The Kindle Chronicles

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 the people who believed in me and my book, and they've been so wonderful to work with. I do feel also that Little A is a tiny imprint within a huge company, so I kind of get the best of both worlds--that personal T...

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 boys who have been turned off of reading, they get a Kindle, and the Number One thing that they do is they bump up that text size, because they don't like it to be so small, so they can really feel like they're ac...

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 about difficulty I was having in the book with a character. She said to me, 'If you know the question, you do know the answer.' That was really helpful, because what that told me is that if I could articulate wha...

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 about the ideas, the stories, the concepts that you read about. That's actually a good metaphor for Goodreads and Kindle. Kindle is where you read alone. Goodreads is where you go talk about what you read." News "Tr...

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 digital. I was one of those who came out and said, 'Why?' What you need to be doing is expanding your brand. People know your brand. Don't think about shoe-horning the magazine or newspaper into this new--wheth...

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 - March 15, 2018 "Despite some glitches, VR cinema takes a leap forward at SXSW 2018" by Omar L. Gallaga at the Austin American-Statesman - March 15, 2018 "Wyoming's Blockchain Bills: A Very Personal Labor of Love" by Cai...

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 what passes as literature today will not stand the test of time, because there's no story in the story. You have 350 pages of a character examining his navel and having interior monologue, and that's just not the...

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, particularly the customer obsession and innovation which I was seeing externally. As I came through the hiring process and since my first day that has been the reality. And so I just really love how the company obsess...

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 along with just straight reading." News "Amazon plans to open as many as six more cashierless Amazon Go stores this year" by Jason Del Rey at Recode - February 22, 2018 "Prime Members Now Earn 5% Back When Shopping...

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 (13:27 to 21:40) Felix Lloyd , cofounder and CEO of Beanstack (21:44 to 30:53) Harvard (MA) Public Library David Burleigh , director of brand marketing and and communication at OverDrive (30:57 to 40:23) Overdrive's...

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 phrases in [Kindle] books that have been highlighted 300 times or a thousand times. I try to make my phrases be like those phrases, because I've gotten to know what are the powerful phrases that people are going to high...

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's the dark shape that howls in the night outside the cave or something that drags a club around or sea monsters--humanity always wants to defeat the monster. To do that we have to try to identify and understand it....

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 focus on the customer experience, in terms of our focus on eBooks and driving growth in eBooks." News Amazon Go video "Amazon Go: convenience and concern at new checkout-free corner shop" by Mark Harris at The...

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, if there is something that I don't quite understand, I'm not going to say, 'Oh, that's not related. We'll take it out.' I'm going to ask for more. Show me how this is all of us." (Photo by Stephanie Land) News A...

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 was all of that that made me want to be a writer. I thought it would be the most amazing thing if out there in the world somewhere there was a kid reading something or an adult for that matter that was really get...

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 Goodreads as well. And then they would just show up in your notes and highlights with the name of the person who you were following. I think that would be really cool." News "Another big Amazon acquisition, a Pelot...

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 about that, and they end up writing a story where at the end of it, it's like 'Okay, you saw a spaceship, and then you thought to call the police and then you decided whether you should call your friend, and the...

Doubledecker Bus Driver in London Interview starts at 11:20 and ends at 39:30 "The [Fire HD] 8 will be my Kindle that travels with me. I take it to work. We're not allowed to have them in the cab for fairly good reasons. They don't want anything that will distract you from the job of driving." News "The Kindle changed the book business. Can it change books?" by David Pierce at Wired - December 20,...

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, and the incumbents will spend four or five years resisting before they realize that they have no choice. Whereas a little proactive customer obsession on the part of any of those companies could probably make it...

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 [in Australia], and I'm sure CASA [Civil Aviation Safety Authority] would have something to say about that. They're coming up with rules for drones and some of that stuff. So I don't see that happening here any time soon." News "Australian retailer...

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 to be words come out of your mouth, and that's how you engage the computer rather than typing on a QWERTY keyboard or moving a mouse." News "Amid Takeover Talk, Barnes & Noble Posts $30 million Q2 Loss, Stock S...

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 industry and immediately we share a common bond, this passion for bringing books to readers. It's not unique. It is really wonderful to stand in a room full of people who are putting everything on the line toward...

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 got better each time. So our second Kindle was developed more quickly, and now as you know that team is launching Kindles and Fire TVs and Fire tablets and Echos and more every year." News Amazon Key "Amazon wil...

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 [Publishing] in the literary world at large. I do think that for my book it's been really interesting working with them and being able to answer those questions [about audience] and also to challenge myself more about how do I see this book existing in the world and what kind of s...

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 editors and our publisher, Fred Ryan, run the business. He intervenes only occasionally. The first meeting he had when he came to The Post , he said, 'I don't know what's going to work, but I want to lengthen th...