades to Echo Studi...

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AMAZON’S NEW KINDLE 11TH GENERATION LINKS Click here to buy the new Kindle for $99.99 - ships October 12, 2022 Kevin Keith on TKC 533 October 19, 2018 - New Kindle Paperwhite! Steven ...

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AUTHOR OF AFTERLIVES PHOTO (C) MARK PRINGLE LINKS The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 Nobel Lecture by Abdulrazak Gurnah Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel Prize in literature in 1954 ...

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AUTHOR OF THE GAMEKNIGHT999 SERIES LINKS Official Site of Minecraft Markcheverton.com The Art of War by Sun Tzu The Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan Wing Commander...

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AUTHOR OF THE LAST WHITE MAN PHOTO BY JILLIAN EDELSTEIN LINKS Mohsin Hamid ’s previous novels: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) Moth Smoke (2012) How to Get Filthy Rich in Ris...

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AUTHOR OF THE BIG DARK SKY PHOTO BY DOUGLAS SONDERS LINKS Dean Koontz’s web site Other Thomas & Mercer novels by Dean Koontz: Devoted (March, 2020) Elsewhere (October, 2020) T...

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AUTHOR OF THE DISPLACEMENTS: A NOVEL LINKS Bruce Holsinger’s web site Other novels by Bruce Holsinger: A Burnable Book The Invention of Fire The Gifted School The Program Era...

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AUTHOR OF NORA GOES OFF SCRIPT PHOTO BY JO BRYAN PHOTOGRAPHY LINKS Annabel Monaghan’s web site Publisher’s Weekly starred review of Nora Goes Off Script Does This Volvo Make My ...

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AUTHOR OF IONA IVERSON’S RULES FOR COMMUTING: A NOVEL LINKS Clare Pooley’s web page and Amazon Author Page Mummy Was a Secret Drinker (blog) The Sober Diaries: How One Woman Stopp...

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AUTHOR OF SEARCH: A NOVEL PHOTO BY COURTNEY GREGG LINKS Michelle Huneven’s web page “You’ve Been Fictionalized!” by Michelle Huneven at The Paris Review - December 26, 2014 ...

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AUTHOR OF HOUSEBREAKING PHOTO BY AMAAL SAID LINKS Colleen Hubbard’s web page Publishers Weekly review of Housebreaking Housebreaking trailer (YouTube) NEXT WEEK’S GUEST: Mic...

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CITY MANAGER OF SANIBEL, FLORIDA LINKS Sanibel web site “City of Sanibel Welcomes New City Manager Dana Souza” - November 16, 2021 Dana Souza at Linkedin The Sanibel Plan My ...

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PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE DIRECTOR OF SATELLITE MEDIA LINKS Penguin Random House The Love of My Life: A Novel by Rosie Walsh Search by Michelle Huneven - available for pre-order with release ...

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VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AT FORRESTER LINKS James McQuivey’s Forrester website Living Manly newsletter by James McQuivey Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche by Bruce Feirstein...

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AUTHOR OF ONE STEP TOO FAR   LINKS Lisa Gardner’s website Book Tour Events for One Step Too Far Lisa Gardner’s author page at Amazon If you’d like brief updates on technology,...

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AUTHOR OF THE EXTINCTION TRIALS Right-click here  and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

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PAPERWHITE GEN 11 VERSUS OASIS  LINKS Paperwhite Gen 11 Paperwhite Signature Edition Paperwhite Kids Edition Kindle Oasis Wireless charging dock for Paperwhite Signature Edition...

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NOTES FROM HIS 10TH DECADE  LINKS The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt’s Chief of Staff by Phillips Payson O’Brien “China’s ...

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This is a special "flash" episode of The Kindle Chronicles with my coverage of today's Amazon products and services event. The big news was that Astro, a home robot, is being offered for invite-o...

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ON THE CAMBRIDGE LANAI WITH SOPHIE LINKS Kindle Oasis “New Kindle Software Update 5.13.7 Brings User Interface Changes” by Nathan at eBookreader.com The Edge of the Road podcast (...

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MYSTIC, EPISCOPAL PRIEST, AND AUTHOR LINKS Cynthia Bourgeault’s website Books by Cynthia Wisdom Waypoints Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) Spiritual Gifts from the Ima...

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PRINCIPAL PRODUCT MANAGER, KINDLE VELLA INTERVIEW STARTS AT 13:45 AND ENDS AT 49:18 Note: I will be discussing my Virginia Milner interview TUESDAY JULY 27TH, 2021, AT 1 PM EDT on Clubhouse....

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PRESIDENT OF THE OCEAN PARK ASSOCIATION INTERVIEW STARTS AT 2:41 AND ENDS AT 47:17 Note: I will be discussing my Rob Drake interview TUESDAY JULY 20TH, 2021, AT 1 PM EDT on Clubhouse. (PLEAS...

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AUTHOR OF THE LOST GIRLS INTERVIEW STARTS AT 2:27 AND ENDS AT 33:08 PHOTO BY JOANNE CHIARELLA Note: I will be discussing my Jessica Chiarella interview MONDAY JULY 12TH, 2021, AT 1 PM EDT ...

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AUTHOR OF DEAD BY DAWN, (MIKE BOWDITCH MYSTERIES BOOK 12) INTERVIEW STARTS AT 6:30 AND ENDS AT 53:13 PHOTO BY MARK FLEMING Note: I will be discussing my Paul Doiron interview MONDAY JULY 5...

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CO-FOUNDER OF MATTER INTERVIEW STARTS AT 16:06 AND ENDS AT 56:21 Note: I will be discussing my Ben Springwater interview MONDAY JUNE 28, 2021, AT 1 PM EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a cur...

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DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA’S DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & SENIOR STRATEGIST INTERVIEW STARTS AT 13:17 AND ENDS AT 46:40 Note: I will be discussing my Michele Kimpton intervie...

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AUTHOR OF MOP RIDES THE WAVES OF CHANGE INTERVIEW STARTS AT 6:32 AND ENDS AT 44:46 Note: I will be discussing my Jaimal Yogis interview MONDAY JUNE 14, 2021, AT 1 PM EDT on Clubhouse. Whethe...

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AUTHOR OF HOUSE OF CROWS , A FOUR-PART AMAZON ORIGINAL STORIES SERIES INTERVIEW STARTS AT 6:32 AND ENDS AT 44:46 Note: I will be discussing my Lisa Unger interview MONDAY JUNE 7, 2021, AT 1...

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AUTHOR OF PLAYING THE PALACE INTERVIEW STARTS AT 26:46 AND ENDS AT 51:31 Note: I will be discussing my Paul Rudnick interview MONDAY MAY 31, 2021 AT 1 PM EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a ...

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AUTHOR OF PANDEMIC AND OTHER THRILLERS INTERVIEW STARTS AT 16:27 AND ENDS AT 49:33 Note: I will be discussing my Gerry Riddle interview MONDAY MAY 24, 2021 AT 1 PM EDT on Clubhouse. Whether ...

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AUTHOR OF AMAZON UNBOUND: JEFF BEZOS AND THE INVENTION OF A GLOBAL EMPIRE INTERVIEW STARTS AT 2:00 AND ENDS AT 34:00 Note: I will be discussing my Brad Stone interview MONDAY MAY 17, 2021 AT...

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AUTHOR OF THE LAST GREEN VALLEY INTERVIEW STARTS AT 6:34 AND ENDS AT 49:20 Note: I will be discussing my Mark Sullivan interview MONDAY MAY 9, 2021 AT 1 PM EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are ...

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SENIOR EDITOR AT AMAZON ORIGINAL STORIES INTERVIEW STARTS AT 16:40 AND ENDS AT 51:54 Note: I will be discussing my Kjersti Egerdahl interview MONDAY MAY 2, 2021 AT 1 PM EDT (Note the new day...

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VICE PRESIDENT AND PRINCIPAL ANALYST AT FORRESTER INTERVIEW STARTS AT 9:33 AND ENDS AT 51:30 Note: I will be discussing my James McQuivey interview Saturday April 24, 2021 at 4 pm EDT on Club...

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AUTHOR OF YOUNG BLOOD , AN AMAZON ORIGINAL SERIES TRILOGY INTERVIEW STARTS AT 21:00 AND ENDS AT 58:16 PHOTO BY JASON ROBBINS Note: I will be discussing my Andrew Barrer interview Saturday A...

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Zooming with the author of Vanishing Asia Note: I will be discussing my Kevin Kelly interview Saturday April 10, 2021, at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click he...

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Len, Darlene, Sophie and Deb at our second rental on Sanibel Island Note: There will be no Clubhouse gathering tomorrow, because we are still on our drive from Sanibel to Cambridge, Mass. The...

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CITY MANAGER OF SANIBEL, FLORIDA INTERVIEW STARTS AT 19:29 AND ENDS AT 58:23 Note: I will be discussing my Judith Zimomra interview SATURDAY MARCH 27, 2021 AT 4 PM ET on Clubhouse. If you are...

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Founder and President of Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency INTERVIEW STARTS AT 15:12 AND ENDS AT 53:38 Note: I will be discussing my Ann Rittenberg interview SATURDAY MARCH 20, 2021 AT 4 PM ET o...

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Author of How to Train Your Mind: Exploring the Productivity Benefits of Meditation , an Audible Original INTERVIEW STARTS AT 15:54 AND ENDS AT 55:13 Note: I will be discussing my Chris Bail...

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AUTHOR OF Dark Sky, Book 21 in the Joe Pickett series PHOTO BY DAVE NELIGH INTERVIEW STARTS AT 19:40 AND ENDS AT 43:22 Note: I will be discussing my C. J. Box interview SATURDAY MARCH 6, 2...

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AUTHOR OF THE OTHER EMILY INTERVIEW STARTS AT 23:28 AND ENDS AT 55:19 Note: I will be discussing my interview with Dean Koontz SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27, 2021 AT 4 PM ET on Clubhouse. If you are ...

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BLOOMBERG OPINION COLUMNIST & CREATOR OF THE NOAHPINION BLOG/NEWSLETTER INTERVIEW STARTS AT 11:40 AND ENDS AT 56:07 LINKS Note: I will be discussing my interview with Noah Smith SATURDAY...

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A FRESHMAN AT THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INTERVIEW STARTS AT 14:06 AND ENDS AT 49:32 LINKS “Marty Baron Considers His Time at The Washington Post” by Isaac Chotiner at The New Yor...

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PRINCIPAL PRODUCT MANAGER & WORLDWIDE SERIES LEAD AT AMAZON INTERVIEW STARTS AT 13:51 AND ENDS AT 52:50 LINKS Amazon earnings release “What to expect from Amazon’s new CEO Andy Ja...

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SANIBEL FL CHIEF OF POLICE INTERVIEW STARTS AT 12:47 AND ENDS AT 49:04 LINKS “Amazon Expands Secretive Trucking Program” by Paris Marineau at The Information - January 25, 2021 “...

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CEO OF PROJECT VOICE INTERVIEW STARTS AT 9:38 AND ENDS AT 56:32 LINKS “KindleDrip: Critical vulnerabilities in Amazon Kindle e-reader gave attackers free rein over user accounts” by J...

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CO-AUTHORS OF “COVID-19 AND BOOK PUBLISHING” INTERVIEW STARTS AT 8:35 AND ENDS AT 50:03 LINKS “Connecticut Investigating Amazon’s E-Book Business” by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg an...

