The Kindle Chronicles

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-New Kindle Oasis Kindle Select , Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Next Week's Guest David Ignatius , Washington Post c...

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 should be out there running in your big body, because maybe you're going to hurt your knees or your back. You don't know. You don't know me. I don't know you. You do your run, I do my run. And then we'll all be happ...

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 October 5, 2017 in New York City: Starts at 7:22 and ends at 9:48 Hany Ghali phone/skype interview from Sunnyvale, California, on October 10, 2017: Starts at 20:26 and ends at 41:06 To purchase an all-new Kindle O...

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 around us. And the more we share it one person to another, the more we realize we're really all the same. We really share an experience of life on the earth that is not just mine or yours but that belongs to us al...

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 Amazon has ideas about how little publishers about the business of books. And I think that they're both wrong." News "Introducing the Next Generation of Echo" - Amazon press release September 27, 2017 All-new E...

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 what can grow and harvest is well beyond what you ever could have planted if you had known." News Amazon press release announcing all-new Fire HD 10 - September 19, 2017 "Amazon is working on smart glasses to hou...

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 you found three things to put on your wish list and two books that you want to buy for your Kindle, then we're very, very happy." Intro Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine September 15, 2017 hosted by...

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 are so many different ways that can work. You can read a book on your phone--a ton of people read books on their phones. They read them on the web, they read them on an eReader of choice--they can read E Ink, they...

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 and Lizzie the person who knows the glass is totally empty and that you're just imagining any water. I don't know what keeps any two people together in a marriage, and I've been married 51 years!" News "'Cortana,...

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 Part 2 Next Week's Guest Nancy Pearl , author of George & Lizzie , her debut novel scheduled for release on September 5, 2017 Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." Th...

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 us had any idea we were going to be heading into this world of carrying big pieces of glass around in our pockets or in our bags that would be so amazing for image-based reading." News "L.L. Bean Beats Amazon.com, On...

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 at Amazon working in books. That's an incredible asset. I'm optimistic that Amazon will continue to be able to hold its own. I also see great opportunity for others. I have a very optimistic view of the future of...

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 important to then have the vision and the resolve to make them come true." News "Is Amazon getting too big?" by Steven Pearlstein at The Washington Post - July 28, 2017 "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" by Lina M. Khan at the Ya...

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 life plus 70 years. In other words, I will get my books back about the time Bernie Madoff gets out of jail." News Amazon earnings release - July 27, 2017   Earnings coverage by Recode and Publishers Weekly Inside...

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 ground for everything public domain. I think Project Gutenberg suffers from that to some extent. They are more of an archival website at this point. Anything and everything that was produced before 1923 gets on there...

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're no different." News "Amazon Prime Day breaks record; sales grew by more than 60 percent" by Lauren Thomas at CNBC - July 12, 2017 (includes video of analyst Jan Kniffen) Amazon press release on Prime Day - July...

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. (You can never say it all.) But this book gets a little closer to the truth in that surfing and Zen are just big characters among many." (Photo by Peter Dawson) News Camino Island by John Grisham "Amazon bookstor...

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 future are all dystopian, and they're afraid. They're worried. And yet the reality, the scientific evidence is that we are much better off today. Any of your listeners are 10 times better off than 10 or 20 years ago...

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 elsewhere is not cutting into our print usage. It's additive, which is really interesting to say. Same with audiobooks. These new formats just seem to bring new people into reading and literature, so that's all to the...

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 not in kind. I don't think we'd see 10x growth in e-books' market share. Maybe there would be 5, 10 percent [growth in] market share. I don't know." News "Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 billion" by Nick...

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 at the size that Amazon is growing as an online retailer. That kind of troubles me, because I feel a little bit like when publishing does get round to direct-to-consumer it will already be too late. " News "Amazo...

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, 'Wow. Look at this. I'm just going to go out and look at my baby.' I think that in a similar way Apple thinks very similarly about computer products. And Amazon, meanwhile, is striking a much more ordinary context, l...

Author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky Interview starts at 3:32 and ends at 42:21 "Not only does the guy [Pino Lella] deserve to be noted for what he did, his story is the story of faith, and the ability to endure, and the ability to go on, and the ability to the best and the worst of life in life . And yet still understand that it's a miracle every day. " News Amazon Fresh delivery in Denver Tech Tips "...

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, working at a secret military base that happens to have a flying saucer, an alien, and a mysterious thing called the harp. No one really knows quite what it does. They instantly fall in love with one another, but the...

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 within e-books that Amazon keeps introducing--whether it's their X-ray feature or Kindle Lending Library or whatever it might be within the e-book world or within the connection with the social-media platform Go...