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HUMANIST CHAPLAIN AT HARVARD AND MIT INTERVIEW STARTS AT 3:53 AND ENDS AT 42:11 LINKS Greg Epstein’s  bio page at Harvard and MIT Greg’s Twitter account The Humanist Chaplaincy...

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AUTHOR OF THE SANIBEL ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE INTERVIEW STARTS AT 10:11 AND ENDS AT 50:26 LINKS Typora.io Kindle software update to 5.13.4 The Sanibel Island Lighthouse: A Specialized Hist...

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PATRICIA AND BRYAN HUDSON , FOUNDING PASTOR OF NEW COVENANT CHURCH LINKS Christmas greeting from Pastor Bryan and Patricia Hudson  About New Covenant Church Biblical & Social Justic...

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AUTHOR OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, BLOCKCHAIN, AND VIRTUAL WORLDS: THE IMPACT OF CONVERGING TECHNOLOGIES ON AUTHORS AND THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY  LINKS Articles and podcasts about the future...

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AUTHOR OF THE SANIBEL ISLAND MYSTERIES SERIES INTERVIEW BEGINS AT 16:20 AND ENDS AT 45:54 LINKS “Google is going to convert ebooks to audiobooks” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reade...

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CEO AND CO-FOUNDER OF ASTROHAUS INTERVIEW BEGINS AT 16:36 AND ENDS AT 52:56 LINKS “Amazon’s Alexa-powered smart glasses are now more widely available” by Nathan Ingraham at Engadget...

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VP AND PRINCIPAL ANALYST AT FORRESTER RESEARCH LINKS James McQuivey’s site at Forrester “Learn from 2020 To Create Your Anywhere-Work Strategy” at Forrester.com - November 17, 2020...

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LEN, DARLENE, AND TESS LINKS Courtyard by Marriott Baked Beans at Bailey’s General Store , Sanibel FL Tesla Model 3 Maho Bay Campgrounds , St. John USVI A Shell of a Problem: A...

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SENIOR MAVERICK AT WIRED MAGAZINE INTERVIEW STARTS AT 5:05 AND ENDS AT 45:39 LINKS Kevin Kelly’s back articles at Wired Magazine Kevin Kelly’s Technium blog Weekly newsletter Rec...

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EDITOR IN CHIEF OF AUDIBLE ORIGINALS INTERVIEW STARTS AT 12:17 AND ENDS AT 42:35 LINKS “Bezos sells more than $3 billion worth of Amazon shares” by Annie Palmer at CNBC - November 4,...

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AUTHOR OF MEMORIAL: A NOVEL INTERVIEW STARTS AT 18:36 AND ENDS AT 48:00 LINKS “Jeff Bezos in 1999 on Amazon’s Plans Before the Dotcom Crash” - CNBC video at YouTube February 8, 201...

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AMAZON’S DIRECTOR AND GENERAL MANAGER, ALEXA SHOPPING INTERVIEW STARTS AT 11:57 AND ENDS AT 39:44 LINKS “Blogger-gamer-techie Chris Meadows mixed brains and kindness: ‘How can I make...

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AUTHOR OF FACEBOOK: THE INSIDE STORY INTERVIEW STARTS AT 16:43 AND ENDS AT 53:31 LINKS “Amazon’s Prime Day Accelerates Shift to Online Shopping” by Sebastian Herrera at The Wall St...

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AUTHOR OF ELSEWHERE INTERVIEW STARTS AT 19:22 AND ENDS AT 55:16 LINKS “Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets” by Majority Staff Report of House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Com...

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AUTHOR OF PANDEMIC AND OTHER SCIENCE-BASED THRILLERS INTERVIEW STARTS AT 14:04 AND ENDS AT 47:39 LINKS “Amazon One lets you pay at stores with the palm of your hand” by Stan Schroede...

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DARLENE AND SOPHIE AT THE TABLE WHERE WE DISCUSSED AMAZON'S NEW PRODUCTS, ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY AT VIRTUAL PRESS EVENT Other coverage of Amazon's new-products event: Day One blog Business I...

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AUTHOR OF  REPAIRING JEFFERSON’S AMERICA: A GUIDE TO CIVILITY AND ENLIGHTENED CITIZENSHIP INTERVIEW STARTS AT 6:37 AND ENDS AT 48:46 LINKS “Amazon is developing the Kindle Paperwhi...

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AUTHOR OF HOUSE LESSONS: RENOVATING A LIFE AND THE SCENT KEEPER INTERVIEW STARTS AT 2:10 AND ENDS AT 41:18 LINKS Erica Bauermeister’s web site and virtual book launch for House Lesso...

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AUTHOR OF INTERFERENCE INTERVIEW STARTS AT 14:05 AND ENDS AT 49:17 LINKS FAA certifies Prime Air for drone delivery tests New life for the nook?   The Creative Penn podcast with ...

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CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF ROCKETBOOK INTERVIEW STARTS AT 13:35 AND ENDS AT 54:00 LINKS Amazon Halo - Early Access special price of $64.99  “Amazon unveils Halo to battle Apple Watch and ...

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES INTERVIEW STARTS AT 15:47 AND ENDS AT 51:40 LINKS “Amazon Names Dave Clark Consumer CEO to Replace Retiring Jeff Wilke” by Matt Day at  ...

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MANAGER OF KINDLE ACCESSIBILITY AT AMAZON INTERVIEW STARTS AT 16:17 AND ENDS AT 52:05 LINKS PocketBook Color - available at Good E Reader for $219.99 plus shipping Echo Frames - $179.9...

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VICE PRESIDENT AND PRINCIPAL ANALYST AT FORRESTER RESEARCH INTERVIEW STARTS AT 7:43 AND ENDS AT 49:35 LINKS Rocketbook reusable notebook (mini) - $13.56 at Amazon.com James McQuivey’s...

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CURATOR OF A FREE POEM-OF-THE-WEEK EMAIL LIST INTERVIEW STARTS AT 20:34 AND ENDS AT 51:52 LINKS Jeff Bezos’s opening statement to Congress (YouTube) - July 29, 2020 “Amazon’s Anti...

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PHOTO BY RYAN LASH HOST OF LIVE ON LOCKDOWN AND WE’RE HAVING A MOMENT INTERVIEW STARTS AT 10:59 AND ENDS AT 51:49 LINKS “Antitrust hearing indefinitely postponed” by Rachel Krau...

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AUTHOR OF PANDEMIC AND OTHER THRILLERS LINKS “Amazon pilots opening health care centers near its fulfillment centers” at Day One Blog - July 14, 2020 “What’s Ailing an Amazon He...

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FOUNDER AND CEO OF @SKILLTYPE LINKS Skilltype Tony Zanders at Boston University Libraries The Quantified Self movement “Why the Amazon Kindle is a bibliophile’s digital must-hav...

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SENIOR EDITOR-TRADE BOOKS AT AMAZON.COM LINKS Erin Kodicek ’s links at The Amazon Book Review Amazon Book Review Podcast Amazon’s 2020 Best Books of the Year So Far NEXT WEEK’S...

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AUTHOR OF MOP RIDES THE WAVES OF LIFE: A STORY OF MINDFULNESS AND SURFING INTERVIEW STARTS AT 0:59 AND ENDS AT 33:44 LINKS Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfin...

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RYAN AND JAKE LEARNING BEACH BUGGY 2 IN THE TESLA INTERVIEW STARTS AT 50:01 AND ENDS AT 45:04 LINKS “Amazon plans summer sale for June 22 to ‘jumpstart sales’ after coronavirus crunc...

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Photo Credit: Fortune Magazine AUTHOR OF BEZONOMICS: HOW AMAZON IS CHANGING OUR LIVES  AND WHAT THE WORLD’S BEST COMPANIES ARE LEARNING FROM IT INTERVIEW STARTS AT 14:21 AND ENDS AT 4...

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AUTHOR OF THE VOTER FILE (PHOTO © CLAIRE SALZMAN) INTERVIEW STARTS AT 16:23 AND ENDS AT 43:41 LINKS Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 8 Plus Fire HD Plus bundled with Wireless Charging Dock �...

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MANAGER, AMAZON LITERARY PARTNERSHIP INTERVIEW STARTS AT 12:49 AND ENDS AT 46:59 LINKS “Amazon Echo Look No More - Another Alexa Device Discontinued” by Bret Kinsella at voicebot.ai -...

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MY WIFE AND SOPHIE ON THE UPPER DECK IN MAINE INTERVIEW STARTS AT 13:26 AND ENDS AT 51:35 LINKS “The Amazon Kindle is doomed, unless it uses color e-paper” by Michael Kozlowski at Goo...

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VICE PRESIDENT AND PRINCIPAL ANALYST, FORRESTER RESEARCH INTERVIEW STARTS AT 16:22 AND ENDS AT 53:61 LINKS Amazon press release on new HD 8 tablets - May 13, 2020 “Amazon upgrades it...

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION INTERVIEW STARTS AT 9:28 AND ENDS AT 50:27 LINKS DK Readers L2: Star Wars: The Adventures of ...

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AUTHOR OF THE KING OF WARSAW INTERVIEW STARTS AT 10:30 AND ENDS AT 42:02 LINKS Amazon First Quarter Earnings press release - April 30, 2020 “Amazon Says It Will Forgo Billions in Pro...

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AUTHOR OF PANDEMIC AND OTHER SCIENCE THRILLERS INTERVIEW STARTS AT 18:39 AND ENDS AT 52:01 LINKS “Bezos Takes Back the Wheel at Amazon” by Karen Weise at The New York Times - April 2...

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DIRECTOR OF BRAND MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION AT OVERDRIVE INTERVIEW STARTS AT 13:08 AND ENDS AT 55:48 LINKS “How Are Indie and SFF Bookstores Weathering the Coronavirus Outbreak?” By...

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AUTHOR OF DEVOTED, PUBLISHED MARCH 31, 2020 BY THOMAS & MERCER INTERVIEW STARTS AT 18:15 AND ENDS AT 49:40 LINKS Macmillan CEO John Sargent’s letter rescinding changes in eBook pricing...

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VICE PRESIDENT AND PRINCIPAL ANALYST AT FORRESTER RESEARCH LINKS “How Employees Feel About Coronavirus: Early Results from Forrester’s PandemicEX Survey” by James McQuivey at Forreste...

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MY WIFE AT SUNRISE IN OCEAN PARK, MAINE LINKS Jeff Bezos’s letter to employees “Will Covid-19 change how Amazon-Haters See Amazon?” By David Enzel at Medium - March 24, 2020 “...

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AUTHOR OF A DROP OF MIDNIGHT: A MEMOIR LINKS Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité on Facebook , Instagram , and Wikipedia and YouTube Jason’s performance at Harlem Sound Stage (rescheduled f...

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AUTHOR OF PANDEMIC and other thrillers Interview starts at 1:05 and ends at 39:20 LINKS A G Riddle’s website My father’s poem, “Transition” (video) Next week’s guest: Jason...

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AUTHOR OF FACEBOOK: THE INSIDE STORY LINKS Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy (2011) “‘Facebook: ...

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL BOOK WORLD LINKS “Amazon’s top spokesman: We want to question Trump over ‘blatant political interference’ in Pentagon cloud contract decision” by Ann...

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AUTHOR OF PANDEMIC AND OTHER THRILLERS LINKS A G Riddle’s books at Amazon.com NEXT WEEK’S GUEST Bradley Metrock , director of Digital Book World Click here to enable my daily Mo...

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TECHNICAL EDITOR AT MICROWAVE JOURNAL INTERVIEW BEGINS AT 5:40 AND ENDS AT 47:00 LINKS Readwise app for Kindle highlights   Articles by Gary Lerude at Microwave Journal “Intro...

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AUTHOR OF MINOR DRAMAS & OTHER CATASTROPHES INTERVIEW BEGINS AT 20:20 AND ENDS AT 47:20 LINKS “Digital Book World Bans Macmillan Employees in Response to Library Embargo” by Bradley ...

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JAMES AND HIS BENGAL CAT, SERENA LINKS Arlington Street Church , Boston Sumbul Siddiqui , Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins Internment by S...

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YOUR HOST WITH STACEY HELBIG AND ELISSA MEKEL  LINKS Staples Connect Staples Connect grand opening invitation February 5, 2020 Staples Studio RODEcaster Pro Podcast Production St...

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FOUNDER OF THE CREATIVE PENN AND AUTHOR OF AUDIO FOR AUTHORS   LINKS Audio for Authors: Audiobooks, Podcasting, and Voice Technologies (Books for Writers Book 11) by Joanna Penn - Availabl...

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AUTHOR OF EIGHTYSOMETHINGS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LETTING GO, AGING WELL, AND FINDING UNEXPECTED HAPPINESS  LINKS Books by Katharine Esty: Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go...

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AUTHOR OF “I MET JEFF BEZOS IN 1995 WHEN HE HAD A LAME-LOOKING WEBSITE CALLED AMAZON”  INTERVIEW STARTS AT 11:10 AND ENDS AT 50:02 “He came in a bit shy and slightly nervous--febrile, ...

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RETIRED SCIENCE EDITOR OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR LINKS Cowan honored with Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) - May 31, 2001 Karl Tay...

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AT THE ACROPOLIS WITH SONJA AND ANTHONY Recorded on Crete December 18, 2019 Uploaded from Cambridge December 20, 2019

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We are in Malta today. I created and uploaded this episode using my iPhone, which led to numerous unforeseen challenges. I hope you will be able to listen to it.  

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--Photo by John Earle AUTHOR OF GENESIS INTERVIEW STARTS AT 17:02 AND ENDS AT 43:00 LINKS “Hey Google, play me the news”   by Liz Gannes at Google’s blog Robin Cook TEDx talk (...

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DIRECTOR, BOOKS PR & EDITORIAL AT AMAZON.COM INTERVIEW STARTS AT 11:47 AND ENDS AT 48:10 “We really want to choose books that we feel like customers will love or--in a non-pushy way--should...

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AMAZON’S GENERAL MANAGER OF KINDLE UNLIMITED AND PRIME READING “There are so many types of readers. There are so many reasons, and so what we’re just trying to do is make a service that...

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AUTHOR OF THE NEW SHORT STORY COLLECTION, NAMELESS “Once I came to that decision and came to Amazon, it has been so far one of the finest experiences I’ve ever had, working with the people...

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AUTHOR, EDITOR, PROFESSOR & SPEAKER LINKS “The Best Amazon early Black Friday deals: Here’s what’s hot” by Rick Broida at CNET - November 7, 2019 Jane Friedman’s blog and newsl...

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THE YORKIE CLAIRE JUNE 7, 2005 - OCTOBER 24, 2019 LINKS Kindle Kids Edition - $110 at Amazon.com YouTube video of Claire picking John Aga as the winning entry for a Fire Tablet nine yea...

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DIRECTOR, KIDS AND FAMILY AT AMAZON Interview starts at 13:20 and ends at 40:57 LINKS Amazon Go store locations “Report of Amazon Go Coming to Airports Is a Sign of Far Greater Change...

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RETIRED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER IN UPTON, WYOMING Interview starts at 5:31 and ends at 33:07 LINKS “Millions of Amazon Echo and Kindle Devices Affected by WiFi Bug” by Lawrence Abra...

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VICE PRESIDENT AND PRINCIPAL ANALYST AT FORRESTER RESEARCH Interview starts at 13:04 and ends at 51:49 “We don’t want to be constantly wired. We don’t want brain implants. We just want ...

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AUTHOR OF THE BOOK BUSINESS: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW Interview starts at 15:54 and ends at 49:25 LINKS LEGOLAND in Boston “Why You should Remove All Color on Your iPhone” (YouT...

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Your Host in front of the Spheres at Amazon in Seattle Amazon press releases related to media briefing on September 26, 2019: 8 New Echo Devices Devices and Services for Smart Home My...

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HOST OF THE SOLOPRENEUR HOUR PODCAST LINKS Solopreneur Hour Podcast The Art of the Interview Course Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine Flyte New Media , founded by Rich ...

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DIRECTOR OF DEAF MINISTRIES, BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH Note: I am very grateful to David Peach for covering Digital Book World on his own for The Kindle Chronicles this year, which enabl...

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AUTHOR OF THE EVERYTHING STORE Interview starts at 16:31 and ends at 28:37 “I’m resuming the story. It’s the story of Alexa and the Amazon Go project, their international expansion, an...

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DIRECTOR, ADOPTION AT KHOROS IN LONDON Interview starts at 16:20 and ends at 49:09 “I find the Kindle good for highlighting, not as good for note taking. Even though I think that functional...

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AUTHOR OF HEAVENLY BODY , WITH HER GRANDSON BEAU Interview starts at 21:06 and ends at 48:59 INSTALLATION AND TEST OF ECHO AUTO INTERVIEW WITH STEPHANIE EDGERLY    Music for my podcast...

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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR OF AMAZON ORIGINAL STORIES Interview starts at 17:46 and ends at 36:41 “We are a publisher within the context of a technology company. And so we’re really eager to wor...

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APRIL 29, 1929 - AUGUST 6, 2019 This week's show is about the passing of my mother and includes a conversation I had with her eight years ago. We titled the interview "Love in a Model A" and yo...

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AUTHOR OF THE PECAN MAN Cassie’s web site Amphibian Press YouTube interview with Cassie Selleck- August 6, 2018 The Pecan Man and The Truth About Grace by Cassie Dandridge Selleck ...

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AUTHOR OF THE SOLAR WAR Interview starts at 15:38 and ends at 46:05 “In The Solar War, in the dark moments of the book, it really becomes about tribes of humans against other tribes of hum...

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STACEY LAMBERTI, LEFT, AND AMY STEVENS Interviews start at 15:05 and end at 45:57 NEWS “Amazon Prime Day Topped $7 Billion: Internet Retailer” by Annie Gaus at TheStreet - July 18, 20...

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PRESENTER OF DIGITAL BOOK WORLD SEPT. 10-12 IN NASHVILLE Interview starts at 17:04 and ends at 54:36 “This is a very unique conference. There’s nothing quite like it. It’s time well spe...

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AUTHOR OF HOW COULD SHE: A NOVEL Interview starts at 17:29 and ends at 45:54 “This book is about female friendship and how devastating and wonderful it can be.” (Photo Copyright by Nina ...

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JUST A FEW OF AMAZON’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SO FAR Interview starts at 12:58 and ends at 45:20 “(Erin Kodicek:) So June is the halfway marker for the year, and it’s also a time when a...

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CO-FOUNDER OF N2KINDLE Interview starts at 19:21 and ends at 49:24 “The thing that we’re doing is we’re changing the newsletter into a Kindle-friendly format, and then we forward them ...

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MANAGER OF THE AMAZON LITERARY PARTNERSHIP Interview starts at 15:41 and ends at 52:45 “I feel strongly that everyone has a story, and everyone deserves to have the opportunity to tell thei...

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YOUR HOST BESIDE THE BLUE ORIGIN CAPSULE LINKS Excerpts from Jeff Bezos’s fireside chat at re:MARS on June 6, 2019 AI Today podcast hosted by Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer of Cogni...

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AUTHOR OF THINK LIKE AMAZON: 50 ½ IDEAS TO BECOME A DIGITAL LEADER Interview starts at 2:38 and ends at 35:46 “I don’t think that part of the story of Amazon and Bezos gets told enough, ...

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AMAZON’S HEAD OF PRODUCT FOR KINDLE READING Interview starts at 18:29 and ends at 47:37 NEWS “How creepy is your smart speaker” in The Economist - May 11, 2019 Alexa Guard “A...

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PETER TIGHE, MY COUSIN WHO LIVES IN AUSTIN Interview starts at 11:09 and ends at 38:27 NEWS Amazon updates the Fire 7 Tablet - press release on May 16, 2019 TECH TIP Nadene Laird’s ...

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EDITOR OF THE AMAZON CHRONICLES NEWSLETTER Interview starts at 16:32 and ends at 49:27 “You can imagine an Amazon without Alexa that is still very successful, but Alexa is a huge key to Ama...

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AUTHOR OF KEEP GOING at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver Dialog starts at 5:33 and ends at 40:34 “So we all like to think that if we could just change our circumstances we’d be more c...

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GRADUATING SENIOR IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY Interview starts at 5:57 and ends at 28:32 NEWS “Elizabeth Warren’s really simple case for breaking up big tech�...

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AMAZON’S DIRECTOR OF SALES & MARKETING FOR KINDLE EREADERS & FIRE TABLETS Interview starts at 15:36 and ends at 46:17 “We find that customers--whether it’s our entry Kindle, our Paperwh...

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VICE PRESIDENT AND PRINCIPAL ANALYST, FORRESTER RESEARCH Interview starts at 12:02 and ends at 52:12 “We used Future Fitness to describe this concept, because we wanted to make it clear tha...

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AUTHOR OF THE LEGENDS OF THE FIRST EMPIRE AND RIYRIA SERIES Interview starts at 10:01 and ends at 43:57 On writing fantasy: “The world should just build in the background. You should get to...

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FOUNDER AND CEO OF IMDB Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 52:50 “In 1990, if you’d have said to me ‘You know the service that you’ve just launched, one day you’ll be able to int...

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AUTHOR OF KEEP GOING: 10 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD “When I first started out, if you had told me that my books were going to be shelved in Self Help, I would never have bel...

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THE GAMING HALL AT SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST On this last of my TKC updates from South By, I will tell you why I'm not going to sell my small stake in Bitcoin any time soon. Also, a tourist's view of ...

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LEN ON THE MAIN ESCALATOR AT THE AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER Neil Pasricha , director of the Institute for Global Happiness Neil Pasricha’s books at Amazon “Four Ways of Looking at South...

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This is the view from the big escalator at the Austin Convention Center, where I am attending a session about the Hope and Hype of Blockchain. Also in this TKC Extra I share an unusual experience...

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I plan to upload brief segments each day this week from Austin, where I am attending South By Southwest through Sunday. So much to learn! Right-click here  and then click "Save Link As..." to ...

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AUTHOR OF WINTER WORLD Interview starts at 17:30 and ends at 43:00 “My books almost always deal with an extinction-level event or the pushing of humanity to the brink at times.” COMMEN...

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LEN TEACHING A CREATIVE WRITING CLASS AT BELMONT HILL SCHOOL Audio starts at 12:59 and ends at 54:39 NEWS “Amazon Alexa and the Search for the One Perfect Answer” by James Vlahos at W...

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF TWO LIONS AND AMAZON CROSSING KIDS Interview starts at 23:18 and ends at 43:02 “We would really love to discover books from all over the globe, especially from diver...

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AUTHOR OF EARLY RISER: A NOVEL Interview starts at 11:47 and ends at 39:00 NEWS Amazon to buy Eero  - in Wired and Yahoo Finance Amazon drops plans for HQ2 in New York (Washington Po...

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AUTHOR OF YEAR OF WONDER: CLASSICAL MUSIC TO ENJOY EVERY DAY Interview starts at 18:16 and ends at 42:30 “I wanted to demystify the music itself, and I wanted to humanize the people who...

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AUTHOR OF THIS IS MARKETING: YOU CAN’T BE SEEN UNTIL YOU LEARN TO SEE Interview starts at 13:06 and ends at 45:08 “I have a bunch of regrets about how Amazon is steering the boat these...

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Author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives Interview starts at 15:43 and ends at 43:50 “You can be super clever and have all your tricks, but fundamentally everything in...

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PROJECT MANAGER FOR MOBISCRIBE READER/WRITER BY TEAMUC Interview starts at 18:37 and ends at 41:06 “It’s basically going to be like a Kindle that you can write on. If you’ve ever had yo...

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AUTHOR OF TYPESET IN THE FUTURE: TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN IN SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES Interview starts at 18:51and ends at 43:30 “So much of this stuff that, when we watch 2001 today, makes it ...

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CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER AT OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED MEDIA Interview starts at 9:51 and ends at 38:35 “I do think we’re unusual in that we consistently continue to market these books day in an...

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FORBES CONTRIBUTOR & CO-FOUNDER OF OMNI TALK BLOG Interview starts at 7:33 and ends at 41:04 “2018 was a watershed year in terms of how things transpired. This to me was really the year you...

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CREATOR OF CALIBRE Interview starts at 9:53 and ends at 43:03 “So the first and most important thing that is different between a Calibre library and your Kindle collection is that you actua...

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TV NEWS ANCHOR AND AUTHOR OF THE TRAVELER SERIES Interview starts at 10:21 and ends at 41:59 “Writing is a muscle, I think. If you don’t use it you lose that. Because I write every day bo...

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AUTHOR OF WE MISS ALL THE GREAT PARTIES INTERVIEW STARTS AT 2:12 AND ENDS AT 35:59 “I had this traditionalist view that I wanted to hold the paper book and feel the turning of the page. I ...

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HOST OF THE KINDLE CHRONICLES NEWS “Amazon gets into the blockchain with Quantum Ledger Database & Managed Blockchain” by Sara Perez at TechCrunch - November 28, 2018 Bitcoin Price P...

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VICE PRINCIPAL AND PRINCIPAL ANALYST AT FORRESTER RESEARCH Interview starts at 2:28 and ends at 38:32 “Nobody can see the future, but what we can see from the past is that it unfolds accord...

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AMAZON BOOKS SENIOR EDITOR Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 39:11 “We often talk about accessibility. We start there. We talk about quality of writing. The story is important, obviousl...

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AUTHOR OF THE BREAKTHROUGH SERIES Interview starts at 9:36 and ends at 40:28 NEWS Amazon to split HQ2 between two cities (Wall Street Journal ) Amazon announces free shipping with no m...

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VICE PRESIDENT, MACMILLAN PODCASTS & QDT Interview starts at 9:43 and ends at 40:01 “We can think of podcasting as an entry point to audiobooks. They are less of a commitment, they are free...

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SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING LEAD AT SHOPIFY Interview starts at 10:07 and ends at 43:36 “If someone were to come around with some hardware that was even 50 percent worse than the Kindle bu...

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JOERG TEWES, HEAD OF KINDLE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, AND KEVIN KEITH, VP AMAZON DEVICES NEW PAPERWHITE at Amazon.com Kevin Keith , VP-Amazon Devices Joerg Tewes , Head of Product Management f...

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HOST OF EVIL GENIUS CHRONICLES Interview starts at 10:55 and ends at 40:51 “Really and truly I’m moving my hoarding from physical hoarding to digital hoarding. But I’m in favor of tha...

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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 i...

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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 t...

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               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 Music ...

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  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 I tend to do it...

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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...

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  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 t...

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  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 che...

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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 p...

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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 genera...

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  JIM JONES, RIGHT, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT AT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA Interview starts at 9:03 and ends at 40:50 “In the classroom, I really do strongly feel that atte...

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  LINKS TO ITEMS MENTIONED IN THIS 10TH ANNIVERSARY EPISODE First episode of The Kindle Chronicles (TKC 1) with Baratunde Thurston on July 26, 2008 My interviews with Jeff Bezos in 2012...

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AUTHOR OF DEPARTURE, THE EXTINCTION FILES AND THE ORIGIN MYSTERY Interview starts at 13:07 and ends at 43:36 “I feel very lucky about the timing. The Kindle had just come out. I would go ...

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AUTHOR OF SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Interview starts at 17:04 and ends at 43:26 “I think there’s nothing more terrifying than the realization that someone you thought you knew--whether it’...

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If you are a regular listener to The Kindle Chronicles, you may have noticed a change in the show notes page. Preston Edmands from Flyte New Media has been helping me transport my page from WordP...

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  FOUNDER & CHIEF TRAILBLAZER OF RETIREPRENEUR Interview starts at 16:01 and ends at 40:10 “I went deep into Kindle and the electronic piece, and then I began pulling back some. I would...

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AUTHOR OF THE DEADLY EDITS AND LISS MACCRIMMON MYSTERIES Interview starts at 16:16 and ends at 44:12 “What I try to do is after I get up and have my coffee and my toast, is to come into my ...

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SEATTLE MUSIC AND ARTS PIONEER Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 44:45 “There it was, the head tax. ‘We’re going to do it, this is what we’re going to do. It’s going to address ...

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NEW OWNER OF DIGITAL BOOK WORLD Interview starts at 12:01 and ends at 43:50 “Everything with books orbits  discoverability. That’s the billion-dollar problem. That’s the problem that A...

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AUTHOR OF “THE LIST” IN AMAZON’S THE REAL THING COLLECTION Interview starts at 13:23 and ends at 39:21 “I think we look at the Big Five publishers as being kind of set in their ways a...

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SENIOR EDITOR, THE INFORMATION Interview starts at 11:36 and ends at 43:50 “ will be before the end of the year, unless something radical changes. I don’t think it’s imminent. It’s pr...

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AUTHOR OF THE FRANK ADVERSEGO THRILLER SERIES Interview starts at 11:14 and ends at 35:51 “Alexa’s pretty primitive. I think it’s very concerning from a cybersecurity point of view, bec...

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF GOOD E-READER Interview starts at 3:45 and ends at 33:51 NEWS “Amazon Go cashier-free store could be headed to SF’s Union Square” by Matier & Ross at The San Fra...

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AUTHORS OF OUR TOWNS: A 100,000-MILE JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF AMERICA Interview starts at 9:43 and ends at 39:14 “James Fallows: ‘Through my reportorial lifetime I’ve seen a number cr...

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TRAVELER, TELLER OF TALES, REVIEWER OF EREADERS Interview starts at 15:25 and ends at 41:53 “To be honest, I haven’t met one person outside tech nerds like myself that use it I very rare...

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LONGTIME KINDLE CHRONICLES LISTENER Interview starts at 18:14 and ends at 43:00 “It was very clear what was missing . There was no Kindle, no Fires, no place to scan and order one. Maybe th...

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AUTHOR OF FEAST: TRUE LOVE IN AND OUT OF THE KITCHEN Interview starts at 15:50 and ends at 41:48 “It’s not that I sought out to be published by Amazon. It was that Amazon happened to be ...

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CREATOR OF THE KINDLE CLASSROOM PROJECT Interview starts at 15:29 and ends at 43:19 “I don’t think that the Kindle makes reading any more fun, but a lot of students--especially 9th Grade...

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AUTHOR OF THE PUNISHMENT SHE DESERVES: A LYNLEY NOVEL Interview starts at 12:25 and ends at 36:50 “The late Sue Grafton said something to me that was really helpful on time. I was talking ...

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CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF GOODREADS Interview starts at 14:30 and ends at 36:54 “People read along, and then--for as long as there’ve been books--after you’re done reading, you you go talk ...

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READLY U.S. CONTACT Interview starts at 12:48 and ends at 40:51 “Everyone for a long time has been trying to reinvent the magazine experience on digital, or even the newspaper experience on...

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BRITTANY KAISER, CO-FOUNDER, BUENO CAPITAL AND CRYPTOHQ Interview starts at 16:20 and ends at 22:29 SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST LINKS “Wyoming Passes 5 Pro-Blockchain Laws” at Consensys - M...

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AUTHOR OF CLOSER THAN YOU KNOW Interview starts at 9:29 and ends at 43:09 “I look at certain authors that are greatly esteemed in the moment as literature. But I think, frankly, a lot of w...

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GENERAL MANAGER FIRE TABLETS & KINDLE AND AMAZON ECHO & ALEXA PRODUCT MARKETING Interview starts at 15:16 and ends at 39:43 “I loved what I had heard about the leadership principles, partic...

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AVID READER, LONGTIME LISTENER Interview starts at 12:45 and ends at 43:20 “My ideal Kindle would have real buttons and would have audio support, so that you could do immersion reading alon...

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CARMELA ORSINI OF NOVEL EFFECT (5:08 TO 13:22) Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson The Little Shop of Monsters by R. L. Stine PAUL KNOPF, CHIEF ARCHITECT AT GFA TECHNOLOGY ...

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MY FATHER WILLIAM AND GRANDSON JAMES Interview starts at 17:43 and ends at 42:24 “I’ve been writing a realistic fictional narrative for my class as an assignment. There are certain phrase...

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AUTHOR OF INTO THE BLACK NOWHERE: AN UNSUB NOVEL Interview starts at 18:20 and ends at 40:10 “One of the oldest stories that humanity tells itself is defeating the monster. Whether that’...

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SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER AT OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED MEDIA Interview starts at 11:28 and ends at 34:48 “No company in publishing right now is better aligned with Amazon in terms of our...

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EDITOR AT LITTLE A Interview starts at 22:52 and ends at 44:24 “The trick with writing is a lot of times the more specific, the more universal something becomes. In taking care of a story, ...

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AUTHOR OF RICOCHET JOE & THE NEW JANE HAWK SERIES Interview starts at 10:30 and ends at 41:57 “Whatever I was reading in childhood through adolescence, it lifted me up and out. I think it w...

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SOFTWARE QUALITY ENGINEER Interview starts at 12:46 and ends at 41:14 “Somehow the Goodreads would talk to the Amazon/Kindle cloud, so as new notes come in it would sync those down from Goo...

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CO-FOUNDER OF SELECT A STORY Interview starts at 8:33 and ends at 33:40 “An interactive story is essentially a series of interlocking short stories. I think a lot of authors kind of forget...

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DOUBLEDECKER BUS DRIVER IN LONDON Interview starts at 11:20 and ends at 39:30 “The 8 will be my Kindle that travels with me. I take it to work. We’re not allowed to have them in the cab ...

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VICE PRESIDENT AND PRINCIPAL ANALYST AT FORRESTER RESEARCH Interview starts at 9:06 and ends at 43:24 “I think Amazon feels pretty confident that they could attack any business they want, a...

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ESMERALDA AND RICHARD DETRAFFORD OF GERALDTON, AUSTRALIA Interview starts at 16:35 and ends at 40:26 “I don’t see any Amazon drones being launched here , and I’m sure CASA would have s...

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CEO OF SCORE PUBLISHING, PRODUCER OF DIGITAL BOOK WORLD 2018 Interview starts at 15:44 and ends at 43:43 “The Echo Show is an incredible glimpse into the future, because the future is going...

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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, AMAZONCROSSING Interview starts at 18:00 and ends at 43:42 “One of the magical things about publishing is that when you get together with other people who work in this i...

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AMAZON SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Interview starts at 20:45 and ends at 43.37 “It was the first time we were building a device, so we had a lot to learn. After that the team and as a company we ...

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AUTHOR OF I WORE MY BLACKEST HAIR Interview starts at 12:34 and ends at 39:39 “I’m not sure about the future of Amazon in the literary world at large. I do think that for my book it’s...

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AUTHOR OF THE QUANTUM SPY INTERVIEW STARTS AT 12:12 AND ENDS AT 34:00 “Jeff Bezos has been a great owner for The Post. He invested in our business. He has generally stayed away and let the ...

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KINDLE CREATIVE DIRECTOR SETH MICARELLI , LEFT, AND MIKE TORRES , KINDLE DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT AND DESIGN Amazon announces all-new Kindle app (press release) - October 24, 2017 All...

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AUTHOR OF A BEAUTIFUL WORK IN PROGRESS Interview starts at 18:20 and ends at 43:17 “Whatever kind of mindset they’re stuck in about whether it’s weight loss or about whether or not you...

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ARTHUR VAN REST, LEFT, GM KINDLE DEVICE & ACCESSORIES AT AMAZON, AND HANY GHALI, SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER, KINDLE AT AMAZON LAB126 INTERVIEWS Arthur van Rest and Hany Ghali at product demo Oc...

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AUTHOR OF POINT AND SHOOT NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY Interview starts at 10:55 and ends at 40:30 “Each of us sees the beauty around us and the meaning and the pathos and the feeling that happens a...

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VP & EXECUTIVE EDITOR AT THE HARPER DIVISION OF HARPERCOLLINS Interview starts at 21:54 and ends at 44:14 “I think publishers have some ideas about how Amazon feels about books, and I think...

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CEO OF THE JILLIAN GROUP Interview starts at 12:16 and ends at 35:00 “When you build relationships for the sake of relationships, amazing things can happen. Your soil becomes so rich that ...

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VICE PRESIDENT, AMAZON BOOKS STORES Interview starts at 10:48 and ends at 42:54 “We would like people who want physical books to walk out with a book, but if you walk out of our store, and ...

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EXECUTIVE EDITOR AT MACMILLAN CHILDREN’S PUBLISHING GROUP Interview starts at13:18 and ends at 42:00 “Books these days as they are produced are pretty nice little objects. And then there ...

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AUTHOR OF GEORGE & LIZZIE Interview starts at 14:30 and ends at 44:06 “Because of their childhoods I think they approach the world in such different ways--George the pathological optimist a...

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LINKS Wyoming Eclipse Festival Vertical Horizons , co-founded by Howard Wishnow Celestron EclipSmart binoculars NASA’s Eclipse web site My 360 video of the eclipse - Part 1 and Pa...

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CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF COMIXOLOGY Interview starts at 9:40 and ends at 38:47 “When we made the business plan 10 years ago--it’s hard to remember this, but iPhones didn’t exist. None of ...

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AMAZON’S FORMER DIRECTOR OF AUTHOR AND PUBLISHING RELATIONS Interview starts at 0:22 and ends at 44:20 “I do think that there is an incredible level of smart, energetic, ambitious people ...

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AUTHOR OF THE SKY BELOW Interview starts at 14:15 and ends at 41:36 “My goal with this book is to show people that it’s important to have high, lofty dreams, but it’s even more importa...

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AUTHOR OF THE DEEPEST GRAVE (FIONA GRIFFITHS CRIME THRILLER SERIES BOOK 6) Interview starts at 12:26 and ends at 42:13 “The Big 5 publishers do have a model of ‘We will buy your book for...

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FOUNDER OF STANDARDEBOOKS.ORG Interview starts at 11:43 and ends at 40:40 “One of the criteria for the books that we accept is that we very specifically don’t want to become a dumping gr...

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NEW CO-OWNER OF TATTERED COVER BOOK STORE IN DENVER Interview starts at 19:56 and ends at 43:00 “Bookstores have evolved over the years to become very much experiential retailing, and we’...

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AUTHOR OF ALL OUR WAVES ARE WATER: STUMBLING TOWARD ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE PERFECT RIDE Interview starts at 9:50 and ends at 35:52 “All memoirs build a container that’s something of a lie...

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AUTHOR OF THE INEVITABLE: UNDERSTANDING THE 12 TECHNOLOGICAL FORCES THAT WILL SHAPE OUR FUTURE Interview starts at 18:40 and ends at 43:00 “All the visions that most people have of the fut...

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READER’S ADVISORY LIBRARIAN AT SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY Interview starts at 12:20 and ends at 37:05 “The Seattle Library has seen an exponential growth in our e-book usage, which like else...

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EXECUTIVE EDITOR AND CO-FOUNDER OF BOOK RIOT Interview starts at 10:10 and ends at 43:25 “If publishers woke up tomorrow and sanely priced e-books, I think it would be different in degree ...

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CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF PUBLISHING OFFICER OF UNBOUND Interview starts at 8:56 and ends at 42:25 “It’s not so much the elephant in the room. We are the room inside the elephant, if you look...

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INVENTOR OF THE HASHTAG Interview starts at 12:30 and ends at 44:11 “Your pocket is now your garage, right. If one time you used to buy a car to sort of have in the garage to be like, ‘W...

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AUTHOR OF BENEATH A SCARLET SKY Interview starts at 3:32 and ends at 42:21 “Not only does the guy deserve to be noted for what he did, his story is the story of faith, and the ability to ...

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CO-FOUNDER OF TOR LABS Interview starts at 16:53 and ends at 40:00 “This story is 14 episodes, and it is about security chief Dakota Prentiss and Matt Salem, who are both ex-military, worki...

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DIGITAL AND ARCHIVAL PUBLISHING MANAGER FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Interview starts at 12:51 and ends at 40:01 “I really try to get people to understand that every little basic functionality ...

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Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 11:17 and ends at 36:16 “I don’t think they really expect the fashion angle to be a big driver of these de...

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Author of The Doctor Is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life and Joie de Vivre Interview starts at 13:00 and ends at 41:17 “This is also my philosophy of life: I talk about a turtle. A turtle stays ...

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AUTHOR OF WORDS ONSCREEN: THE FATE OF READING IN A DIGITAL WORLD Interview starts at 10:33 and ends at 41:35 “Education increasingly wants to measure finite, little bites of stuff, and the...

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Painter, art critic and historian Interview starts at 15:00 and ends at 41:14 “I remember your talking on one of your programs about Jeff Bezos’s insisting on a one-second response when ...

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CREATOR OF I LOVE MY KINDLE AND THE MEASURED CIRCLE Interview starts at 6:14 and ends at 43:10 “It would also be able to know what your preferences are--that’s one of the biggest things...

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AUTHOR OF “JERRY (FROM ACCOUNTING)” Interview starts at 14:56 and ends at 45:09 "I love what Amazon is doing in terms of giving access to a platform in a kind of populist way. I think tha...

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CO-FOUNDER OF ASK MY BUDDY Interview starts at 18:45 and ends at 41:25 "In terms of users or penetration, I would say that Google Home probably represents about less than 10 percent on our ne...

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DAVID MEASER OF RPA ADVERTISING AND LISA PECOT-HEBERT OF USC Interview starts at 25:08 and ends at 49:15 I expected the smaller cities in the U.S. to be places where eventually trends made th...

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AUTHOR OF RIPPER: THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER SICKERT Interview starts at 10:27 and ends at 41:38 “Billie Jean King is very aware of my Ripper book, and we talked about it when I began all t...

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AUTHOR OF THE KUTHERIAN GAMBIT SERIES Interview starts at 10:15 and ends at 43:51 "When I originally put out Book 1 I had no idea if anyone cared about my stories. I didn’t want to inves...

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AUTHOR OF FOUR SEASONS OF RENO HART AND CREATOR OF THE AUTHOR BIZ PODCAST Interview starts at 10:33 and ends at 42:30 "The power of Amazon Publishing--if you’ve written a good book and th...

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TECHNOLOGY REPORTER AT OBSERVER.COM Interview starts at 10:30 and ends at 42:19 "That’s why I call this whole printed book thing fetishism. What’s more important? Is literature and writin...

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HISTORIAN AT THE SANIBEL PUBLIC LIBRARY Interview starts at 3:01 and ends at 34:30 “Going up and learning how to fly--I mean, in that era was pretty impressive. I’m kind of struck by the...

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PRESIDENT OF THE FUTURE OF PUBLISHING Interview starts at 8:19 and ends at 44:04 "I’m convinced that if you want to retain your job in publishing moving forward, unless you’re demonstrabl...

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CO-AUTHORS OF EVELYN’S LIGHTHOUSE Interview starts at 14:58 and ends at 44:35 Patience: "It was really meant to inspire other younger girls or the readers to read more, because I’ve alwa...

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OUR SUPPER ABOARD THE SILVER METEOR EN ROUTE TO KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA NEWS “How Netflix Lost Big to Amazon in India” by Abhishek Madhaven at Backchannel - January 12, 2017 TECH TIP “...

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CEO OF OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED MEDIA Interview starts at 14:22 and ends at 41:41   LINKS FOR INTERVIEW WITH PAUL SLAVIN : Open Road Integrated Media website Paul Slavin’s 2016 year-en...

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AUTHOR OF BOOKS FOR LIVING Interview starts at 19:07 and ends at 43:15 "One of the reasons I come back to Lin Yutang is a marvelous story he tells, in 1937, about being in the most famous te...

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MY WIFE DARLENE, CLAIRE AND A NEW QUILT  Interview ‪starts at 12:28 and ends at44:58 "What’s great about Audible is you still get to hear a story. You’re not reading it, but you’re s...

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AUTHOR OF THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE TALKING BOOK Interview ‪starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 “There’s often a false division between audiobook listeners and print book readers, because i...

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AUTHOR OF THE MAKING BOOK BLOG  Interview ‪starts at 14:03 and ends at 44:31 "The idea that Barnes & Noble can make it by sort of becoming a small specialist, cozy bookstore is kind of del...

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SENIOR PASTOR OF NEW COVENANT CHURCH, INDIANAPOLIS Interview ‪starts at 7:20 and ends at 33:36 I think it’s a matter of accepting the change that God has provided with these tools, learn...

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HEAD OF CYNTHIA MANSON LITERARY AGENCY Interview ‪starts at 14:30 and ends at 41:06 "The trick is that if you have an author that is struggling to find that audience, to find that readershi...

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SENIOR BOOKS EDITOR AT AMAZON.COM Interview ‪starts at 12:41 and ends at 43:35 " by Beth Lewis] is one that I personally wanted to see as high on the list as possible. It’s a fictional s...

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DEPUTY EDITOR, NIEMAN JOURNALISM LAB AT HARVARD  Interview ‪starts at 16:02 and ends at 40:51 "I think it’s become very clear that there’s going to be a devoted subset of people who do...

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CAPTAIN OF SEA DRAGON, AUTHOR OF LOSS AT SEA: A SOLO CIRCUMNAVIGATION Interview ‪starts at 13:19 and ends at 36:18 "It’s less difficult than it will seem at times. There will be hard poin...

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EXECUTIVE TEAM AT EARPLAY  Interview ‪starts at 10:28 and ends at 44:37  Left to right: Dave Grossman, Chief Creative Officer; Bruno Batarelo, Chief Technology Officer; and Jonathan Myer...

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AUTHOR OF THE JEKYLL REVELATION PUBLISHED BY AMAZON PUBLISHING’S 47NORTH IMPRINT   INTERVIEW ‪STARTS AT 10:00 AND ENDS AT 43:22 "I used to joke around that I could walk up to a table...

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BUFO CALVIN IS THE CREATOR OF THE I LOVE MY KINDLE BLOG AND THE MEASURED CIRCLE’S GEEK TIME TRIP Interview starts at 9:49 and ends at 36:45  "If you want to watch 'Devil Girl from Mars' ...

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EVP AND PUBLISHER, OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED MEDIA Interview ‪starts at 15:33 and ends at 43:28 "We are not an agency publisher. So we don’t have any control over the consumer price. We set th...

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AUTHOR OF FIND YOUR OWN VOICE  Interview ‪starts at 16:18 and ends at 42:39 "I don’t think books are going to evolve, because I think other things are there to take that slack up. And ...

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SENIOR WRITER AND FEATURES EDITOR AT PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Interview ‪starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 "The fact that we have rapidly declining eBook sales from major publishers and that we se...

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VICE PRESIDENT AND PRINCIPAL ANALYST AT FORRESTER RESEARCH  Interview ‪starts at 14:34 and ends at 44:17 "It’ll happen in the cloud, and it will get propagated out to eight, 10, 15, 20 m...

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ROWING MEDALIST, CHALLENGED READER TRYING A KINDLE Interview ‪starts ‪at 14:43 and ends at 42:48 I remember walking home from third grade and throwing a workbook away, it was a book that ...

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AUTHOR OF SUBSTITUTE: GOING TO SCHOOL WITH A THOUSAND KIDS   Interview starts at 8:44 and ends at 41:26 The thing that really hit me was, this is compulsory. None of these kids have a cho...

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SENIOR EDITOR, ‪AMAZON.COM BOOKS  Interview starts ‪at 17:14 and ends at 44:11 "I’ve heard it said that summer’s a great time for summer reading, but it’s also a great time to sit...

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Publisher of Open Letter Books  Interview starts at 15:15 and ends at 43:30 Amazon is filling in some of these gaps, because we haven’t for a long time seen the normal mystery book that so...

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BOOKRIOT CONTRIBUTOR WHO WRITES ABOUT ROMANCE NOVELS  Interview starts at 10:59 and ends at 42:21 We’re sort of worshipping at the temple of love, the same way that religion can help us ma...

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VP & EXECUTIVE EDITOR, HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS   Interview starts at 18:58 and ends at 43:28   There are a lot of very serious readers at Amazon, and honestly I think that that’s someth...

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SENIOR EDITOR, AMAZONCROSSING   Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 38:04 is one of many distinguished voices from diverse cultures that we’ve had the pleasure of publishing, and I t...

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FOUNDER AND CEO OF AMAZON.COM   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05   Only when I read a truly great novel do I feel that I have lived an alternate life that might actually teach m...

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FOUNDER AND CEO OF THE IDEA LOGICAL COMPANY   Interview starts at 8:05 and ends at 34:24   I think it’s possible that we’re going to wake up and say we just had another black-swan event...

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DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION AT OVERDRIVE, INC.  Interview starts at 15:18 and ends at 44:22 I’m happy to report that all of the Big Five publishers have made their titles avail...

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DIRECTOR, PRODUCT MANAGEMENT - AMAZON KINDLE  Interview starts at 18:09 and ends at 43:26 The biggest technical challenge I would say is creating a seamless Page Flip reading experience ...

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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...

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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 a...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-413-jane-friedman-of-open-road-media

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 peop...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-411-bookbub-kids-books-trump-at-bea

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 f...

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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 innova...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-409-chang-kim-of-tapas-media

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 pla...

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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...

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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...

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AUTHOR, POET AND ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF TELEREAD   Interview starts at 22:08 and ends at 43:10   This basically gives Amazon its BMW or its Mercedes Benz, which is a pretty powerful draw for...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-405-paul-st-john-macintosh

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 cycl...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-404-james-mcquivey

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KRAKOW POLAND   Interview starts at 20:15 and ends at 43:40   On the Kindle Oasis: "I remember the first eBook readers that...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-403-szymon-szott

FEATURING NEIL LINDSAY, AMAZON VP DEVICES AND CHRIS GREEN, AMAZON LAB 126 VP INDUSTRIAL DESIGN   This special episode of The Kindle Chronicles is all about the new Kindle Oasis, based on an em...

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AUTHOR OF THROWING ROCKS AT THE GOOGLE BUS: HOW GROWTH BECAME THE ENEMY OF PROSPERITY   Interview starts at 28:24 and ends at 42:21   The people who are throwing rocks at the Google bus, ...

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THE KINDLE CHRONICLES’ FIRST LISTENER   Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 43:13   I should have known that we’d be building our life around it like we have other things that you’...

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  EDITOR-AT-LARGE, CNET’S TECHNICALLY LITERATE   Interview starts at 19:40 and ends at 43:30   We have a very different generation coming up who may relate to literature in a different ...

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START AND END TIMES OF INTERVIEWS AT SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST INTERACTIVE Martin Baron , executive editor of The Washington Post (8:20 to 18:34) Scott Totman, head of digital product engineering at ...

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SENIOR WRITER, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY   Interview starts at 19:24 and ends at 33:23 I absolutely think it’s madness to continue to push for regulatory input into the eBook market. Look what it ...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-397-andrew-albanese-on-apple-refund

ENGLISH TRANSLATOR OF WINTER MEN BY JESPER BUGGE KOLD   Interview starts at 20:10 and ends at 41:14 I like the fact that I can tell an editor there that this book is something that you shou...

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AUTHOR OF LIT UP: ONE REPORTER. THREE SCHOOLS. TWENTY-FOUR BOOKS THAT CAN CHANGE LIVES   Interview starts at 14:49 and ends at 42:07 You worry about the next generation of readers. Is liter...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-395-author-david-denby

AUTHOR OF WINTER MEN   Interview starts at 9:42 and ends at 43:24   I was very scared that it was translated into German. I really wanted it to be translated but still scared, because it...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-394-novelist-jesper-bugge-kold

Chief Executive Officer of The Tattered Cover Book Stores   Interview starts at 10:03 and ends at 42:09   I think it would be interesting for independent booksellers to experiment with s...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-393-len-vlahos

CREATOR OF THE I LOVE MY KINDLE BLOG   Interview starts at 10:46 and ends at 44:02 If people were evolving away from reading long-form reading, we would not have series. But right now peopl...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-392-kindle-blogger-bufo-calvin

EDITOR OF AMAZON’S LITTLE A IMPRINT AND DAY ONE MAGAZINE   Interview starts at 18:03 and ends at 42:20   A lot of editors across Amazon Publishing kind of have their hands in Day One. Ev...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-391morgan-parker

HELPING AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS FLOURISH IN THE DIGITAL AGE   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05   This question has become a little bit of a litmus test in the writing and publish...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-390-jane-friedman

AUTHOR OF MAUDE   Interview starts at 15:00 and ends at 44:33 I do have an agent who called me, and he’s representing Maude. She’s been translated into Italian, German, and Russian. He ma...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-389-donna-foley-mabry

CREATOR OF THE EVIL GENIUS CHRONICLES BLOG AND PODCAST   Interview starts at 10:47 and ends at 42:22 This idea that books are exempt from the rules of hoarding, that you’re supposed to be ...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-388-dave-slusher

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR AT PUBLISHERS WEEKLY   Interview starts at 16:57 and ends at 44:32   It’s far from the death of eBooks. eBooks are a permanent part of the publishing industry, for sur...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-387-jim-milliot

PUBLICATIONS SPECIALIST, WYOMING STATE LIBRARY   Interview starts at 20:34 and ends at 38:51   We know that libraries will continue to evolve. The technology is changing so fast. It’s kin...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-386-susan-mark

VICE PRESIDENT - AMAZON DEVICES   Interview starts at 18:29 and ends at 37:47   We spent two days in an off-site with Jeff going through the experience, setting up little scenarios of “O...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-385-charlie-tritschler

FOUNDER AND CEO OF BEELINE READER   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05   They tried it out with the first graders and found that in the control classroom the students’ reading f...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-384-nick-lum

GRAPHIC DESIGNER, AUTHOR, PRODUCT DEVELOPER AND WORKSHOP PRESENTER   Interview starts at 14:57 and ends at 44:47 So whatever you do, you build products that relate to the knowledge that you ...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-383-bruce-jones

AUTHOR OF THE SELECTED POEMS OF DONALD HALL   Interview starts at 12:51 and ends at 43:57   It was a house that my great-grandfather bought in 1865, and the same family’s always lived i...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-382-donald-hall

CREATOR OF THE CUENCA TECH LIFE BLOG   Interview starts at 1:29 and ends at 21:34   I just turned 70, so growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s was very special. Cuenca reminded me of Brookly...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-381-lenny-charnoff-in-ecuador

This is the third of my Ecuador TKC episodes, uploaded today (Tuesday November 10, 2015) from the Ali Shungu Mountaintop Resort in Otavalo. You will hear the owners and hosts at Ali Shungu, Fran...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-380-andes-adventure

This is the second of my Ecuador TKC episodes, uploaded today (Thursday November 5, 2015) from the cloud forest in Mindo at the Sisakuna Lodge . You will hear our Overseas Adventure Travel guide...

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I am posting Friday's episode of the podcast very early, on Monday, this week from Quito, Ecuador, because tomorrow we leave for the Galapagos Islands where there will be little if any Interne...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-378-hola-from-ecuador

JEFF BEZOS, FOUNDER AND CEO OF AMAZON Highlights from my interview recorded on July 26, 2012 , at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle   THE PRE-TRIP CONVERSATION  My wife Darlene, her sister...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-377-jeff-bezos-2013-and-ecuador

CREATOR OF KINDLE NATION DAILY AND BOOKGORILLA   Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 39:45   Of the top 100 bestsellers in the Kindle Store for the entire year of 2014, 91 of those books w...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-376-stephen-windwalker-0

This is another test of my mobile podcasting gear, two days before we leave for Ecuador. I am hoping the photo of Claire and me shows up with RSS feeds.  For audio, I used 44:58 of recording f...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES’S PUBLISHING INDUSTRY REPORTER   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05   For the people that are price sensitive--if you’re not somebody that reads digitally be...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-375-alexandra-alter

VICE PRESIDENT AND PRINCIPAL ANALYST AT FORRESTER RESEARCH   Interview starts at 14:38 and ends at 41:53   It’s not about Amazon Echo, it’s about putting microphones in various contexts...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-374-james-mcquivey

GENERAL MANAGER OF AMAZON’S KINDLE SCOUT   Interview starts at 16:58 and ends at 44:45   It’s really the best part of the job. There isn’t a day that goes by that I’m not either ext...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-373-dina-hilal

LINKS RELATED TO AMAZON’S 2015 FALL PRODUCT LAUNCH IN SAN FRANCISCO Amazon news releases on the new $50 Fire tablet , the new Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 tablets , new Fire Kids Edition , new Fir...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-372-amazon-fall-product-launch

AUTHOR OF BROWSINGS: A YEAR OF READING, COLLECTING, AND LIVING WITH BOOKS   Interview starts at 15:46 and ends at 42:34   My main attraction to a Kindle is only age-related. If my vision d...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-371-michael-dirda

AUTHOR OF THE WELL-PRESENTED MANUSCRIPT   Interview starts at 12:13 and ends at 42:27   There are some wonderful stories that I just can’t enjoy, because the author has done such a poor ...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-370-mike-reeves-mcmillan

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR OF BOOKS AND KINDLE AT AMAZON.COM   Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 39:15   On The Story of the Lost Child: I think this is going to break Elena Ferrante out as a b...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-369-sara-nelson

FOUNDER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF SIX COLORS   Interview starts at 17:44 and ends at 42:27   I hope the E Ink readers stick around, because I do love them. But it’s going to be a niche mark...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-368-jason-snell

I am experimenting with iPhone apps that may enable me to post episodes of the Kindle Chronicles while Darlene and I are in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands this fall. I won't bring my MacBook A...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-mobile-test-a

CREATOR OF THE FIONA GRIFFITHS CRIME SERIES   Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 37:59   Whoever heard of a retailer offering 70 percent royalty? It’s never happened before. How’s ...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-367-harry-bingham

CREATOR OF DISPATCHES FROM THE FRAT HOUSE   Interview starts at 14:23 and ends at 40:20   I’d like to write the kind of book that I’d like to read. And immediately there’s that thing...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-366-carie-harling

EDITOR OF TELEREAD   Interview starts at 11:26 and ends at 37:11   Even if all the publishers remove DRM from every eBook they sell tomorrow, I would be the vast majority of Amazon Kindle ...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-365-teleread-editor-chris-meadows

AUTHOR OF LET’S GET DIGITAL AND LET’S GET VISIBLE   Interview starts at 16:56 and ends at 44:39   If you look at stores like Barnes and Noble and Kobo and Apple, I don’t think they’...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-364-david-gaughran

FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF INDIEREADER.COM   Interview starts at 11:46 and ends at 41:02   It’s very hard to tell a self-published book these days from one that is traditionally published....

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-363-amy-edelman

MY WIFE THE AMAZING ART QUILTER AND KINDLE ENTHUSIAST   Interview starts at 14:08 and ends at 39:48   A friend of mine said, “How many times have you dropped a Paperwhite in the tub?” ...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-362-darlene

PROJECT MANAGER AND TKC LISTENER   Interview starts at 13:52 and ends at 39:03   I have the books that I read, and I read the books that I have. The ones that I collect now are meaningful t...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-361-john-sullivan

AMAZON’S SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT - KINDLE   Interview starts at 10:17 and ends at 42:35   My guess is that if you asked all the publishers with whom we’ve reached agreement in the last ye...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-360-kindle-senior-vp-russ-grandinetti

AUTHOR OF BARRIO IMBROGLIO   Interview starts at 14:24 and ends at 38:38   There’s an incentive for Amazon on two levels to say, “Hey, let’s try to bring in readers.” And one way ...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-359-daniel-cubias

Author of The Underwriting   Interview starts at 19:39 and ends at 39:40   I was a first-time novelist; I didn’t have a name at all. So it was a great way to find my audience before I tr...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-358-michelle-miller

PROFESSOR AT LE MOYNE COLLEGE   Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 44:15   If it keeps your attention, and you’re enjoying it, and it’s making you think—that’s the book for yo...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-357-prof-krystine-batcho

INTRO Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback, 1993) by Scott McCloud    INTERVIEWS AT DENVER COMIC CON (Times show when each interview begins)   Andy Mithun of the Stubby S...

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AUTHORS OF THE STRAIGHT-A CONSPIRACY   Interview starts at 13:10 and ends at 41:52   What the brain science says is that if you’ve learned one thing, you can learn anything. If your brai...

http://sites.libsyn.com/18990/tkc-355-hunter-maats-katie-obrien

AUTHOR OF SHADOW WORK: THE UNPAID, UNSEEN JOBS THAT FILL YOUR DAY   Interview starts at 21:13 and ends at 39:30   Becoming aware of shadow work enables us to prune away some of the clutter...

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INSERT PHOTO OF CUTE DOG HERE   I have tweaked my workflow for uploading new episodes of the show and want to make sure it works before I begin creating TKC 354 this week.  If you see thi...

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Director of the Isaacson School for New Media, Colorado Mountain College Presentation starts at 5:32 and ends at 43:55 In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin wrote, “The illiterate of the future will n...

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Author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now Interview starts at 13:37 and ends at 36:56 I remember a long time ago when Timothy Leary saw one of my first books, Cyberia or something, an...

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Founder of Write Our World Interview starts at 19:15 and ends at 39:47 The necessity of writing a book requires that they talk to the elders in their communities or other people who can help the...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6467

Links NMX New Media Expo in Las Vegas Tom Webster of Edison Research Monthly podcast listening statistics from Edison Research – February 15, 2015 Power of Moms podcast Mark Ramsey’s Media Un...

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Director of Content at Wattpad Interview starts at 17:50 and ends at 37:37 I think that Wattpad’s a great place for people to be able to tell their own experience and their own story. We’re ...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6432

Co-authors of Transcendence Interview starts at 8:31 and ends at 38:29 As an historical upward swing, people can view all this as ways of increasing our ability to share information and ideas an...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6426

Software Quality Engineer in Santa Clara, California  Interview starts at 13:06 and ends at 39:32 So if you have Evernote installed on your Fire, then it will be one of the options. You can put ...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6413

Founder and CEO of Pebble Technology Corp. Interview starts at 7:54 and ends at 19:50 What we found is that as long as you’re open, and the watch is an open platform, people will hack on it, pe...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6406

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Interview starts at 17:05 and ends at 40:13 I think the problem with the written word is that it is so easy to generate and—no disresp...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6382

Editorial Director, Amazon.com Interview starts at 17:17 and ends at 38:50 Dead Wake: Well this is Erik Larson, and if Erik Larson told me somebody had tied their shoes in an interesting way, I t...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6371

Editor-in-Chief of TeleRead Interview starts at 17:22 and ends at 39:20 If large-screen smartphones were going to replace the tablet, I would assume that I would start seeing people working on th...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6361

Co-founder of Blue Ink Review  Interview starts at 17:15 and ends at 43:24 The people who are putting out quality books in self-publishing are actually investing quite a lot, because most books�...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6350

Illustrator and Author of You Are (Not) Small Interview starts at 14:32 and ends at 37:56. Chris: Anyone with kids who watches someone read for the first time—I never would have realized how ma...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6344

Author of Mobile Strategies for Digital Publishing  Interview starts at 13:21 and ends at 37:37.  There may not be a lot of new readers coming into the eReader space, but it’s a device that�...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6339

Author, entrepreneur, maker of ruckuses Interview starts at 4:33 and ends at 14:50. Paper books are going to gradually and painfully and very, very slowly disappear. They’re going to become lik...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6324

Author of The Martian Interview starts at 11:39 and ends at 38:29 More people bought it from Amazon than downloaded it for free from my site, which just goes to show you how deep into the market ...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6329

Amazon’s senior vice president for Kindle We can all observe the fact that in every single digital media category subscriptions is playing an important role—in music, in movies, in newspapers...

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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 peop...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6269

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:...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6261

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 fan...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6256

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...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6247

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 ...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6227

Co-founder and CEO of BitLit.com Interview starts at 14:02 We do continue to see growth amongst more of the older generation, the Boomer generation, on font size, on convenience. As Boomers ret...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6218

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 yea...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6213

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...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6208

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 lesso...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6198

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 negotia...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6184

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 sy...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6175

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 ...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6165

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 sk...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6148

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’...

http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=6138

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 i...

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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 man...

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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....

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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, ...

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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...

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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 ...

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Amazon’s Director of Student Programs Interview starts at 15:59 Everything that’s available on Amazon is available at the Purdue Student Store. The way to think about it is, once you’ve act...

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Author of Born Reading (with daughter Olive) Interview starts at 11:27 I knew then that I had come up with a pretty good mix. I knew she had a print book that she liked, and I knew she had an a...

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Editor of TeleRead Interview starts at 18:34 I think Amazon has done a better PR job. I think that they’re going to end up getting what they want, because I think Hachette needs them more than ...

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CEO of Safari Books Online Interview starts at 20:55 I don’t have any firsthand knowledge about how things have looked on the Kindle Unlimited side, though it’s certainly notable that for now...

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Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla Interview starts at 9:23 I don’t think their market is people who don’t have a smartphone now. I think it’s people who have some version of a...

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Novelist, Journalist, Author of “I Murdered My Library” Interview starts at 23:05 I was sitting, reading this novel on my Kindle. And I thought, actually, this is a perfect medium for this p...

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Creator of TeleRead and LibraryCity Interview starts at 15:48 Everyone, I think, would be better off if we replaced DRM with either no “protection” at all, or else social DRM, which in this ...

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Contracts Attorney and Creator of The Passive Voice blog Interview starts at 22:32 “Predatory pricing” sounds good to people who don’t really understand that law very well. But I don’t s...

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An 8-year-old Kindle reader Interview starts at 15:56 You can take a photo and put it on the Kindle of yourself. You would never get to do that to a book, probably! Show Notes and Links: News Ful...

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Dave Limp, Senior Vice President – Amazon Devices Interview starts at 27:17 A good example of a use case on reading, whether it’s the autoscroll in a web page or autoscroll in a book, is on a...

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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,  te...

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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. ...

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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 enco...

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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...

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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 chang...

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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 v...

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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...

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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 Enjoyi...

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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 pu...

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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...

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This morning I am doing final preparation on 32 donated Kindle Keyboards for shipment to Marines aboard the USS Germantown. If I've done my Googling correctly, that's a photo of the ship above. I...

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I have interviewed scores of authors about their books for the Kindle Chronicles podcast, but I can't remember a book that has excited me as much as the one that you will hear about on next week'...

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  Vice President / Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and author of the forthcoming Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation  Interview Starts at 11:46 Trying to sue yo...

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I finished Stephen King's Kindle Single, Guns, over lunch. It's a highly original take on the debate over gun control, so I don't think it was fair of me to dismiss it in the previous post as a ...

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The press release announcing Stephen King's new 99-cent Kindle Singles essay, "Guns," emphasizes how fast a major author can get his or her ideas into wide distribution because of eBook technolog...

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I remember that one of the first things I noticed about the Kindle Fire HD was how much better the text-to-speech voice was on it, compared with text to speech on the Kindle Touch. The voice was ...

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Amazon today announced that the Kindle Paperwhite WiFi and 3G models and the basic Kindle are available to customers in Canada at the Amazon.ca site. In addition, Canadian customers can now acces...

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Start times for interviews: Jeremy Greenfield - 6:27 Mike Shatzkin - 8:46 Michael Tamblyn (Kobo) - 7:14 Heather Severson - 8:22 Paul Biba - 17:30 Michael David Burleigh (OverDrive) - 24:05 Show ...

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Last panel at Digital Book World is named "Libraries: More Important than Ever for Discovery." The moderator is Barabara A. Genco, manager, special projects, Library Journal. Panelists are Stepha...

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This panel is titled "Making Content Searchable, Findable, and Shareable: Tools and Best Practices to Improve Discoverability." Panelists are Matt MacInnis, CEO of Inkling; Linda Holliday, CEO of...

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This panel at Digital Book World's conference is titled "The Evolving Author-Publisher Relationship: how Publishers Are Powering-and Empowering-Authors Today." The moderator is Peter McCarthy of ...

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Mike Shatzkin moderates the final plenary session at Digital Book World. The panelists are Chantal Restivo Alessi, chief digital officer at HarperCollins; Simon Lipskar, president of Writers Hous...

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Next up, Sharon Lubraro , general manager and VP at Bowker, and Len Vlahos, executive director at Book Industry Study Group (BISG). Click on headline of this post to see my updates.

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Good to hear from Barnes & Noble today at Digital Book World. Here is what Jim Hilt, VP of eBooks at B&N has to say about discovery.  Click on headline of this post to see my live blog updates. ...

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Peter Hildick-Smith is founder and CEO of the Codex Group. He is talking about how people find books. "We talk to book buyers all day long." Click on the headline of this post to see the live upd...

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Michael Tomblyn, chief content officer at Kobo is next at Digital Book World. Click on headline of this post to see updates.  

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Hugh Howey, author of WOOL, and Kristin Nelson, agent at Nelson Literary Agency, interviewed by Mike Shatzkin at Digital Book World in New York City.  Click on the headline of this post to see l...

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Day 2 of the DBW conference begins with a survey by Writer's Digest of thousands of authors. The presenter is Phil Sexton, publisher and community leader at Writer's Digest. To see the live-blog ...

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I'm gearing up for the final session of Day One at the Digital Book World conference in New York City. Teddy Goff, digital director for Obama for America, this morning gave an overview of how the...

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Hello from the New York Hilton, where the Digital Book World conference is under way. I will live blog the sessions this morning, featuring presentations by Mike Shatzkin, James McQuivey and Tedd...

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I plan to live blog here for the upcoming sessions at the Digital Book World conference here in New York. To see the live updates, you will have to click on the headline for this post - the updat...

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YouTube viewer BobbyKempBigBand has asked how the Kindle Fire HD looks in sunlight as a reading device, so I did a comparison of it with the Paperwhite yesterday morning in bright Denver morning ...

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Note from Len: I am pleased to pass along this email from my friend Jean Remple on the topic of how to brew a perfect pot of tea. When I told Darlene that I wanted to buy two porcelain pots she i...

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I want to highlight the following comment that I received this morning from MitchM regarding my deep Kindle reading in a salt room this week: Wow, what a cool room, made entirely of salt. Probabl...

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Author of The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? Interview Starts at 21:15 Walking through Union Square Market in New York or in an airport, no one comes up to me and says, "I read Free P...

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(Cross Post from E-Books for Troops)     Incoming Kindles in Denver awaiting preparation for shipment to Troops overseas   During 2012, we distributed 282 Kindles to U.S. military units deploy...

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The home screen of my Kindle Paperwhite comprises a single page (see above.) Hidden in my collections are three novels, two inspirational books, eight nonfiction books or articles, and one volu...

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Is it really going to take a year for me to read a single book? Apparently so, when the book is War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I purchased my 99-cent Kindle copy on February 16, 2012, and I am 79...

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First, I want to thank Kindle Chronicles listener Guven Witteveen for his email recommending that Darlene and I take a tour of the Celestial Seasonings plant just up the road in Boulder. We drov...

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If you are a book lover who prefers an E Ink device to a tablet, I bet it's because there are fewer distractions on a Kindle Paperwhite 3G  or other dedicated eReader. I feel the same way. I lov...

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I have started reading a new book by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch titled APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur - How to Publish a Book and it looks terrific. I have been a big fan of Kawasaki's e...

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A month ago I switched from coffee to tea. Darlene and I were at a cooking class taught by Warren Kramer in Brighton, Mass. As an aside, Warren made a statement that nudged me to action. All it t...

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Shantanu Bala, creator of Ebook Glue, a new tool for creating eBooks Interview Starts at 18:15 A lot of writers are already formatting their content and arranging their content for their blogs a...

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Garrett Riley, creator of A Tech Grab Bag Interview Starts at 16:21 The great thing (about Kindle FreeTime Unlimited) is that you can set time limits. I know a lot of parents listening to this  ...

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David Lynn, editor of The Kenyon Review Interview Starts at 18:16 What I realized a couple of years ago about my mission with The Kenyon Review is not to make money but to have the great work we...

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Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director, Digital Book World  Interview Starts at 17:19 I think publishers right now are focused more on their authors and more on authors in general than they have ...

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Today only, Amazon is selling the Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ for $50 off. Click here for details. You simply enter promotional code FIREHD89 at checkout. There is a limit of one per customer, U.S. c...

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Click Here to see the video.  1. How to get the Kindle for Microsoft 8 App on your Microsoft Surface Store -> Search for Kindle -> Install -> Register to your Amazon account 2. What you can do o...

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I've had a ball playing with the Microsoft Surface, which I like quite a lot. Any time a gadget forces me to learn a new interface, I get excited. I'm not tempted to replace my 11-inch MacBook Ai...

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Cross-Post of my Kindle Nation Daily Contributing Editor's Column November 30, 2012 A blind alley is closed at one end. It leads nowhere. Why on earth would you ever want to go down one? Russ Gra...

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Evan Ratliff, cofounder, CEO and editor of Atavist Interview starts at 18:53 We publish through the Kindle Singles program, usually. Our stories are all nonfiction. They are between 5,000 and 30,...

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News - 1) Amazon announces record Kindle sales on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. 2) Just in time for the holidays, a $1.5 million bonus is added for Kindle Direct Publishing authors enrolled in...

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Amazon today served up a jolly seasonal bonus for Kindle Direct Publishing authors who are taking advantage of the Kindle Select program. At midnight Seattle time, the company announced that it w...

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(Cross Post of my Kindle Nation Daily Contributing Editor's Column) November 23, 2012 The general manager of Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, remembers two women who came into the ...

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News - This week marked the fifth anniversary of the introduction of the first Kindle. Five years later, The Los Angeles Times reports on a prediction that the Kindle Fire HD will outsell Apple'...

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(Cross Post of my Kindle Nation Daily Contributing Editor's Column) But for eBooks, war fatigue might have kept Brian Mockenhaupt from publishing a story that should never be forgotten. A former ...

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A weekly podcast about the Kindle and eBooks with in-depth conversations with guests--authors, technology experts, book industry analysts, Amazon execs, educators, agents, readers, and more.

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News - Is the Kindle adding $9 billion to Amazon's market valuation?  I hope so! Tech Tip - How to offer your blog to the Kindle Store for subscriptions. Thanks to Charles Hugh Smith , autho...

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News - My own exclusive scuttlebutt which leads me to believe Amazon will start shipping the new version this month, ahead of the official announcement in February. Tech Tip - Ever wonder how m...

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The second half of my interview on Dec. 31, 2008 with tech blogger and columnist Mike Elgan . Part 1 is contained in episode 24 of the Kindle Chronicles.

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News - New subscriptions available for the Kindle: USA Today and Narrative Magazine .  Also, new Kindle market intelligence from The New York Times .  A million Kindles sold?  Not according t...

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News - Rand McNally introduces a Road Atlas specifically designed for the Kindle. Featuring a brief telephone interview with Joel Minster, Rand McNally's senior vice president and chief cartogr...

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News - Publisher's Weekly puts Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos on its cover as "Person of the Year." Tech Tip - No worries, yet, about ever being charged 10 cents when you convert a .pdf or o...

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News - Via Mike Elgan and HotelChatter.com , we learn that the famed Algonquin Hotel in New York City is loaning Kindles to guests.  Jan Zlendich of The Kindle Reader blog notes that 46 of t...

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News: The Kindle is sold out just in time for Christmas.  Will the one I ordered today turn out to be a Kindle 2.0 ? Should Amazon say so ? Also, a secret New York Times memo reports more than...

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News - In a TechFlash Q&A, Ian Freed says no to video on the Kindle. Tech Tip -Igor Skochinsky's motherload of Kindle tech stuff. Interview - Sriram K. Peruvemba, Vice President of Marketing...

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News: Thanks to listener Linda Hopkins, we learn from Amazon that Kindle samples are NOT designed to timeout. Tech Tip: How to put 2,000 classics on your Kindle using MobileReference (thanks t...

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News: Case of the disappearing Kindle Store sample, from Joe Wikert's Kindleville blog. Tech Tip: From David Emberson's Kindle Cookbook , a clever keyboard shortcut that zooms you through boo...

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News: The Motley Fool asserts that Oprah has saved Amazon. Tech Tip: What are those white boxes to the right of some items on the home screen? Interview: Dave Emberson , author of The Kindle ...

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Kindle News: Oprah gets behind the Kindle in a big way , including a $50-off coupon good till November 1st. Also , Amazon reports that 10 percent of its total book titles sold are in Kindle for...

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Interview: Abhi, creator of the Amazon Kindle, Books and Amazon News Blog and the Kindle Social Network for Book Lovers , talks to me from London and details how you can win a free Kindle if you...

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Kindle News: Faked Photos or a real look at the Kindle 2? Tech Tip: A recent newbie (me) walks you around the Kindle Korner Yahoo group. Interview: Laurel Hicks, a moderator of Kindle Korner....

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Kindle News: Forbes gets it wrong on the iPhone v. the Kindle. Tech Tip: How to find out there's no Whispernet in Missoula, Montana. Click here for Sprint coverage map. Interview: My wife, Da...

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Kindle News: Amazon passes a milestone with 180,000 titles available in the Kindle Store. Tech Tip: A light for reading your Kindle in bed when your spouse is trying to sleep. Interview: Jim C...

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Kindle News: Forbes reports on two more would-be Kindle Killers from Plastic Logic and iRex Technologies . Tech Tip: My 79-year-old mother's clever idea for printing a Kindle page didn't pan o...

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Kindle News: Kindle snags exclusive for new biographies of Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain.  Jim Cheshire's Decoding the Kindle is released. Tech Tip: How to highlight a section of text which...

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Kindle News: Andy Ihnatko's possibly prophetic piece in Macworld titled, "How Apple Could Make e-books work and why Steve Jobs could do what Jeff Bezos hasn't." Tech Tip: How to put your Kindle...

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Kindle News: We have fresh rumors of new student-oriented Kindle models coming as soon as September from Andrea James of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Peter Burrows of Business Week's The ...

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The "What's on Your Kindle?" interview this week is with Joe Wikert , creator of the Kindleville blog and vice president & executive publisher within the Professional Trade Division of John Wile...

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This is the .mp3 version of episode 5 featuring an interview with Joe Wikert.

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This is the .mp3 version of Episode 4, which features a "What's on Your Kindle?" interview with Bill Bulger, 74, in active retirement after serving for 17 years as president of the Massachusetts ...

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This week's "What's on Your Kindle?" Interview is with Bill Bulger , 74, a legendary Massachusetts politician from South Boston who served 17 years as president of the state Senate and 7 years as...

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This is the .mp3 version of this week's episode featuring a "What's on Your Kindle?" interview with author Stephen Windwalker.

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Kindle News: Electronic newspaper readers in Germany and France , as well Dave Lester's Treeless Systems project in Denver that I profiled in a podcast two years ago. A rosy view of the Kind...

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The "What's on Your Kindle?" Interview: A telephone conversation with C.C. Chapman , who runs a digital marketing company called The Advance Guard and is host of the Accident Hash , Managing the...

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mp3 version of Episode 2 featuring "What's On Your Kindle" interview with C.C. Chapman.

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On this debut episode of The Kindle Chronicles, the "What's on Your Kindle?" interview is with The Onion 's web-and-election wizard Baratunde Thurston , a comedian and blogger who offers great s...

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On this debut episode of The Kindle Chronicles, the "What's on Your Kindle?" interview is with The Onion 's web-and-election wizard Baratunde Thurston , a comedian and blogger who offers great s...

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Len Edgerly, a graduate of Harvard College (1972) and the Harvard Business School (1977) has worked as a business journalist at The Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin, editor of an energy magazin...

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